Illustration Copyright © 2002 by Yumi Heo. From Henry's First Moon Birthday by Lenore Look.The Getty Gallery at the Los Angeles Public Library is currently hosting, The Image of the Child in American Picture-Book Art, the first U.S. exhibit devoted exclusively to the image of the child in contemporary picture-book art.“Today, more talented artists by far are involved in picture-book making than ever before, with art schools, museums, and galleries most recently becoming devoted to picture-book illustration as an art form,” said picture-book historian Leonard S. Marcus.They exhibit focuses on illustrations of the last ten years and is divided into...
The Where of Reading : Field-Tested Books
Talk about books and technology. Is the book on life support? The reader? Is information going in? or coming out?This fantastic screenprint was designed by John Solimine of Spike Press in an edition of 400 for the recent publication of Coudal Partners' Field-Tested Books. It also serves as the cover art.For over six years now the folks at Coudal have been asking been asking people to send them 300-500 words about a book they read somewhere; a “certain book read in a certain place.”The Field-Tested Books book contains three years of reviews featuring 143 entries from more than 90 contributors....
Wipe Away the Confusion
click on image to enlargePoster designed by Shaz Madani to promote the M25 Motorway in London.Front side "gives exact directions that would have to be taken in order to travel from one side of London to the other illustrating the complexity and confusion involved in taking alternate routes through the center of the city"Back side reads 'wipe away the confusion take the M25"Thanks to pan-dan for the lead
My Morning Jacket’s Beautiful "Librarian"
UPDATE : Here's a video of them singing the song:The highly anticipated new album from My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges, hit the stores this week and on it is a sweet little ballad of desire called "Librarian."Here is a sample of the lyrics:walk across the courtyardtowards the libraryI can hear the insects buzz andthe leaves 'neath my feetramble up the stairwell, into the hallof bookssince we got the interweb thesehardly get usedlooking for a lesson in theperiodicalsthere I spy you listening to the AMradio...it's not like you're not trying, with apencil in your hairto defy the beauty the good lordput...
People Reading
The Spartanburg Art Museum in South Carolina recently opened the doors to its' new location with the powerful exhibition People Reading : Selections From the Collection of Donald and Patricia Oresman. The exhibit is perfectly curated by Thomas L. Johnson, librarian emeritus at the University of South Carolina, and consists of 60 works from the vast Oresman collection which consists of over 2,000 images.Maurice Askenazy PIONEER, 1929 Ink and pencil on paper 2 15/16 x 3 11/16We see people reading books, we see people reading newspapers, we see people reading alone and in groups, in bed and in the bath,...