Library Science
What is so fascinating about looking at other people’s books? I must admit I’m particularly thrilled by this new project to catalog every book in minimalist artist Donald Judd‘s 13,004 volume private library with an interactive online program that shows…
Paris, je t’aime
Today, order because I am missing Paris, find I watched a bit of one of my favorite movies, Cleo 5 à 7, by the only female director of the French nouvelle vague, Agnès Varda. Shot in black-and-white in 1962 on…
Tulipomania
The tulips are blooming everywhere. You probably know something about the legendary obsession with tulips in old Holland and Flanders, a flowery fad based on bulb-price speculation that briefly drove the local economy in the mid-17th century—until the market crashed….
French silk merchant Jaques le Saige was scandalized by the sight of men taking up forks to eat their dinner when visiting Venice in 1518. Forks were a symbol of decadence for centuries, unhealthy used in the 10th century in…
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