Rock On
It’s hammock season. The Victorians and Edwardians brought this 16th century maritime necessity to bourgeois backyard, where they swung with abandon. The item neatly enmeshes several threads running through Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: the illicit thrill of reclining, and of swinging,…
Wonders in Watermelon
Encyclopedia of the Exquisite includes an entry on the history of ‘sotleties,’ clever foody creations that mesmerized diners at European Medieval and Renaissance feasts, including the four-and-twenty-blackbirds-baked-in-a-pie of nursery rhyme fame. Only recently, however, did the tradition of Thai food…
Dream Sequence
Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky‘s sublime Polaroids are as dreamy as his films. A few years ago a small book of Tarkovsky’s photographs, Instant Light, came out, to much acclaim. Now two blogs have posted a selection of the best of…
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