Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Beauty Unforeseen
4. Unforeseen 3
5. Quiet city 7
6. Rust à la Pollock 11
7. Rothko’s wooden door 15
8. Maps 19
9. Curtains and wire 23
10. Your mind under glass 27
11. Questions in Our Pockets
12. Questions in our pockets 33
13. De Chirico on Wall Street 39
14. Haversack 43
15. Improvisation 47
16. Talking about the dogs 51
17. Margins 55
18. Dare 59
19. Ladders 63
20. What Would Banksy Do?
21. Street history 67
22. Graffiti 71
23. First snow 75
24. University Bridge 79
25. Yarn bombing in Grand Cerf Arcade 83
26. Reflections in a Camera’s Eye
27. Cloud Gate 87
28. Man in the blue shirt 91
29. Campus in the off hours 95
30. Red truck 99
31. Restore 103
32. Dance of chairs 107
33. Flea market 111
34. Orchids in Grand Cerf Arcade 115
35. Rue St. Honoré 119
36. Convex travel mirror 121
37. Grids
38. Daedalus at work 125
39. Threshold 129
40. Open 131
41. Reverie 135
42. The Chicago Picasso 139
43. Rue Descartes 143
44. Acknowledgements 145
45. Notes 149
46. Biographies 151
47. Brave & Brilliant Series 152