These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

• BOOKTRYST: The Guild of Women Binders, Bound To Be Great

  “…Match­ing blue morocco dou­blures are tooled with an attrac­tively com­plex cen­tral orna­ment encom­pass­ing con­sid­er­able stip­pling and twenty large styl­ized flow­ers on curvi­lin­ear stems. Vel­lum free endleaves are orna­mented with gilt hearts at the cor­ners, and the top edge is gilt.”
  
  books book­bind­ing decorative-​​art nanohis­tory

• Exper­i­men­tal Phi­los­o­phy: Mere Expo­sure to Bad Art: Exper­i­ment Results

  “We con­clude from these results that mere expo­sure will not always pro­duce an increase in lik­ing for paint­ings. This puts pres­sure on Cutting’s con­clu­sions that canon for­ma­tion is sim­ply a func­tion of cul­tural expo­sure, and that qual­ity is not play­ing a role in artis­tic judgement.”
  
  aes­thet­ics cultural-​​assumptions matters-​​of-​​taste art exper­i­ment

• The Valve — A Lit­er­ary Organ | Mouth­pieces, Mind, and Matter

  “Last month Jane Ben­nett gave a talk at New York’s New School enti­tled “Pow­ers of the Hoard: Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Mat­ter”. She was inter­ested in the ques­tion of whether or not com­pul­sive hoard­ers have a par­tic­u­lar affin­ity for mat­ter, specif­i­cally, the mat­ter of/​in the things they so assid­u­ously col­lect. The pur­pose of this post is to ask a sim­i­lar ques­tion about trum­pet play­ers and their mouth­pieces. Some have only a few, while oth­ers have hundreds.”
  
  col­lect­ing hoard­ing multicriterion-​​decisionmaking soci­ol­ogy psy­choce­ram­ics eccen­tric­ity diver­sity