Visual arts

The postcard, a furtive encounter with art

We hang it on the wall, stick it in a notebook, slip it into a book, send it to a loved one, keep it preciously in a wooden box with the rest of the collection: the postcard is everywhere. There's nothing quite as vivid a feeling as finding a postcard in a second-hand book that wasn't once ours, and which bears the markings of an exchange or a memory we've missed.

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