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The Renaissance on W. 57th Street, and Fanciful Creatures at the Met Cloisters

I recommend a fresh visit to W. 57th Street if you haven’t enjoyed the Renaissance lately. Two buildings I passed recently on W. 57th offer two perspectives on the Renaissance style of architecture. The Art Students League of New YorkThe Art Stude...

Teri Tynes
Walking Off the Big Apple

flakkari

“Icelandic culture is infused with stories of travel. When names were needed for modern machines, the technology that enables our imaginations to travel, words were chosen that centred on the quality of roaming. Thus the neologism for laptop is fartölva, formed from the verb far, meaning to migrate, and tölva – migrating computer’; its companion, the external hard drive, is a flakkari. The latter word can also mean ‘wanderer’ or ‘vagrant’. In the end it’s the wanderers we rely on.” From Nancy Campbell’s “The Library of Ice”.

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