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Sunday, March 2, 2008

An exhibit for everyman

The Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill has an exhibit, "The ABC of Collecting Everyman's Library," which includes an Alice originally owned by Alice (Liddell) Hargreaves. The exhibit is free and runs from January 17 through March 31: www.lib.unc.edu/spotlight/2008/everymans.html.

From our Australian correspondent: "The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "Sunday Arts" program of 17 February had in its section "Australian Artists of Tomorrow" an item on Adelaide photographer Harmony Nicholas, "a rising star in photography", "exhibiting at Adelaide's "Citadel Exhibition Space" from 6-11 April 2008". Much of her work plays with images from Alice inWonderland. From what I could make out, it involves a grown adult dressed in the part; her blue frock and blondness seems (ironically or otherwise) derived from Disney rather than Tenniel directly." Images can be viewed at http://dalaiharma.deviantart.com/gallery/.

The Design Toscano website has a resin Humpty Dumpty statue for your garden or a very strong bookshelf (it weighs 11 pounds). It's not quite Tenniel, but...