CITIES is a monthly column that looks at urban design, development and cultural life. Come back often! New York: Grand Central Station’s Centennial (Feb. 1) is actually a year-long shindig. […]
Apartments and houses in dense urban settings are often unaffordable – especially for young professionals, singles and seniors. A new project in New York City will offer mini-apartments, the size […]
Diversions is new! We will add events, conferences and exhibitions from places around the world on a regular basis. Check back with us. CONFERENCES Feb 6-8, Kansas City (MO): New […]
CITIES is a monthly column that looks at urban design, development and cultural life. Come back often! MOSCOW: Master plan, Malls and Veggie Farm: Here’s a troika of livability […]
Three remarkable photographic projects speak to us of the importance of protecting wild places and the incredible biodiversity of our planet. Each is now transformed into a book or exhibition […]
Audubon’s birds, polar bears, fish, sharks — a selection of natural history favorites from terrific writers such as Dr. E.O. Wilson (author of 28 books!) and Mark Kurlansky (Cod, Salt, […]
The Civil War’s 150th anniversary, Dickens’s bicentennial, the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring. All these are reason enough for updated biographies, groundbreaking research and new works that interpret history and […]
Art and design across centuries: from history of typefonts and the artistic glories of Rome to two new Da Vinci books and bios of Van Gogh, Caravaggio, Titian and cartoonist […]
Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion, Andrew Robinson.(Oxford University) 272 pp. $29.95. A fervent early 19th-century Frenchman, a competitive expeditionary personality, and Egyptologist (a field he helped […]
Our endless love affair with the City of Light takes form in a 648-page photographic essay Paris: Portrait of a City that captures images by Daguerre, Atget, Lartigue, Brassai, Doisneau […]
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