Thanks for an amazing year!

There's more to come in 2023

I'm about to hop on an airplane while I type this. If you have been following me on Twitter for the past few years, you know that I'm not a big fan of this thing, but well, here I am.

This is a quick entry to say thanks.

This year has been quite the year for me, professionally and personally speaking.

While I surely had a few disappointments, like seeing ourselves being forced to cancel our talk at SXSW due to the Russia-Ukraine war (long story), I had the opportunity to collaborate on so many exciting projects! To highlight three of them, I'll mention my collaboration with UNHCR, The Colour of Flight, (huge honor, needless to say), a documentary about US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (I colorized many photos for this one - some of which I had never seen before. I'll let you know more as soon as I can), and a very cool book (still not published) with Taschen.

I also released my own new book, the third and beautiful volume in collaboration with Dan Jones, part of our The Colour of Time series, A Woman's World. Next year we celebrate the 5-year-anniversary of the publication of The Colour of Time, and that is wild. Hopefully we will do something to celebrate, but more on that in a few months.

Finally, I have assembled a team to help me create new ways to use my work to bring History closer to you. After 7 years (!!!!), I felt compelled to come up with different and creative applications for what I do, without stepping away from this fascinating intersection of art, history and education. We are working on many, many new ideas, including in the development of new ‘sections’ for this newsletter - both paid and free.

I'm super excited and can't wait to tell you more.

That's it for now, but before I go, here's a photo of people celebrating New Year's Eve in Times Square, in 1938. Times Square has been hosting the celebration since 1904.

New York in 1904 was a city on the verge of tremendous changes – and, not surprisingly, many of those changes had their genesis in the bustling energy and thronged streets of Times Square. Two innovations that would completely transform the Crossroads of the World debuted in 1904: the opening of the city’s first subway line, and the first-ever celebration of New Year’s Eve in Times Square. Read More

Happy New Year, everyone!

Best wishes - and I see you soon.

Marina x