A regular patron of ours has been trying to authenticate a piece of artwork by a particular artist. Today he came in and said that he heard about a series of volumes put together by a gallery, a museum, and a university all working together to create something called a "catalog... reason?" of his works. He said he probably wasn't saying it quite right, but that the word sounded French. Although he knew some of the scholars involved, he had no idea of whose name would be on the cover, or exactly what the title was. Could I possibly help him track down what it was, and possibly get it, or find out who had it? Whew.
It turns out that what he was looking for was a catalogue raisonne, and the idea is pretty cool. The preeminent scholars on, and museums holding collections of a particular artist put their heads together and create a folio of *all* his or her works, so that future discoveries of unknown works can easily be compared against the entire corpus and authenticated... well, maybe not easiLY, but easiER than it would be otherwise.
My other "new thing" is completely random...I've been playing around with the site How Stuff Works, because I've gotten some good reference answers from them lately and wanted to see, well... how it worked. ;) One of the bits on today's front page caught my eye, so I'm sharing. Talk about your dual citizenship problems... find out how citizenship works for a child born on an airplane in mid-flight!
I found this single-page graphic story outline (of sorts) called "Characters for an Epic Tale" on the back page of a catalog for First Second (which is a new graphic novel imprint), and went looking for more. Go look, he's very funny. I can't tell if he has an association with First Second quite yet (certainly, I don't see his name in their stable, or any of his books for sale in their catalog), but I'd love to see more of him and his partner on this side of the pond. :)
So, it's raining again. Bleh.
But on the upside, I got a new rainbow-colored umbrella! It includes one panel of sky blue as well as the seven, yes SEVEN! colors of the rainbow. Poor, neglected indigo is included, and I am geek enough to admit that this was a factor in my choosing this umbrella. (Not THAT big a factor. My other choices were straight black, black-and-beige, or navy-and-blue. Say it with me again: Bleh.) Liz protested the inclusion of indigo in the list of colors, as it is neither a primary nor a secondary color, and so it was that I discovered Sir Isaac Newton's nefarious meddling in our color scheme.
So, this entry is brought to you by the colors indigo, puce (I'd always wondered just what it was), and barn red. And if those aren't enough colors for you, well, take your pick !!! Summer is slipping past (which is fine with me, as I like autumn much better anyway), and it's a grey sort of day. Liven up your life. :)
(And for those who are keeping count... what's my second new thing, you ask? Read back, silly, it's puce. ;)
