Feb 2, 2008

Saturday Notes

by Cliopatria

Homer's Odyssey ... in fourteen seconds misses some details. Hat tip.

Holland Cotter,"Artistic Muscle, Flexed for Medicis," NYT, 1 February, reviews"Michelangelo, Vasari and Their Contemporaries: Drawings From the Uffizi," an exhibit that runs through April 20 at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. The Times' slide show is here.

William Grimes,"A Long Surrender: The Guerrilla War After the Civil War," NYT, 30 January, reviews Stephen Budiansky's The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox.

Early Visual Media: A Pictorial Media Archeology is a remarkable archive of vintage visual media: yesterday's photography, early film, television, conjuring arts, magic lanterns, pre-cinema projected animations, peepshows, and other optical experiences. Hat tip. At stwallskull, Steven Stwalley blogs about his Crumbling Paper project, in which he scanned comic strips from the early age of the comics. Hat tip.