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But you can vicariously share in Ms. Mather's adventures as a rustic "locavore" and accomplished cook.

The Meat It Behooves the World to Eat Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011

The book's subtitle captures Ms. Mather's narrative arc: "How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally all on forty dollars a week."

The Meat It Behooves the World to Eat Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011

Director Christopher Brown says "architect Rick Mather's design for the galleries now allows us to display material that, for reasons of conservation, has not been seen for up to half a century."

More Beauty in Oxford Paul Levy 2011

While the museum in Rome was the bookies 'favourite to win, Rick Mather's Ashmolean refurbishment decisively won the public vote last week in a poll conducted by members of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the general public.

Hadid's design edges out Ashmolean to win the Stirling prize Vanessa Thorpe 2010

John Goodman, Ogilvy & Mather's regional director for South and Southeast Asia, puts it into perspective: It's like being in 1990 and telling people that China doesn't matter.

Naazish YarKhan: See You at the Second Annual American Muslim Consumer Conference! Naazish YarKhan 2010

Moreover, the new galleries are integrated into Mr. Mather's ingenious master plan, so you progress from them to the rest of the museum's Ancient World floor, via the ancient Near East, the Aegean World, Classical Greece and Rome, India to A.D. 600, to early China and Japan.

More Beauty in Oxford Paul Levy 2011

John Goodman, Ogilvy & Mather's regional director for South and Southeast Asia, puts it into perspective: It's like being in 1990 and telling people that China doesn't matter.

Naazish YarKhan: See You at the Second Annual American Muslim Consumer Conference! Naazish YarKhan 2010

Mather's building, which includes new galleries for American, pre-Columbian, South Asian, Native American and 21st-century art, is also a pressure valve, with places to sit, connect to the museum's WiFi network, and have a drink.

Rick Mather's design elevates Richmond museum's dour 1930s architecture 2010

The Richmond museum is Mather's first significant American project and given its serene good sense, it should be the first of many.

Rick Mather's design elevates Richmond museum's dour 1930s architecture 2010

Elevated bridges in the atrium connect Mather's galleries with the older spaces, and give the visitor multiple perspectives on the reconfigured interior and exterior landscape.

Rick Mather's design elevates Richmond museum's dour 1930s architecture 2010