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| Monday, April 27, 2009 | |
 | "Mural Magic: Painting Scenes on Furniture and Walls" by Kline Murals transform an ordinary room into a room with a view. In this book, artist Corie Kline shows you how to take it one step further by incorporating furniture into your mural painting. Designs flow from wall to furniture, injecting the room with imagination and atmosphere.(view more...) |
| Saturday, April 25, 2009 | |
 | "The Last Supper: A Summer in Italy" by Rachel Cusk Oppressed by the claustrophobia of domestic life, a family decides to sell up and go to Italy; to search for art and its meanings, for freedom from routine, for a different path into the future. Award-winning writer Rachel Cusk describes a three-month journey around the Italy of Raphael and rented villas, of the Piero della Francesca trail and the tourist furnaces of Amalfi, of soccer and the simple glories of pasta and gelato. With her husband and two children, she uncovers the mystery of a foreign language, the perils and pleasures of unbelonging, and the strange involvement of the personal and the universal.(view more...) |
| Monday, April 20, 2009 | |
 | "Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican" by Benjamin Blech Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world—the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork.(view more...) |
| Tuesday, April 14, 2009 | |
 | "The Golden Age of Couture" by Claire Wilcox In 1947, Christian Dior’s "New Look" was greeted with both shock and delight, making headlines around the world. Accompanying the exhibition opening at the Victoria and Albert Museum in September 2007, this lavish book focuses on Parisian and British couture between 1947 and 1957, the decade Dior hailed as fashion’s "golden age." (view more...) |
| Friday, April 10, 2009 | |
 | "Once in a Lifetime Trips" by Chris Santella Fly-fish in the virgin waters of the Chilean fjords, arriving by helicopter; navigate Alaska on a boat as luxurious as a four-star hotel but small enough to sail where the big cruise ships can’t; embark on a private-jet tour to the great opera houses in Europe with behind-the-scenes passes: experience the classic links of the British Open. "Once in a Lifetime Trips" is a trove of ideas for travels that are unique, decadent, and off the beaten path.(view more...) |
| Monday, April 06, 2009 | |
 | "Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa" by R. A. Scotti In Paris at the start of a radically new century, the most famous face in the history of art stepped out of her frame and into a sensational mystery. On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened—Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest methods of criminology, including fingerprinting, tried to trace the thieves, a burgeoning international media hyped news of the heist.(view more...) |
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