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Spies, Lies, Goodbyes and the Quest For Blue

The color blue—one of the rarest colors on earth. It is the color of the sky and sea, of eternity, of divinity. And sometimes the color of death. A color which proved to be at the heart of the race for the most coveted porcelain in the world. In The…
K.L. Romo
December 3, 2018
Miscellany

“On Color” Prompts Us To Think About What We See

David Scott Kastan, a  George M. Bodman Professor of English at Yale University and Stephen Farthing, an artist and elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Emeritus Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, the University of Oxford, have collaborated on this beautiful, and educational book about the…
Jennifer Blankfein
September 24, 2018
Miscellany

How To Judge A Book By Its Cover: 18 Famous Books

Have you ever stopped to think about how your favorite books’ covers were conceptualized? The Grapes of Wrath cover artist, Elmer Hader, made a living illustrating children’s books with his wife, and that’s how John Steinbeck discovered his work. The stories behind some of the most iconic book covers are…
BookTrib
June 8, 2018
Miscellany

Poet, Social Activist and Storyteller Cleo Wade Talks from the Heart

The Cut called her The Millennial Oprah,  Fast Company named her one of the country's 100 Most Creative People of 2017, and with featured articles and photoshoots in Elle, Time, and Entertainment Weekly, it is clear: Cleo Wade is not your average "Instagram poet." A self-proclaimed social activist, poet, artist and storyteller,…
BookTrib
April 4, 2018
Miscellany

Oodles of Doodles: Which type are you?

I knew from a very young age that I was a doodler—in fact, I was a repeat offender. Any time that I had to focus in class, my pen would instantly begin to move across the margins of my three-ring notebook: a flourish of spirals here, a cascade of words…
Amanda Harkness
March 25, 2014
Miscellany

What’s so great about writing by hand?

For most of my young life, I hated my own handwriting. The other girls in my class wrote with such beautiful, rounded loopy script and I envied them, even the ones who dotted their i's with little hearts. My scratchy letters always came out flattened, each one drooping ever closer…
Carrie Padian
January 12, 2014
Nonfiction

The Face: Fornasetti’s Unique Vision Lives On

It’s rare for an artist’s work to transcend time, speaking to each new generation regardless of changing trends. But that’s exactly the case with the work of Piero Fornasetti, an Italian artist whose graphic and imaginative designs feel just as relevant today. Fornasetti lived from 1913 to 1988, creating thousands…
Rachel Carter
September 6, 2017
Nonfiction

A spectrum of creativity: the intersection of art and autism

Instead of narrowing down and defining autism and the art created by those who live with the disorder, in Drawing Autism (Akashic, March), behavior analyst Jill Mullin embraces the full range and spectrum of autism and artistic expression. The rich and varied images she selects show the multiplicity of perspective, processes,…
Kate Rosenbaum
April 22, 2014