Jan 30, 2004 | Chronicles
Or the Fine Art of Picking Up by Putting Down… Not so long ago, I bumped into an art school colleague, or so I thought… Little did I suspect it was the devil – or at least one of his many advocates – in disguise. Here’s the conversation: “So what are you...
Jan 23, 2004 | Chronicles
Or What You See is What You Get…. Last weekend, while my son and I were waiting to go up to the top of Notre-Dame de Paris (like good tourists, absolutely, I’ve always been drawn despite myself to France’s great remodeller of the Middle Ages, Viollet-le-Duc, and...
Jan 16, 2004 | Chronicles
Or the Amusing and Ambiguous Exercise of Signing Sessions Rule number one: signing books is fun. (Establishing rule number one firmly in your mind is useful after several hours, when you can barely spell complicated names like “Fred” or “John”, and someone with an...
