A little summary of the week that’s just been! Including art history news, DIY tips, exhibition & literature reviews, auction announcements, etc. Email me with your ideas. I’d love to hear from you.     1. Design*Sponge Creates Printable Gift Tags On Monday I featured a roundup of my favourite DIY gift ideas. Design*Sponge is now gifting it’s readers with downloadable gift tags that you can print at home — so now...

…another visit to the Biennial Edward Burtynsky Manikarnika Ghat, Varanasi, India 2013   Last week I posted about my love for Geoffrey Farmer’s Leaves of Grass — this week I’ll take you on a little arm chair tour of Sublime Disruptions featuring the work of Edward Burtynsky, Dave McMillan and Isabelle Hayeur. With an emphasis on creating images descriptive of environmental concerns, the gallery was full of large,...

…and it stormed in! Have you seen the new video for Baby It’s Cold Outside with Idina Menzel and Michael Bublé? It’s an adorable ode to the glitz and glam of the art deco era and it will get you in the mood for the holidays — making this fresh dusting (or dumping rather) of powder more acceptable. Check it out here.    

A little summary of the week that’s just been! Including art history news, DIY tips, exhibition & literature reviews, auction announcements, etc. Email me with your ideas. I’d love to hear from you. 1. Christmas a la Mindy Kaling Mindy Kaling has worked with Far Fetch to curate some really great Christmas cards. Featuring our favourite fairy tales, the .gifs have quotes written by everyone’s favourite tv doctor and can be sent via...

Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red… England has done something monumental to remember their fallen. To mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of English participation in World War I, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red is an installation of 888,246 ceramic poppies planted in the Tower of London’s moat, each poppy representing a British military fatality during the war.   Created by ceramic artist Paul Cummins, with setting by...

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A little summary of the week that’s just been! Including art history news, DIY tips, exhibition & literature reviews, auction announcements, etc. Email me with your ideas. I’d love to hear from you. 1. Gray Malin Photographs London I am probably the last blogger on earth to talk about American photographer Gray Malin on my blog, but boy I love his stuff! He recently visited my favourite city on the planet and documented the experience of...