SEAN: Another week, another really obvious pick. I’ve loved the other Moto Hagio volumes we’ve seen over here, and so absolutely cannot wait for the first volume of Otherworld Barbara, a story so good it won the Japan SF Grand Prize, the Japanese equivalent of a Nebula Award. It’s from Fantagraphics, so should look great too. And an omnibus to boot! ASH: Yup, no question about it. It’s Otherworld…
The Detroit Institute of Arts brings framed reproductions of its most famous works to the main streets and landmark outdoor spaces of Metro Detroit. By reimagining area cities and suburbs as a grand, open air gallery, the project aims to connect with audiences outside of traditional museum walls. For the next three months the communities of East English Village, Cornerstone Village and Morningside in Detroit will host 10 reproductions. The reproduction above is on the Alger Theater 16451 East Warren Ave, right next to the Jefferson Branch Library. The painting is called Mother and Child by Solomon Irein Wangboje, 1960. The art work and locations are listed below.
Blue Madonna-1961. Bob Thompson
16352 East Warren
The Wedding Dance-about 1566. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Wind Basket-16380 East Warren Ave
Head of a Woman-130-160 CE Unknown Artist
Fitness Park Cornwall St and Cadieux Rd.
Judith and Holofernes-1623/1625 Artemisia Gentileschhi
Cadieux Cafe-4300 Cadieux Rd
Seascape: Sunset-1861 Martin Johnson Heade
Messmer Park-17151 Gravier St.
Watson and the Shark-1777 John Singleton Copley
Balduck Memorial Park-5271 Canyon St.
Movement #27-2002-Kwesi Owusu-Ankomah
Balduck Memorial Park-5271 Canyon St.
Fourteenth Street at Sixth Ave-John Sloan
Bike Tech-18401 East Warren Ave.
Fire in a Haystack-1856-Jules Adolphe Aime-Louis Breton
Detroit Diner-17017 East Warren Ave.
Find them all and then visit the DIA and see the originals!
It’s always nice to see one of our profiles become out-of-date for FANTASTIC reasons: Dr. Carla D. Hayden’s nomination as LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS has been approved today!!!
Congratulations, Dr. Hayden! (And congratulations to the Library of Congress, which will finally get to enjoy the first African American Librarian of Congress and the first woman Librarian of Congress.)
Out of Print Clothing had a BOGO sale last week, so I finally got a couple shirts I really wanted. It was hard to narrow it down to 2, but these are both old favorites
On Wednesday, Merriam-Webster caught up to speed with two words people have been using to describe their gender identity for at least a decade, adding “cisgender” and “genderqueer” to its unabridged dictionary. Among the 1,400 words, you’ve probably seen a few of them across Tumblr for a while now
Update: Apparently these additions were too much for some people.
Today in Cool Stuff in the Mail – a new twist on the now-ubiquitous adult coloring books. We’re not entirely sure about this yet; it seems to require a LOT of fine motor skills. But the end result is really pretty!
