via Real SimpleBook Patrol would like to thank everyone for their support and readership over the past year and we wish everyone a happy holiday season..... Photo by Aga Inésand only the best in the coming year!You can see a few more examples of xmas book trees at Booklicious
Illuminating Poetry
The folks at the amazing Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus, who are known for their illuminated installations in public places, are at it again. Back in March we covered their "literature vs. traffic" piece, where they covered a street in lower Manhattan with 800 lighted books. Now they have landed in Madrid.This past October, to celebrate a poetry festival, Luzinterruptus filled 1000 envelopes with poems by some of the participants, added some tiny lights, and proceeded to hang the envelopes in the garden outside the building where the festival took place. At the conclusion of the festival 100 of these envelopes...
Smells Like Book Spirit
Photo: Michael SchmellingArtist Rachel Morrison is spending her lunch breaks these days at the Museum of Modern Art. Her goal: to sniff her way through their entire library and live to tell about it.As a recent study concluded she will encounter “a combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness” in many of the books. She will also encounter many that will make her sneeze and feel nauseas. Her plan is to begin with the first book in the Library of Congress classification system, which in this case is AC5.S4 a 1934...
The Book Piles of Ephraim Rubenstein
Book Pile XXXIII. Oil on linen. 36 x 28 inchesThey've been using books in still life painting for a long time. From the rise of the genre in the Netherlands in the the early 17th century to Van Gogh's Still Life with Bible to Mattise's Still Life, Bouquet of Dahlias and White Book the book has always had a prominent place in the artist's imagination. A solid contemporary example is Used and Discarded Books, a new series of paintings by Ephraim Rubenstein. These biblio-portraits breathe grace and beauty into books that have seen better days. Here the value transcends the monetary, and the seemingly unsteady, teetering piles mirror the...
Haiku by the Road
Roadside Haiku by John Morse is a series of 10 original haiku’s created by Morse and printed on bandit signs.50 signs for each haiku were created and were placed along the various well-traveled roadways in Atlanta.“Morse transforms the familiar bandit sign into a delivery device for poetic snapshots of the urban condition presented and consumed within the brief seconds of stop and go traffic.”Roadside Haiku is the latest from Flux Projects: "An organization supporting artists in creating innovative temporary public art throughout Atlanta. The organization produces new platforms for artistic experimentation that engage a broad audience in their daily lives,...