Book and paper artist Randi Parkhurst looks to the Russian Matryoshka, or nesting doll for inspiration in her recent piece Patience.Patience is comprised of 18 books ranging in size from 7" x 9" to a mini 1/2" x 1/2" and all feature handmade paper by the artist. "Unlike a book with words telling a story, my books tell a story by enticing the viewer to open and explore them. Their rich papers are textured and there are little books nestled inside cubbyholes to pull out and open. My books' 'stories' are about the journey and the surprises along the way."In...
Bibliophiliac Bleeds Books, Seeks Same For Romantic Bloodletting
Spring is in the air - or maybe it's just in my step - with the scent of love wafting back from this coming fertility season all the way from Great Britain and the latest personal ads in the London Review of Books.We provide these as a public service to warm and gladden hearts during this bitter cold snap in the U.S.As always, response box numbers have been deleted to protect the innocently guilty or guiltily innocent.As for you, you're an adult and don't need your hand held - unless for long, slow, candle-lit walks backward on the beach at...
Library’s Letters Reveal The Real Van Gogh
Still Life With Plate Of Onions, 1889, Oil on Canvas.Note the letter and the book. This painting is said to refer to Charles Dickens' remedy against suicide: "A daily glass of wine, a piece of bread and cheese, and a pipe with tobacco."London's Royal Academy Museum and Library will host the city's first major exhibit of the works of Vincent van Gogh in over 40 years beginning January 23, 2010. Curated in conjunction with Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum and Library, the show is entitled: The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters. The letters of Van Gogh, borrowed from...
Rachel Maddow and Seth Myers join READ campaign
The American Library Association has announced the latest additions to its Celebrity READ poster campaign.Progressive talk show host Rachel Maddow and Saturday Night Live star Seth Myers are the latest big names to be posterized.The posters, which go for $16 a piece, help fund advocacy, awareness and accreditation programs for library professionals worldwide while promoting libraries, literacy, lifelong learning, and reading.Maddow and Meyers join a long list of library and reading friendly celebrities and athletes who support the READ campaign. From Yo Ming to Yoda, Bill Gates to Ice Cube, and Tony Hawk to Rachael Ray,the READ poster campaign has...
Sisters In Opium: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Louisa May Alcott
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, radiant opium addict.“I am writing such poems - allegorical - philosophical - poetical - ethical - synthetically arranged! I am in a fit of writing - could write all day & night - and long to live by myself for three months in a forest of chestnuts & cedars, in an hourly succession of poetical paragraphs & morphine draughts.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to her brother, 1843.“Opium - opium - night after night!” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning.“Heaven bless hashish, if dreams end like this!” - Louisa May Alcott, Perilous Play (1869).Of delicate constitution to begin with, Elizabeth...