H/t to Drew Lerman
H/t to TBTP follower Milly R. for sending me a link to this mindblowing animation of Bosch’s painting Le Jardin des Delices, which was created by Eve Ramboz for an eponymous show last year.
Devoted fans have been anxiously waiting for New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to reopen. The museum closed in summer for a four-month $450 million renovation project, and will finally unveil its makeover to the museum-going public today.
The museum now has 30-percent more space with an additional wing, allowing for another 1,000 artworks to be on display. MoMA’s lobby has been opened up, with its museum store being relocated to a lower level and expanded.
During the four month closure, every artwork was taken down to wholly reorganize the museum’s collection. MoMA’s galleries will no longer be defined by individual genres. Instead, they have brought everything together under one circuit, marrying photography, architecture, design, film, painting, new media and sculpture under the same roof.
On a personal note, I have been a huge MoMA fan all of my life. For a few years, I even had a paid family membership—until it got too expensive to justify. When I was in high school, it was one of my favorite places to hang out when I skipped school. So, I look forward to these big renovation projects to discover the changes and improvements.
Those of you who visit TBTP on a regular basis know of my life-long affection for Lewis Carroll’s classic book. I have had many different editions since I was a child, but I have long found Ralph Steadman’s drawings for Alice to be both radical and a refreshing change from the many conventional Alice illustrations that preceded it. If you haven’t seen this brilliant take on the book before, I hope that you will appreciate just how clever it is.
This is one of the first non-Tenniel illustrated Alices issued when British copyright expired in 1907. Pictured in a white pinafore decorated with pale pink roses and grey tights, Rackham’s Alice appears both thinner and taller than Tenniel’s heroine. Muted colors, especially the browns, lend an eerie aspect to Rackham’s drawings of the Wonderland characters and landscape. But if I could have any edition other than a Tenniel illustrated first, it would be this Rackham.
This is a surprisingly nice copy of Pomponii Melae De Situ Orbis Libri III, by Abraham Gronovius. Printed in 1722, the book is about ancient geography and includes some wonderful illustrations and fold out maps to help you learn all about things in the ancient world.
Although the golden age of the zine seems to be over, every once in a while one pops up to grab our attention. I recently stumbled across the first edition of a new UK-based zine titled quite appropriately Weird Walk. The first Weird Walk zine—made by the collective of the same name including Owen Tromans, Alex Hornsby and James Nicholls—is a “journal of wanderings and wonderings from the British Isles.”
The publication aims to examine the odd, unusual and and just plain weird that can be discovered still around the UK, if we just take the time to have a wander and a look. The zine will explore art, history, architecture, archeology, geography, culture, and more, through essays, photographs, and maps.
If you can’t find it at bookstores featuring zines, it’s available on the collective’s website.
Paul Éluard, Le Livre Ouvert III, Editions des Cahiers d’art, Paris, ca. 1944
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