John Bennett had some visual poetry on display at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, Jan-Mar 2008, in the exhibit “Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art, and the Book”. Also on display was Vispologee, the Minnesota Center For Book Arts’ “Winter Book” for 2007, which Bennett co-edited, and for which he wrote the introduction. For further details cf: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblevents/brblexhibits.html
March 18th, 2008
Tuesday evening, March 18, the National Geographic channel will be airing a program entitled “How It Was: Secrets of Mona Lisa.” Included in their overview of the research on Leonardo’s famous painting will be Lillian Schwartz’s analysis. Her discovery, first published in 1987, was recently developed further in the book Monna Lisa: Il volto nascosto di Leonardo (Florence, 2007), published in both Italian and English with co-authors Renzo Manetti and Alessandro Vezzosi. The OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library is the home of the Lillian Feldman Schwartz archive.
March 17th, 2008
