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A trio of book sculptures by Rosie Leventon
SOMEWHERE A DOOR SLAMMED…. 2009 Rosie Leventon is one of the new-breed of green artists cropping up around the world. Her work is deeply “grounded in a sensitive concern for the natural environment and...
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The original painting of one of the most iconic book images, “The Bookworm,”...
It came to the Milwaukee Public Library in 1972 from the collection of René Von Schleinitz. It was the only item from his “significant collection of German steins, figurines and genre paintings” to go...
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Chris Jordan : “Edge-walking the lines between art and activism”
E Pluribus Unum, 2010, image via Yes! It’s hard not to appreciate the work of Chris Jordan. His work Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (2003 – 2005) and his ongoing series,...
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A Dave Eggers menagerie to help send kids to college
Before the ascent of his writing career, and his publishing career as the founder of the one and only McSweeney’s, Dave Eggers pursued the life of an artist. Eggers returns to the realm of art with an...
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The Digital Side of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reading at a Table. Pablo Picasso, 1934 When word gets out the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the most significant repositories of art in the world, releases 400,000 images into the digital wild...
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Picturing Haruki Murakami’s Women
Portland-based artist Johnny Acurso celebrates some of Haruki Murakami’s most memorable female characters in his triptych painting ‘Murakami’s Women’. “Granddaughter” from Hard-Boiled Wonderland and...
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Books in art help tell the story
‘Madame de Pompadour’ by Francois Boucher, 1756, As many of you who regularly check in with Book Patrol know, the representation of the book in art is one of the cornerstones of our foundation. Over at...
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Norman Mailer does Picasso
Who knew that Norman Mailer had a drawing side. The two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and literary legend also had a penchant for drawing and one of his major influences happened to be Pablo...
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Future Library: Publication date 2114
Scottish artist Katie Paterson is a patient women. Her current project Future Library will take 100 years to consummate! You heard right; a century from inception to completion. Here’s the deal: A...
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Publisher Moves: Rizzoli to take over half a bookshop; Phaidon acquires Artspace
Oxford Exchange Bookshop The race for finding the right mix to compete in the ever changing publishing / bookselling world of the 21st century continues as both Rizzoli and Phaidon make moves to extend...
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Protest Design: Disobedient Objects at the V&A
The act of protest has blossomed into also being an opportunity for tremendous creativity. In the first exhibit of its kind, the Victoria and Albert Museum has gathered a healthy sampling of items...
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Selected Reading with Eric Yahnker
Selected Reading (Core of Conviction), Charcoal and graphite on paper, 100 x 72 in., 2012 Combining deep technical skill with a healthy sense of humor Eric Yahnker’s work relieves much of the...
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Nicolas Grospierre’s Infinite Library
The Never-Ending Corridor of Books The Never-Ending Corridor of Books and the Never-Ending Wall of Books are two components of The Library project by Nicolas Grospierre. Both are installations...
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Good Morning Mr. Orwell Redux
The satellite’s amplification of the freedom of the strong must be accompanied by the protection of the culture of the weak or by the creation of a diverse software skillfully bringing to life the...
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The Constructed Library of Danae Falliers
library58(digitalliteracy) It started innocently enough. While visiting the Rem Koolhaas-designed, Central Branch of the Seattle Public Library Danae Fallier began snapping photos of the iconic...
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R.B. Kitaj: First Series – Some Poets
Charles Olson R.B. Kitaj was one of the most significant painters of the post-war period. His collage-like figurative paintings were a major influence on the British Pop Art scene. Lucky for us much of...
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Cream of Wheat and the Golden Age of Illustration
From 1903-1928 The Cream of Wheat Co. ran a national advertising campaign to promote their “breakfast porridge.” The campaign featured American illustrators and appeared in the leading periodicals of...
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The Literary Portraits of Alvaro Tapia
Among the healthy portrait output of Chilean illustrator and filmmaker Alvaro Tapia reside a neat series of literary portraits. From Poe to Rushdie these captivating portraits remind me a bit of the...
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Susanna Hesselberg’s Underground Library
Every two years on the coast of Denmark the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition takes place. It is the nations largest outdoor exhibition and for this years incarnation 56 site-specific sculptures graced...
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Bookish gems from the inaugural Seattle Art Fair
The first ever Seattle Art Fair is in the books and by most accounts it’s another feather in the cap for the Emerald City. The tech boom with its inherent money showers combined with our proximity to...
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