Year: 2023

Eric Ravilious, “Vicarage in Winter” (1935).SSearching for the mystery of flowers. The joys of Blackletter type. I love this wall-mounted unfolding desk.My Man Godfrey – a truly great movie with a truly great title sequence.I’ve been listening to the newest entry in...

Paper sculpture by Layla May Arthur.SSo much wonderful music coming from my friend and former colleague Shawn Okpebholo, whose “Songs in Flight” – featuring the great Rhiannon Giddens with other brilliant singers – recently premiered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

Johan Hybschmann, Book of Space (2009).Henri Cartier Bresson’s first Leica.Cartier-Bresson was rarely photographed, but somebody got him here.I’ve been listening often to the Emerson Quartet’s performance of Bach’s Art of Fugue. I think the string quartet version of...

Johann David Steingruber’s Architectonisches Alphabeth (1773)MMatt Crawford’s Why We Drive is full of wonderful reflections, like this one:Americans noisily claim the idea of liberty as their own, but the more you see of the world, the more comical this becomes. A...