Joan Mitchell: An Installation February 8, 2013: [caption id="attachment_60686" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Joan Mitchell, August 1935.[/caption] How does one install a quadriptych painting that is eight and a half feet tall and twenty feet wide? Very carefully! This week we welcome the Poetry Foundation's newest exhibition, Joan Mitchell: At Home in Poetry. Joan Mitchell’s mother [...] by Lindsay Garbutt

Choose your tool: The physical experience of writing December 16, 2010: On the DMLCentral blog, John Jones takes issue with a recent Telegraph article that claims Twitter has made handwriting cool. Besides having nothing to back up the claim ("Twitter" being no more than a stand in for "social media" in general), Jones felt that pitting against each other the two forms of tools, "modern" and "ancient," sets up a false [...] by Harriet Staff