One of the consequences of the unparalleled amount of information now available to us courtesy of the Internet is a sort of data paralysis. With so many options and so much to see and read it is becoming an increasing challenge to simply know where to begin. Of course you can search for something on Google but then what? Aside from the politics of search and placement inherent in a Google search, there is simply too much information out there. Enter Lapham's Quarterly. Founded in 2008 by long-time editor at Harper's Louis H. Lapham. LQ removes many of the barriers...
Book Art
text based art has been The visual leaning publisher out of Berlin has just published a compilation of book works by artists The University of Chicago BookworkBrian Dettmer on CBS Evening News
28 cent book bin – Big Fat Whale – Boston Phoenix
28 cent book bin - Big Fat Whale - Boston Phoenix
Books, Blocks and Bullets
On How My Brazilian Library Feeds from Fragments of a Concrete RealityFrom review in the Irish Times on An ominous note is even more clearly sounded in a 2008 sculpture, On How My Brazilian Library Feeds from Fragments of a Concrete Reality. Books and journals about Brazilian architecture and culture are interspersed with polished concrete blocks in stacks like tower blocks. Walk around to the rear of the stacks, look closely and you see that the blocks are studded with embedded bullets: a subtle but very effective image. Books, blocks and bullets are presented as a continuum. Perhaps Garaicoa is alluding...
Invest in Your Library
Next week, for the second year in a row, the entire Seattle Public Library System will close for a week. In Tacoma, Washington an entry-level job opening for a librarian’s assistant drew 548 applicants within the first week of the job posting. The same song is playing In Orange County, California the Fullerton Public Library has taken matters into its own hands. With Libraries need investment