Category Archives: education

A Nice Cup of Tea

Posted on January 3, 2011 by chris

Happy 2011! If you look up ‘tea’ in the first cookery book that comes to hand you will probably find that it is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling … Continue reading →

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Fair Trade/New York Art Book Fair/Book Trust Prospectus

Posted on November 24, 2010 by chris

This year, much of the talk about the New York Art Book Fair seems to be centered on the Fair itself. Fueling some of this talk, whether expressly stated or not, is a simple question: how, in the midst of … Continue reading →

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Ancient Man

Posted on November 18, 2010 by chris

Ancient Man The Beginning of Civilizations Written and Drawn and Done into Color by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, A.B., PH.D. New York. Boni & Liveright. 1920

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On Self Respect

Posted on October 29, 2010 by chris

by Joan Didion Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel … Continue reading →

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The Locked Room

Posted on October 26, 2010 by chris

Imagine this scenario: you are locked in an empty white room. You share this cell with twelve other people, but you are not allowed to speak. You are under constant observation. [...] it is the first day of the 1969 autumn … Continue reading →

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