Archive for September, 2007

Real Sub-Urban Adventure

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

What mysteries lie hidden beneath the streets of Paris? The remains of millions. But the dead aren’t safe, though from whom or from what depends upon your point of view. Check out the battle between the Infiltrators and the Paris Police here at the Times Online: “Underground ‘terrorists’ with a mission to save city’s neglected [...]

In Living Color

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Although we’re used to seeing it in its history-stained, marbled whiteness, we’ve known for some time that ancient Greek architecture such as the Parthenon was painted in bright, some might say garish colors. Here’s more on color in classical art from the Harvard Gazette: “Scholars give us antiquity–the colorized version”. And if you happen [...]