In my recent post on the Metz Pompidou Centre, I mentioned Mark Kingwell’s meditations on cities and architecture, particularly his thoughts on thresholds. I suspect Kingwell would have something to say about the location of…
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I’m reading philosopher Mark Kingwell’s mesmerizing book, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City, and it seemed a good time to post more photos from that city I’m homesick for, Paris. . . . just fragments,…
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So sorry for not blogging BUT, since Tuesday I have -flown from Montreal to Vancouver, catching up with Pater over dinner at La Brasserie on Davie Tuesday evening; -ferried (first big ferry, then small) back…
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Added March 16th, thanks to Ling Chan, Assistant to Managing Director for VOA: The manga is drawn by artist Fiona Meng. Rigoletto pictures should be credited to photographer Tim Matheson and the pictures for the…
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1. Had a really pleasant dinner on Friday night at Taki’s Taverna on Davie with a colleague who was in town to take in a Writers Festival event. We had to rush a bit, sitting…
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