Culture

Bella Italia © Nina Buesing Corvallo

Today we went to the Italian consulate, which is housed in a beautiful Beaux Arts building on upper Park Avenue. When I entered the bathroom it was clear that someone had just snuck in a cigarette break in the loo, but more importantly I noticed that even in the WC there is a bidet!

Sunday This & That

In The Pink Forest © Nina Buesing Corvallo

- Read (and see) an article about Camilla Engman's work titled The Animal People Have Always Been There at www.thejournalmag.org.

- If you like to read about photography and photographers read: Vicky Goldberg's Light Matters published by Aperture.

-Listen to: Nicolas Kristof on Journalism and Compassion at www.being.publicradio.org - which originally aired this morning.

- Look at Vivane Sassen's Parasomnia and Charlotte Dumas' Paradis.

-And more pictures form Europe's Le Grand Froid, collected in a post titled As Cold As Ice: Suffering & Beauty in Frozen Europe at: www.blog.chasejarvis.com.