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Chance unearthing of a famous document reveals the scientist’s attempt to avoid the Inquisition.
The City of Toronto Archives' Spadina Rd. record centre is one of the city's two memory banks. Inside the climate-controlled, fire-proof building s...
For many of us, 2016 has been an especially shitty year, an annus horribilis of epically epic proportions that began with the death of David Bowie (an especially low note for humanity, I think we can all agree on that) and went straight downhill from there, picking up speed before going SPLAT! like an egg on the sidewalk last week. My own personal year of unmitigated Hell had started a few weeks earlier, a year ago today in fact—November 16, 2015—when my good friend, the genius painter, architect and futurist inventor Paul Laffoley died at the age of 75. Like many of Paul Laffoley’s friends and admirers, I was at least gratified to know that he’d died deeply satisfied with his life’s work, and the acclaim his visionary art had seen in recent years from major museums around the world, the result of tireless and heroic efforts on the part of his longtime gallerist Douglas Walla of Kent Fine Art in New York City. In May of this year, upon publication of the University of Chicago Press book The Essential Paul Laffoley: Works from the Boston Visionary Cell, I asked Doug if he’d found anything interesting when...
Massachusetts-based illustrator Peter O Zierlein has been creating work for 26 years most notably for publications including _The New York Times_, _Washington Post_, _Print Magazine_, _Der Spiegel_ and _Die Zeit Berliner Zeitung_. “Symmetry dictates my style. I look for it and find ways to depict something symmetrically,” explains Peter. “I draw with the x-acto knife like a kid cuts a snowflake. I cut into a folded piece of paper, anticipating the outcome when it’s unfolded. Then I scan in the paper cut, colour it and prepare it for print.”
Image 14 of 24 from gallery of National Archives Preservation Facility / May + Russell Architects. Photograph by Kiernan May
Comparison of “flutings” seen in the spectra of astronomical objects. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. November 17, 1887.
