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Did Air Pollution Inspire Impressionism? Elaine Velie, δημοσίευση στο Hyperallergic [1/2/2023]
When Claude Monet painted "Houses of Parliament, Effect of Fog" (1899–1904), he was likely depicting pollution, researchers say. (courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia) A new study posits that rising...
Photographer Captures His Journey With Terminal Cancer, Lauren Moya Ford, δημοσίευση στο Hyperallergic [1/2/2023]
From The Proximity of Mortality: A Visual Artist’s Journey Through Cancer by Stephen L. Starkman (2022) (all images © and courtesy Stephen L. Starkman) Stephen L. Starkman’s moving book about his...
The Rise and Fall of the Neo-Romantics, Sarah Rose Sharp, δημοσίευση στο Hyperallergic [31/1/2023]
Fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, editor-in-chief at Vogue and Special Consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Diana Vreeland, in her red Billy Baldwin designed "garden in hell" living room,...
Εκδοχές του Κήπου, Φαίη Ζήκα (Επιμέλεια), Εκδόσεις Νήσος [2022]
"Ο κήπος είναι μια προσπάθεια οικείωσης της φύσης από τον άνθρωπο. [...] Σε αντίθεση αφενός με την αδιαμεσολάβητη ή "άγρια" φύση, αφετέρου με άλλου τύπου καλλιέργειες όπως το χωράφι, το...
In Praise of Complicated Friendships, Isabel Ling, δημοσίευση στο Hyperallergic [25/1/2023]
Cover of Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir (Doubleday Books, 2022) (courtesy Doubleday Books) As a teenager residing in a sleepy suburb near San Jose, California, in the 1990s, Hua Hsu...
Why Do Herbariums Still Fascinate Us? Sarah Rose Sharp, δημοσίευση στο Hyperallergic [18/1/2023]
Copies from the genus Timm’s collections at Engelsberg’s mill, © Engelsbergs Arkiv/Nordstjernan AB, 2021 (photo Lena Granefelt; all images courtesy Bokforlaget Stolpe) Collecting Nature: The History of the Herbarium and Natural...
Silicon Valley’s highly developed sense of self, Elizabeth A. Kessler, δημοσίευση Apollo Magazine [30/1/2023]
The engineers Russell and Sigurd Varian, photographed in 1953 by Ansel Adams (1902–84) for LIFE Magazine with a visually arresting but useless contraption. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust In...
Knives out – the fine art of carving meat, Thomas Marks, δημοσίευση Apollo Magazine [27/1/2023]
A 17th-century playing card showing how to carve a boar’s head. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Skilful carving makes for better eating. That at least was the opinion...