I called in on the New York Public Library to see the small Anna Atkins exhibition, but also because I had never really paid attention to its beaux arts magnificence. Designed by Carrère & Hastings, it opened in May 1911:-
I called in on the New York Public Library to see the small Anna Atkins exhibition, but also because I had never really paid attention to its beaux arts magnificence. Designed by Carrère & Hastings, it opened in May 1911:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
The excellent – if very long – Frederick Wiseman documentary about the library is now available to rent on line from the BFI. When I saw it at the Barbican earlier in the year it was properly revelatory about the breadth of the library’s work.
Ah, I saw his documentary about the National Gallery, also very long, good in parts, but not all parts. Charles