May 22, 2018, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Meticulous free verse: Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés and Ellsworth Kelly “The literary value, if I may say it, of this span of empty space on the page, which mentally separates groups of words or words themselves, is to periodically accelerate or slow the movement, the scansion, the sequence even, given one’s simultaneous view of the entirety of the page…” (Stéphane… read more
December 19, 2017, Filed Under: Art, Featured1George Macy’s illustrated editions of Charles Dickens’s Christmas classic Between July 1937 and March 1938, Nonesuch Press—under the direction of George Macy—set out to publish what it billed as the most extensive collection yet made of Charles Dickens’s writings. It had already been an energetic few years. Macy founded the subscription-based Limited Editions Club in 1929, and the Heritage… read more
December 1, 2017, Filed Under: Art, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Take home a little bit of Mexico with vintage travel postcards Mid-twentieth-century travel materials aimed to depict Mexico as an exotic destination The Ransom Center’s current exhibition Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1945 showcases Mexican art immediately following the Mexican Revolution in 1920 to the 1940s when it entered the American mainstream.
