Those of you interested in the development and reception of modern architecture in interwar Europe may also want to know about my interview with Nick on his recent book on Asplund's Gothenburg law court extension: http://library-cafe.org.   In the coming weeks I will be also talking on The Library Cafe to curators about two current Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center exhibitions, one on daguerreotypes (this Wednesday) and one on Buddhist pilgrimage art. Later this month I will also be talking with Tobias Armborst, principal at Interboro Partners, about the place of design thinking in undergraduate education and Interboro's role in the post-Sandy Long Island shoreline remediation project.   Lastly I will be inteviewing Stephen Eisenman about his book Cry of Nature: Art and the Making of Animal Rights (Reaktion) in May. 

And, coming back around to law courts, Laurence McGilvery's account of his 1962 arrest and trial for obscenity for selling a copy of Tropic of Cancer to an undercover San Diego police officer posing as a student is a must-listen if you haven't done already (also on the site).  For those of you who don't know Larry, it gives you a reason why you should get to know him, and for those who already do--well it is quintessential Larry, and a remarkable (and remarkably funny) story in the annals of quiet heroism and cultural progress.

And finally, friends of the late Rosemary Furtak may like to know these are the last days of an exhibit curated in my library by one of our art majors at Vassar, Grace Sparapani, of artists' books by women artists drawn from Rosemary's personal collection.    A write-up on the exhibit can be found on our library blog here:  http://pages.vassar.edu/library/2015/04/misbehaving-artists-books-by-women-artists-in-the-art-library/  The show features as its centerpiece a work by Rosemary herself, illustrated in the post.

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