by Andrew Hazlett
February 1, 2010
Some interesting links and short items on Art and Design from The New Modern twitter stream and other sources. Architecture President Obama’s new budget would end Save America’s Treasures and Preserve America for lack of “metrics.” [read] Unhappy Hipsters: A new blog invents amusing captions for stark Dwell mag photos [view] via @KateC Mies masterpiece [...]
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by Andrew Hazlett
December 14, 2009
Imagine waking one morning as heir to a major share of the planet: “In 1689, Kangxi, the emperor of China, embarked on a tour to inspect his southern provinces, undertaking a two-thousand-mile journey from Beijing to the cities and towns of the Yangzi Delta and back…” Read more about the Imperial scrolls at Humanities magazine. [...]
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