Continue Reading From the Ground up The Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene creates scenarios that resemble in some ways some of the old Dutch masters’ paintings. The light…
Continue Reading Linn-Benton Community College Choir A small two-year junior college located in Albany, south of Portland, has caught my attention – and not only because their mascot…
Continue Reading Touretteshero, or heroine, in my book. Photographs here and below are of Jess Thom (Touretteshero) Consider Terry Castle, the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford who…
Continue Reading The Mortuary Collection During the last couple of months I had the opportunity to take a lot of portraits while on the job documenting this…
Continue Reading Art on the Road (5), Hands over Heels. I often pay particular attention to how people paint hands. It is not an easy task as anyone who has ever tried…
Continue Reading Art on the Road (4) – Longwood Gardens I have always felt that gardens, carefully planned, tended, designed gardens, can be a form of art. Add to the garden an…
Continue Reading Art on the Road (3): The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Soutine It’s all about education.I could not get these words out of my head at the end of an extraordinary day spent…
Continue Reading Art on the Road (2): Museum of Fine Art, Boston I had never been to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston before. It has been in existence since 1876, steadily…
Continue Reading Art on the Road Harvard Art Museum Something is in the air – and I am not just referring to mobiles, although every museum I set foot…
Continue Reading Adagietto Today’s bits of beauty are brought to you by Mahler, Visconti, Thomas Mann,Venice and a young Swedish actor who was hailed at…
