Poster for the First Phalanx Exhibition by Wassily Kandinsky, 1901 porto Bradford's street names and landmarks

Bradford's street names and landmarks haven't changed much in the last 150 years - so it's nice to find your favourite street and imagine what it might've looked like all those years ago

and the surrounding areas with this meticulously detailed map from 1925

revealing the social topography embedded in the road names

or a sophisticated housewarming present—an enduring keepsake of light

Portsmouth (1653) - A historic seaport and popular summer tourist destination

Poster for the First Phalanx Exhibition by Wassily Kandinsky, 1901 porto Bradford's street names and landmarksWassily Kandinskys Plakat fr die erste Ausstellung der Phalanx (1901) introduces us to the artist at a pivotal, pre abstraction moment. Designed to promote the inaugural exhibition of the Munich based Phalanx group he helped establish, this expressive poster captures the turn of the century shift toward modern art. While Kandinsky would soon champion pure abstraction, here he channels the Art Nouveau spirituniting ornament, image, and bold letteringto