I posted some notes from last night’s Y event with Mos Def on the 92Y Blog. Turns out he’s not just for white people, though folks of all colors will love the new stuff he’s been working on with Madlib. It had Anthony DeCurtis nodding.

Book art fans may know sculptor Jacqueline Rush Lee for her book works like the one above (Cube). She’s been known to kiln-fire old books like a ceramicist to make them expand and petrify, and soak and shape book conglomerations into wheels and cubes.
She’s now working with another traditionally two-dimensional medium: paint. Layers and [...]

I’m not trying to compete with BibliOdyssey or anything (check out his book!), but the digital portion of the New York Public Library’s Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection is something to marvel at and mine for visual treats. Below, a completely random selection of archival rarities. Click them for more detail.
Page design by Georges de Feure, 1900
Illustration [...]

The Y blog received a nice plug in MUG today.
Given the number of performances, talks and events at the 92nd St. Y, you’d expect a blog about same to be compelling reading and viewing (lots of videos). And so it is.