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...Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Literature of PedestrianismBy Geoff NicholsonRiverhead Books; 276 pages...
...Lowdown: As rambling and leisurely as a walk through the English countryside, Nicholson's cultural history is confident in its lack of consequence. Essentially a collection of anecdotes, The Lost Art of Walking is buttressed by the sheer fun of said anecdotes - lists of walking-themed popular tunes and miniprofiles of the stroll-obsessed. It's a fruitful topic: walking is so essential to daily life that one can connect the act to almost every and any historical event or human endeavor - battles, expeditions, feats of endurance, or plain old human evolution as we move from crouched primates to upright...
...million gift is not the novelist’s first contribution to the University. She previously donated art related to her controversial belief that a well-known Impressionist painter, Walter Sickert, was the 19th-century killer Jack the Ripper...
Cornwell recently donated more than 50 works of art by Sickert to the Harvard Art Museum. “She would say that these are Jack the Ripper paintings,” said Henry Lie, director of conservation at the Harvard Art Museum...
That person will join a team of several experts in the analytical lab of the Straus Center. The new researcher will continue work currently being done at the center, which focuses on the close examination of art materials to determine artistic techniques and conservation methods. This conservation work is key to preserving the museum’s collections, said Daron J. Manoogian, a museum spokesman...