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Great Lawn
I want to rip up our boring lawn and replace it with a flowery mead, the carpet of tiny flowers you find in Medieval paintings and 15th century tapestries. The smallest blooms—birdsfoot trefoil, thyme, hawkbits, ladies’ bedstraw, self-heal, cowslip, viola,…
Up in the Air
The history of giant, fluffy cumulonimbus clouds is discussed in Encyclopedia, but a San Francisco artist has embarked on an especially poetic project, “A History of the Sky.” It is simple, and stunning. A camera perched high on a city rooftop takes…
Bollywood Bombshell
The singularly fabulous Bollywood sensation, Helen, makes a cameo in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite. And why not? She appeared in over 500 Indian films during the second half of the 20th century, shimmering across the screen in a gyrating, hip-thrusting…
Connecting the Dots
Yayoi Kusama, now 81 years-old, is a fascinating woman and a true provocateur. Donald Judd adored her. So did Joseph Cornell. (They were both her lovers.) And in the mid-Sixties, when she put on art happenings in New York, paining…
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