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This Artist Put 2,500 of Her Favorite Books in a Massive Rotating Library on Miami Beach – Smithsonian Magazine
This Artist Put 2,500 of Her Favorite Books in a Massive Rotating Library on Miami Beach – The 20-foot-tall installation, titled “Library of Us,” featured titles that hold personal meaning for British artist Es Devlin—who invited visitors to sit on nearby benches and read
By Ella Feldman – Daily Correspondent, December 8, 2025
Visitors look at “Library of Us,” an installation by British artist Es Devlin, during Miami Art Week. Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty ImagesA glowing triangle that rotates like the needle of a compass in a pool of water on the beach might not be the first thing you imagine when you picture a library. That is, unless you’re at Miami Art Week.
British artist Es Devlin’s dazzling installation, “Library of Us,” includes 2,500 books that hold personal meaning for Devlin, who also works as a set designer and has collaborated with artists like Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga. The book collection—color-coded to create a rainbow gradient—contains everything from childhood favorites to plays Devlin has created sets for.
The 20-foot-tall bookshelf, which sits on the sands of Miami Beach, explores “how we build ourselves out of what we read,” the artist tells the New York Times’ Nazanin Lankarani. “It’s an experiment in seeing through the eyes of others.”
The bookshelf was commissioned by Faena Art, a nonprofit that often funds large-scale installations during Art Basel inside and nearby the beachside Faena Hotel. The organization celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
“I thought it would be great to invite Es because she’s bold, magnificent, strong and magical,” Argentine developer and collector Alan Faena, the founder of Faena Art, tells the Times.
“Library of Us” invites members of the public to step onto its slowly rotating platform and, if they’re so inclined, pick up one of the extra volumes placed on a long curved table, sit down on one of the installation’s benches and read. The installation also features an LED screen stretching across the library and projecting lines from the books.
The library’s compass-like form was inspired by Italian novelist Umberto Eco, who described libraries as “a compass of the mind, pointing us in the direction of new explorations,” Devlin tells Artnet’s Sarah Cascone.
Quick fact: What is Umberto Eco famous for?
The Italian writer is best known for his novel The Name of the Rose, a murder mystery published in 1980.
A voracious reader, Devlin says she reads as many as 300 books in one year. When her installation concludes, she plans to donate the books to Miami public schools and libraries so others can read them, too, reports Artnet.
But some of the 2,500 books Devlin selected have been banned from some schools and libraries across the country, including in Florida. She says these bans helped inform her project, which features many titles with different viewpoints sitting side by side on the shelves.
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I had to choose these for today's #MurderEveryMonday title with a word denoting finality.
The Portuguese title is an expression used at the end of a theatrical play meaning the curtain drops (although a literal translation would be the cloth drops). The cover uses a Magritte painting and a drawing of Poirot. It seems depicting Albert Finney as Poirot from the 1974 film The Murder in the Orient Express, but I can't be sure. What do you think?
I bought the English edition second hand many years ago and it came with two newspaper clips, there's a date by hand, but no indication of the newspapers titles.
Check Kate's post to know more about the hashtag https://crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com/murdereverymonday-theme-list/#agathachristie #poirot #crimefiction #readings #favoritebooks #books
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Happy Johannes Cabal Appreciation Day to all who celebrate this fantastic necromancer of some little infamy.
The author Jonathan L. Howard doesn't post here, but shared this on Bluesky:
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📚 James Baldwin on Giovanni's Room (1956) 📚
I just finished Giovanni's Room and it has found a space on my favorite books of all time list. Perhaps I should have read this novel 40 years ago when I was in my mid 20s - but I'm not at all upset that I only discovered it now. I'm sure that it resonated in quite a different way for this 60 something single man.
#jamesbaldwin #giovannisroom #books #book #mybookshelf #myreadinglist #favoritebooks #theauthorspeaks #inhisownwords #writer #author #readinglist #livre #livres #libro #libros #library #novel #fiction #buch #bücher #livros #libri #authorinterview
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📚 James Baldwin on Giovanni's Room (1956) 📚
I just finished Giovanni's Room and it has found a space on my favorite books of all time list. Perhaps I should have read this novel 40 years ago when I was in my mid 20s - but I'm not at all upset that I only discovered it now. I'm sure that it has resonated in quite a different way for this 60 something single man.
#jamesbaldwin #giovannisroom #books #book #mybookshelf #myreadinglist #favoritebooks #theauthorspeaks #inhisownwords #writer #author #readinglist #livre #livres #libro #libros #library #novel #fiction #buch #bücher #livros #libri #authorinterview
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Good & bad news for #JaneAustenJuly I started with Pride & Prejudice 😍, then went on with Pride & Premeditation, but I felt Lizzie was not "my Lizzie". The murdered person was not very interesting and there was not much info to pick my curiosity so I got to chapter seven, realised I didn't care and decided to DNF it 😢 I still think the book has potential, but maybe I had P&P too present in my mind or maybe it was not the right time for me?
