Art - The Burdock Leaves Speak, and Janet Malcolm Listens - NYTimes.com

“Burdock,” a book with 28 photographs and a two-page essay by Ms. Malcolm, is to be released on Aug. 11 by Yale University Press. It can be read in a number of ways. As the next step in an […]

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The Elizabethan Snail Mount

The viewing mount at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (see previous post) is of particularly illustrious ancestry, being a type favored by the Elizabethans who conferred upon it a typically emblematic meaning.
Sir Francis Bacon’s garden (c. 1620) had ‘in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents, and alleys, enough for […]

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The week in wildlife | Environment | guardian.co.uk - Annotated

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Sze Tsung Leong - Photography - New York Times Annotated

“Canale della Giudecca, 2007” in Venice as photographed by Sze Tsung Leong.

By PHILIP GEFTER
Published: April 6, 2008

THE soft-colored photographs of Sze Tsung Leong capture contrasting landscapes: the verdant green of Germany; the mirage of shimmering towers in Dubai; the urban geometry of Amman, Jordan; the […]

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Pruned: Landscape Hints Annotated

Discovered recently are these digitized before-and-after landscape illustrations of Humphry Repton, the prolific and influential English landscape designer of the 18th and 19th centuries, taken from what must be the only complete online facsimile of his important texts.

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A quick word about these two images, for they are hilarious. The landscape […]

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