Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future - Oscar WildeI remember when I was first introduced to Oscar Wilde. It was the late 1980's and I was spending a semester studying in London. My roommate was a serious fan of The Smiths, especially the lead singer Morrissey. There is this famous lyric in their song Cemetery Gates where Morrissey croons :A dreaded sunny dayso I meet you at the cemetery gatesKeats and Yeats are on your sidewhile Wilde is on mineSo naturally, my roommate, a young twenty-something from a little town in Wisconsin, had a copy of Oscar Wilde's Collected...
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The Electrolibrary
Talk about going from the page to the screen.Now with the Electrolibrary your printed book IS the computer interface! Inspired by noted Russian artist El Lissitzky the Electrolibrary is the brainchild of Waldek Węgrzy, a student at Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland.Here is how it works:The book can be browsed as any other regular book but when connected to the computer via USB, by turning pages, you can navigate through the website, getting additional information, quotations, movies and animations appropriate to the currently open page.The content of the book is Waldek’s diploma thesis discussing phenomenon of a book as...
Happy Birthday L. Frank Baum
His fairy tale changed our world -Did you know how he came up with the name "OZ"? They were the letters on the last draw of his filing cabinet; O - Z.Here are 5 collectible Wizard of OZ items; a game, a map and three books including one signed by the cast of the film, currently available through our friends at Biblio.comWONDERFUL GAME OF OZ. Salem: Parker Bros. (board copyrighted 1921). This is the original Oz board game in the cardboard box. The box has a gorgeous chromolithographed color plate on the cover showing Dorothy standing in front of the Tin Man and...
Jane Freilicher: Painter Among the New York Poets
Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery, 1952. Photo: Walter SilverOn the heels of their successful 60th anniversary exhibition, “Painters and Poets,” The Tibor de Nagy Gallery features a showing of the work of Jane Freilicher.Titled Painter Among Poets, the exhibit takes the same format and approach as it predecessor in closely examining the pivotal role of the painter among the poets, in this case The New York School. Freilicher "was not only the poets’ closest friend and confidante, she was also their muse," she is the Jane in title of Frank O’Hara's noted series of “Jane poems.”It will be the first exhibition to...