Then I picked The Other Bennet Sister... Oh my! This one has been so good and satisfying! It really gets you into P&P setting and context to tell us the story of Mary. I'm on chapter 60 and have 250 pages to go, so it can still go either way, but I'm hoping for the best because it truly deserves it.#PrideAndPrejudice #JaneAusten #Reading #TheOtherBennetSister #Classics #Books #FavoriteBooks
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Seriously? I'm a writer not a reader.
#linkInBio
#reading #favoritebooks #satire #fun #Mondayfunday #education #literature #author #writer #writerscommunity #blogger #bloggerslife #justdoit #starwars #mandalorian #grogu #instagood #instalike #tolloemehttps://rickollie.com/2024/04/08/what-book-could-you-read-over-and-over-again-daily-prompt-asked/
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My favorite reads this year.
Full reviews at: https://jturiano.com > Book Reviews.
1. The Collective by Alison Gaylin
2. Falling by T.J. Newman
3. Educated by Tara Westover
4. How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
5. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas#bookreview #bookreviewers #bookreviewer #favoritebooks #bookstoread #topfivebooks #topfivebooks2023 #readingcommunity #writingcommunity
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@bookstodon
And speaking of Atul Gawande, this is a fascinating article about the slow uptake of (certain) ideas and practices in medicine.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/slow-ideas -
Time to reread a favourite book of mine,
'Being Mortal - Aging, Illness, Medicine, and What Matters in the End'
By Atul GawandeRecommended reading for anyone who knows anyone who is getting older or who will be getting older themselves at some point.
https://atulgawande.com/book/being-mortal/
#AtulGawande #IAmReading #favoritebooks #FavouriteBooks @bookstodon -
What the Dickens? Our Mutual Friend (my favourite book ever) - YouTube. Haven’t watched this video yet, but saving for later. Our Mutual Friend is easily my favourite Dickens novel, and one of my absolute all time favourite novels ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKIG2UPlflU #Dickens #CharlesDickens #Literature #VictorianLiterature #Fiction #Novels #Books #Reading #Bookstodon #Booktube #FavouriteBooks #FavoriteBooks #NineteenthCentury
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"On the hospital bed, her delicate body cradled between thin white pillows, Rosita dreamed."
-A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little BadgerBooks make the world better.
This week I'll be posting about some of my favorite books YA, their covers and their fabulous opening lines.#BooksofMastodon #AltTextCoverDay #WritingCommunity #YA #BooksWorthReading #fantasy #favoritebooks #Mythology #folklore @bookstodon
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Books make the world better.
This week I'll be posting about some of my favorite books YA, their covers and their fabulous opening lines.“The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards”
-A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin#BooksofMastodon #AltTextCoverDay #WritingCommunity #YA #BooksWorthReading #fantasy #favoritebooks @bookstodon
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@feditips @bookwyrm
Thought I should add these hashtags to help readers find the information on your original post.
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Favorite quotes from favorite book (10):
“For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace#amreading #favoritebooks #WritingCommunity #bookstodon #readersofmastodon
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Watch: LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Names His Favorite Concerts, Books, Movies, Places And Records
In a new interview with Impericon, LAMB OF GOD singer Randy Blythe was asked to name his top three concerts, books, movies, places, records, inspiring people, things he wishes he had known earlier, tour items and his own songs....#LambOfGod #RandyBlythe #FavoriteConcerts #FavoriteBooks #FavoriteMovies #FavoritePlaces #FavoriteRecords
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"A thin line runs between betrayal and sacrifice. Figuring out the difference could cost a man his heart."
#literature #indieauthors #mastodonbooks #bookstodon #reading #bookclub #books #novels #writer #amreading #favoritebooks #fiction #BookLover #BookAddict #BookRecommendations #BookToot
@bookstodon
https://medium.com/the-she/texas-heat-introduction-and-chapter-1-cc2135d7140 -
Favorite quotes from favorite books (7):
“There's no kindness in offering false hope.”
― Naomi Novik, Uprooted#favoritebooks #favoritequotes #WritingCommunity #amreadingfantasy #bookstodon #books
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Favorite quotes from favorite books (6):
“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed#writingcommunity #amwriting #amreading #booktodon #favoritebooks #books
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#literature #indieauthors #romancelandia #mastodonbooks #bookstodon #reading #bookclub #books #novels #writer #amreading #favoritebooks #fiction
READ NOW ON MEDIUM - Story is complete
"Change, I'm sure she would view as unacceptable. I doubt she could appreciate the customs accepted by the women of my country. Here, I may dress as you. I may even adopt the courtesies of your culture. But, in Ahalamin, I live by the traditions of my people. So will my wife.”
https://medium.com/the-she/pride-and-audacity-part-1-bc06e4b1599d
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not too much into shorts though i write some. I guess my favorite include pretty much anything by o henry and poe. My favorite novels are here:
https://sleepingbearpressdontwakethebear.wordpress.com/2023/02/20/some-of-my-favorite-books-2/and a couple of my shorts
https://sleepingbearpressdontwakethebear.wordpress.com/2019/05/01/some-of-my-short-stories/
