Seeing Things
The articles that I published in the Village Voice from 2002 through 2005 can be accessed through the Seeing Things archive.
When I started Seeing Things, I wrote: "Ever since I can remember, I’ve had three particular passions: children, especially pre-literate children (the subset of human society containing the densest population of poets); how people say what they say and the multiple (often ambiguous) meanings that lie behind the words; and looking at things. These loves have spawned my work: writing books for the very young; oral history projects; writing about dance and the visual and decorative arts. Electronic publication opens new horizons for writing. That’s why I’m here."
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The RÉUNION DES MUSÉES NATIONAUX (The National Museum Association's Photographic Agency) offers a photographic catalogue of some 200,00 holdings of French museums. It can be searched by artist, country, period, subject, and so on. You can make a personal album of your favorites on the site. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and D.C.'s National Gallery have similar services, but the French one is the most ambitious and extensive. Text in English as well as French.
AddALL is an ultimate umbrella for finding used and out of print books online. It doesn't have the atmosphere of Foyle's, Powell's, or even the Strand, but it will give you every opportunity to need yet another bookcase.
PROJECT GUTENBERG More books. No bookcase required. Over 6000 free electronic texts.
CALLIGRAPHY LESSONS ONLINE Learn the italic hand and make yourself legible. Don't miss the animation.
Color charts of HERBIN INKS. If you have to ask, you'll never know.
THE NEW YORK TIMES Because it's there.
AJ Blogs
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Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
rock culture approximately
Rebuilding Gulf Culture after Katrina
Douglas McLennan's blog
Art from the American Outback
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude
dance
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
Tobi Tobias on dance et al...
media
Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
Martha Bayles on Film...
music
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
publishing
Jerome Weeks on Books
visual
Public Art, Public Space
John Perreault's art diary
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog
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