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Canadian Celtics

Jan 16, 2009 | Chronicles, Out & About

Or Empires Within, Empires Without Yes, I realize the title sounds like the name of a lacrosse team (but it’s only to insure that my compatriots read this.) Nevertheless… A summer ago, I spent a few days in Toronto giving a little talk at IdeaCity and shooting a...

Catching up in Kyiv

Jan 16, 2009 | Out & About

Or Thoughts Along the Dnipro Early last December, looking out the hotel window at the blowing snow, I thought “Well, I’m in Kiev.” Every time I end up in some out-of-the-ordinary place, it takes my mind a while to catch up. Landing in the Ukraine at 4 pm it was...

Saint’s Haloes and Mouse’s Ears Part IV

Jan 1, 2009 | Chronicles

SAINT’S HALOES AND MOUSE’S EARS PART IV Or Northern Lights, Baroque Solutions and Back To The Future Painters of the Northern Renaissance for the most part seemed to have continued as before or simply dropped haloes altogether, rather than trying to adapt them to...