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Also, reading this article about Ste Murray’s photographic work, and sahred by @architecture, I have learnt that the Brunswick is tuning 50:
As an admirer of Brutalist architecture, Bloomsbury is one of my favourite areas in #London.
It has some of the finest gems of #Brutalism including the spectacular Brunswick Centre.
IIIF ConsortiumJoin us on Wednesday, February 22, at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET / 5:00pm GMT / 6:00pm CET for the next #IIIF Community Call, featuring #Madoc users and developers.
Call-in information on the Community Calendar👇: https://iiif.io/news-and-events/#call-calendar
Ash NoodleThe Victoria and Albert Museum is looking for young people aged 18 – 26 living in London to take part in a free Digital Fashion course in March at the V&A. This pilot programme will teach you 3D design skills for fashion and how to showcase your digital collection on a virtual stage.
Free Digital Fashion Course at the V&A – Creative Opportunities | UAL
https://creativeopportunities.arts.ac.uk/competitions/free-digital-fashion-course-at-the-va/ #fashion #london #digitalFashion #free #course
Leo CadoganXenophon (Florence, Filippo Giunta 1516) with annotations by EL GRECO. Toledo, Museo del Greco.
Daniel Bellingradt 
The #Schreibkalender was a paper-based material artifact resulting from complex and specialized publishing and printing processes, and also a document of handwritten interaction. Within the typical dual content of the "Kalendarium" (containing astronomical information and astrological details) and the “Prognostikum" (containing longer stories on historical, political and religious topics) the owner/reader was offered space for individual remarks, observations, and comments. And ...
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Open Culture (Official)The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery
A New Online Collection Presents All of the Original Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels
https://www.openculture.com/2023/01/the-charles-dickens-illustrated-gallery.html
The Charles Dickens Illustrated Gallery: A New Online Collection Presents All of the Original Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels
At the height of his fame, Charles Dickens could have commanded any illustrator he liked for his novels. But at the beginning of his literary career, it was he who was charged with accompanying the artist, not the other way around.
You see a black square representing the nothingness that was prior to the universe. This square was printed with a wood block in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica..." (1617), and is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum". Fludd's pre-universe idea was aware of its visual limits of representation in a book. That's why all directions have a "And so on to infinity" remark.
Access the page: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/gbbychu2/images?id=gzy3gujm
v_i_o_l_a... also available in English: "Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities" https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6570-3/towards-a-new-enlightenment-the-case-for-future-oriented-humanities/
