Nave of Gaudí’s La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona
Recent links of note:
Chile Will Erect Antoni Gaudí’s First Building Outside of Spain
Laura C. Mallonee, Hyperallergic
La Sagrada Familia still isn’t finished, but a chapel the Catalan architect designed in 1915 is finally coming to life.
Loss and Gain
James Matthew Wilson, The Weekly Standard
David Yezzi, poet of ‘urbane detachment,’ is also TNC‘s poetry editor. His distant gaze falls upon all our lyrical submissions.
The Definition of a Dictionary
Stefan Fatsis, Slate
“Creating a new Unabridged Dictionary gives us the opportunity to revisit the biggest questions of all […] What is it that ought to be said and shown about the words in the dictionary? What should we talk about when we talk about words?
Might at the Museum
Bob Colacello, Vanity Fair
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s big, new move into 20th-century art—propelled by Leonard Lauder’s recent $1 billion gift of 81 Cubist masterpieces—is altering the balance of power among New York’s biggest museums.
Beard of Egypt’s King Tut hastily glued back on with epoxy
Brian Rohan, Associated Press
This, my friends, is why we need trained conservators. Support your local museums!
From our pages:
Eighteenth-century regulation
Andrew Black
Tracing the history of threats to free speech.