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Throughout eight galleries, cranes and egrets roost in gilded screens, eagles swoop down on prey in hanging scrolls, sparrows and swallows variously flit across the black night of lacquer and the pure white of porcelain, and all manner of avian beauty graces works big and small.
WSJ: Flights of Feathered Fancy | Birds in the Art of Japan | Metropolitan Museum of Art | By Lee Lawrence
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Instead of curling photographs and yellowing newspapers, we are possessed of a shiny and permanent now, one we flit-click about and so delude ourselves as to our own eternal youth - until, that is, we look down at the wrinkled and liver-spotted hands that rest on the keyboard.
BBC: A Point of View: Nostalgia - it's not like it used to be
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The special exhibit gallery has been transformed into an intimate garden where 20 different species of North American butterflies such as monarchs, Western swallowtails, red admirals and even giant moths, flit from brightly coloured daisies, sunflowers, zinnias and other dazzling flowers.
BBC: See eye to eye with a butterfly in San Francisco