Libraries Archives

5 09, 2018

Dreams, yesterday and today

By Humanities Watch|2018-09-05T14:54:25-04:00September 5th, 2018|Academia, Arts, Europe, Everything Else, Language, Libraries, Literature, Nature, Philosophy, poetry, psychology, Quotes, Religion, science, Writing|5 Comments

How dreams have affected our reasoning and reality, then and now.

6 08, 2018

Foundations of learning (Martin Oehlen, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger)

By Humanities Watch|2018-08-06T09:36:28-04:00August 6th, 2018|education, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, Museums, News, science, Technology|0 Comments

The hidden bases of learning, not only literary, beneath our feet.

4 07, 2018

Capturing time in elegant space (Cameron Laux, BBC Culture)

By Humanities Watch|2018-07-04T11:45:32-04:00July 4th, 2018|Arts, education, Europe, History, Libraries, Literature, News, painting, Philosophy, Photography, Writing|0 Comments

The artfulness of library spaces in their effort to capture time and history.

17 02, 2018

Sourcing Shakespeare in cyberspace (Michael Blanding, NY Times)

By Humanities Watch|2018-02-16T18:49:38-05:00February 17th, 2018|Academia, Debate / dialogue, Everything Else, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, News, Philosophy, poetry, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Cyber-sleuthing appears to uncover a new source for Shakespeare's plays.

4 01, 2018

Digitizing the pathways of publishing (Jennifer Clark, Wall Street Journal)

By Humanities Watch|2018-01-03T14:53:42-05:00January 4th, 2018|Academia, business, education, Europe, Everything Else, Exhibits, History, Libraries, Literature, News, STEM, Technology, Writing|0 Comments

By digital demonstration, researchers discover how publishing pathways and networks spread literacy among various social and economic classes.

18 09, 2017

The Two Gardens

By Humanities Watch|2017-09-20T19:24:28-04:00September 18th, 2017|Academia, Arts, Asia, education, Everything Else, History, Libraries, mathematics, Observations, Philosophy, psychology, science, Technology, U.S. / Canada|1 Comment

Do gardens display the course of time, or a timeless science?

29 07, 2017

Finding the words in a sea of literature

By Humanities Watch|2017-07-28T20:39:19-04:00July 29th, 2017|Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Libraries, Literature, poetry, Videos, Writing|0 Comments

Samuel Johnson charts the history of language to create a monumental work.

8 07, 2017

Out of the woods: no trees at the library

By Humanities Watch|2017-07-08T08:00:09-04:00July 8th, 2017|Academia, Arts, Debate / dialogue, education, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, Libraries, Observations, painting, Philosophy, Religion, science, Writing|1 Comment

The Vatican City correspondent deliberates on the absence of trees at the library.

18 11, 2016

Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston (September 2016 – January 2017)

By Humanities Watch|2016-11-18T21:30:10-05:00November 18th, 2016|2016, Academia, Arts, Europe, Exhibits, Libraries, Literature, Other Sites, Recommendations, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston: three venues showcase the rich store of imagination in Europe before modernity. From the description: The exhibition presents more than 260 outstanding manuscripts and printed books from nineteen Boston-area collections, dating from the ninth to the seventeenth centuries. h/t Roberta Morosini

6 11, 2016

Coco Chanel and the Art of Reading: Exhibit in Ca’ Pesaro, Venice

By Humanities Watch|2016-11-06T08:02:18-05:00November 6th, 2016|2016, Europe, Exhibits, Fashion, History, Libraries, Museums, November, Other Sites, People, Recommendations|0 Comments

Coco Chanel and the Art of Reading: Exhibit in the Ca'Pesaro, Venice, through 8 January 2017. From the description: From Greek authors to modern poets, Gabrielle Chanel’s abundant library reveals the works that left an impression on her life and shaped her personality.... This dialogue through the ages, from antiquity to her contemporaries, is underlined in particular by [...]