The Rookery Building, 209 S. Lasalle (Lasalle & Adams), Chicago 

Chicago Cultural Center (Old Chicago Public Library)

78 East Washington Street (Washington and Michigan Avenue), Chicago IL 

Giveaway Contest: Thanks to the generosity of @harperperennial, we’re giving away all eight of the new, limited edition 2016-17 Harper Perennial Olive Editions! Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these books, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on December 15, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, Harper Perennial has agreed to make this an International giveaway! Easy, right? Good luck!

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away ten vintage paperback classics by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Harper Lee, Walt Whitman, George Orwell, and others. Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on April 22, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away ten vintage paperback classics by James Joyce, George Eliot, John Steinbeck, William Golding, Ray Bradbury, and others. Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) reblog this post and 2) be following macrolit. (Yes, we will check. :P) We will randomly choose a winner on February 15, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2005

Photo by Candida Höfer

See more Candida Höfer posts here.

Art History meme: 1/8 Artists

Édouard Manet, 1832-1883

'It is not enough to know your craft you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more'

Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away ten trade-sized paperback classics by John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others. Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on June 15, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

Claude Monet, Six versions of Arm of the Seine near Giverny (1896-1897)

Mosque, Cordoba Spain

http://www.catedraldecordoba.es

Homo habilis OH 62

(Haeusler & McHenry 2004, Journal of Human Evolution)