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From our bookshelves, iPods and laptops to your Thursday morning breakfast table, here are our recommendations for the best of recent culture.
"Warhol Live"
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Now through Jan. 18th, 2009 the museum features an incredible Andy Warhol exhibition focused on the influence of music and dance on his art. An enjoyable barrage against the senses, the exhibit includes album covers, silkscreens, photographs, screen tests, previously unreleased audio, you name it...
- Grace Duggan
Log House
Sou Fujimoto Architects
This gorgeous villa, for lack of a better term, is built entirely from lumber logs and yet is still a functional space. Its inhabitants can crawl up to the kitchen, and crawl down to the bathroom. It is probably not the greatest place for entertaining, but who really cares?
- Andrew Throdahl
Justine
Lawrence Durrell
(Faber & Faber, 1957)
The first of Lawrence Durrell's sweeping The Alexandria Quartet, Justine introduces and enraptures readers with the nameless young narrator as he situates himself in one of the world's oldest cities. Slowly seductive and quietly intoxicating, Justine burns with Durrell's crafted prose and philosophy, establishing The Alexandria Quartet as one of the most under-read English works of the 20th century.
- Melissa Marshall
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