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Ohio Cartoonists

Posted on January 24, 2008 by

During the summer and early fall of 2003 The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library featured the exhibition Ohio Cartoonists – A Bicentennial Celebration shown in the Philip Sills Exhibit Hall of the William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library, The Ohio … Continue reading →

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Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design

Posted on February 4, 2007 by Bibi

Last year, the Victoria and Albert Museum of London presented the exhibition Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design. This exhibition is now closed, says the exhibition main page. However, some very interesting parts of it still on-line: exhibition themes, … Continue reading →

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La photographie humaniste

Posted on February 1, 2007 by

From the Bibliothèque nationale de France La photographie humaniste (the Humanist Photography): 1945 -1968. The beginning of photojournalism in France in the 1930s, when the photography started to win more space in the press, the first press agencies and the … Continue reading →

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The Book As Art

Posted on January 26, 2007 by

For me books are more than a way to discover incredible things, to get whole new world of culture. Books have a story, books make history, books left good memories to us. And the images… ah, I love books with … Continue reading →

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Bound for Glory

Posted on January 9, 2007 by

The Guardian Unlimited Do not adjust your screen talks about the excellent exhibition Bound for Glory: America in Color, 1939-1943 from Library of Congress. Bound for Glory: America in Color is the first major exhibition of the little known color … Continue reading →

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Godzilla Conquers the Globe

Posted on January 4, 2007 by Bibi

In 2004 The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture made a very interesting exhibition about Godzilla. Godzilla Conquers the Globe: Japanese Movie Monsters in International Film Art, has images of posters, lobby cards, theatre programs, press books, illustrations by Utagawa … Continue reading →

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Art Craziest Nation Inventory

Posted on March 9, 2006 by Bibi

Art Craziest Nation Inventory is the on-line version of the past exhibition at Walker Art Gallery. The Little Artists (John Cake and Darren Neave) immortalize iconic artists and their artworks in un-manipulated Lego. The recreations include works of Warhol, Dali, … Continue reading →

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Dodos in Pictures

Posted on February 21, 2006 by Bibi

The Finnish photographer Harri Kallio took shots of dodos in their lush natural habitat for his last book The Dodo and Mauritius Island: Imaginary Encounters, and since I can’t resist dodos, the book is now in my Amazon wish list. … Continue reading →

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Not by Bread Alone

Posted on January 15, 2006 by

Not by Bread Alone: America’s Culinary Heritage explores the influences and inventions that have shaped American food habits over the past two hundred years. On-line exhibition highlights rare books, photographs, menus, and other early documents that trace the history of … Continue reading →

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Karl Waldmann

Posted on January 2, 2006 by

If you live at Bruxelles here is a good option of activity: go to the Galerie Pascal Polar and visit the current exhibition Karl Waldmann & Constructivisme Russe. This German artist made more than 900 works dating from 1915 to … Continue reading →

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