Word: detailism
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...kept from Ahmelman's family to spare them further distress, Crane explains. "Sometimes decisions are correct, sometimes incorrect," he says of what happened that day. "I've heard somebody suggest they should have immediately crossed the median strip and headed back to the (fortified) Green Zone. A personal security detail that did that got blown up four days previous to the incident...
...brought to life in a short video, through which the viewer is taken on a fly-through. The Late Gothic paintings lend themselves astonishingly well to this modern technique-it's hard not to feel chilled by the snowy February "landscape." "The Limbourg brothers are about graphic and atmospheric detail," says Pieter Roelofs, curator of the exhibition. "It is the painstaking art, often with one-hair brushes, of re-creating the world they saw on parchment." And indeed, in all 35 miniatures that are assembled, it's the details-the facial expressions of the cavaliers and ladies on a hunt...
...shows four out of six surviving manuscripts, which the brothers illuminated while in residence at the Paris court from 1400 to 1416 - the year all three died, presumably from the plague. It also places the works in the context of contemporary art, which demonstrates a conscientious interest in small details and animal anatomy, quite new at the time. Unfortunately, the museum couldn't have it all. Les Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame (circa 1410-12) is at Paris' Bibliothèque National and is too fragile to travel, and the brothers' most famous work...
...ambitions seem justified given the surprising commercial success of other graphical memoirs set in dangerous or mysterious locations, such as Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis books, about growing up in revolutionary Iran, and Joe Sacco's Balkan war series, including the recent War's End. Those books combine the personal detail of autobiographical literature with you-are-there visuals in an altogether new kind of non-fiction. Pyongyang clearly belongs in this class...
...tour group. He greeted me happily. I am sure that for moments he felt out of place, uncomfortable by the fact that he had to play the unfamiliar role of minority. However, he took as many pictures as possible and discussed the tour guide’s statements in detail. Most importantly, he understood that the centuries of injustice that took place in the Castle are his history as much as they are mine...