|k| clippings: 2014-07-13 — Salmagundi Sunday

It’s Salmagundi Sunday, where I share the “best of the rest” — great links that didn’t make the cut for last week’s newsletter:

• Book sales in France remain strong. Why? Mostly because of set book pricing and steep limits on discounts.

• Paul Klee’s Notebooks, a two volume set long out of print, are available free for download.

• 500 years of female portraits in 3 minutes. Also, Women Listening To Men In Western Art History.

• “I am not encouraging productivity […] I value the moments in my life that are productive […] but only the ones that are productive and also present.” An interview with Alexandra Horowitz an seeing and being present.

• Considering the complex question of the posthumous life of an artist’s lesser, or even spurned, work.

• Diseased Gardens shares “Dark (Weird) Fiction” from Belgium and France.

• Studio Swine creates beautiful sculptures and household objects made from hair and natural resins.

• From stacks of colored pencils to beautiful sculptures.

• More cities should have benches that are also clever book sculptures.

• Charlie Haden, jazz bassist who played with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett (among many others), died on July 11.

• “Rock Stars’ Ex-Lovers Move Beyond Their Historical Footnotes”.

• David Sedaris and his FitBit.

• Piece of Cake explores the intersections and connections of type and still life.

• Recipes and advice from The Thug Kitchen. For dessert, Bad Girl Scout Cookies.

Back to business tomorrow…

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