Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty Jon Day on Hoardiculture:My father has always denied that he’s a hoarder, but that’s what all hoarders say. When I emailed him a picture of the CIR [Clutter Image Rating] and asked him to rate his study, he said he thought it was...
How to revive a wilting workforce.
The headline says, “How medieval carpenters are rebuilding Notre Dame”, which is dumb, because no medieval carpenters are alive today – people don’t live 700 years, duh. The the story is fascinating, about how (let’s get this right) craftsmen trained in medieval...
Michael Heizer’s megasculpture, “City” – about which I am immensely skeptical … but I think I have to see it, if only because of this: “The whole gestalt thwarts a culture of Instagram selfies, something Heizer is especially proud of.” And because Heizer has been...
How love overcame the inertia of public policy and saved millions of lives.
Wendell Berry, from Life Is a Miracle:The language we use to speak of the world and its creatures, including ourselves, has gained a certain analytical power (along with a lot of expertish pomp) but has lost much of its power to designate what is being analyzed or to...
A lovely page describing the conservation by the Getty Museum of a Roman sarcophagus. An essay by a photographer explaining why his most faked-looking photographs aren’t fakes at all.In 1960, The Atlantic featured a big report on the proposed rebuilding of London,...
A 17th-century woman’s will.Richard Seal – seen here with candidates for Salisbury Cathedral’s girls’ choir, the first such choir in an English cathedral, which had previously had boys’ choirs only – has died at age 86.Elena Urioste and Tom Poster play Donald Grant’s...
Kapoor and Kiefer at the 59th Venice Biennale.
An illuminated manuscript from eighteenth-century Pennsylvania – beautiful full-sized image here. How Guernica flopped: “By nearly every measure, Picasso’s huge, dark painting stalled at the starting gate. Le Corbusier, the architect who reviewed all the murals at the...
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