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...headquarters are scrambling to keep the servers up, application developers are releasing their latest builds, and ordinary users are figuring out all the ingenious ways to put these tools to use. There's a kind of resilience here that is worth savoring. The weather reports keep announcing that the sky is falling, but here we are - millions of us - sitting around trying to invent new ways to talk to one another...
...Museum is part of the complex of buildings that comprise Belgium's Royal Museums of Fine Art. But the sober-minded setting is something of a deception: echoing the artist's mischievous streak, the museum's windows have been replaced by realistic paintings of plump clouds against a blue sky...
...like Hergé, Magritte created his art for mass consumption and strived to reproduce it as widely as possible. One of his most emblematic images is The Empire of Lights, a mysterious and disturbing juxtaposition of a housefront lit by a streetlamp set under a daytime sky. Magritte painted it 16 times in oil and a further seven times in gouache. "Magritte's focus was on images and the spread of ideas," says Michel Draguet, Director General of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. "He was obsessed with the idea of mass representation, and he loved seeing...
Pomp and circumstance has quieted to a whisper and graduation hats no longer silhouette the sky. Family and friends join together in restaurants for celebratory feasts and at one dinner gathering in Faneuil Hall’s Union Oyster House, the seemingly impossible happens. The ink still wet on their diplomas, two friends–the potential leaders of our future–share in a dialogue alongside several visionaries of centuries past. The illustrious guests, graduates from schools of philosophy and schools of hard knocks, contemplate tomorrow while still baffled by today...
...with promise. A person in a New York office building was calling me. The digits ended in a round number. Probably a very big office building. An important person who worked in a big Manhattan office building wanted to talk. This person could see great stretches of earth and sky from where he sat, and surveying all that landscape, had wisely decided to call me. The assembled members of the Adams family, their portraits hanging on the room’s walls, looked on approvingly...