Continue Reading Will I ever understand Abstract Art? We will find out. Or not. I know very little – really next to nothing – about abstract art. Sometimes I think that interferes with my appreciation of…
Continue Reading Oaks Bottom Nature Preserve Oaks Amusement Park We conclude this week’s explorations with a location close to home: Oaks Bottom, a 141 acres nature preserve with a lake, marshland and…
Continue Reading Worpswede A German Artist Colony My grandmother Dora grew up as one of 11 children on a small holding in Lower Saxony; her parents worked the lands…
Continue Reading Les Corbeaux Bonus: Trompe L'Oeil at the Louvre If memory can be trusted – and I wouldn’t, necessarily – the background of this montage was based on a photograph taken…
Continue Reading What ever happened to NEVER AGAIN? Visit the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education On December 17, 2012, the Simon Wiesental Center issued a travel advisory for Copenhagen and Denmark, following a warning by the Israeli…
Continue Reading Wide Open Spaces The threat to public lands Dufur, population 607, is a small hamlet south of The Dalles. I found those antelope skulls in a shop window, years in…
Continue Reading Off the Beaten Path Museo de Arte de Ponce This week I decided to dig for some of my favorite montages in the archives as long as they were connected to…
Continue Reading From Smirk to Smile Cultural aspects of smiling Can we explain why people in some countries smile and in others don’t? Why women smile more often than men? Scientists have…
Continue Reading Curtain Call Open and closed They’ve delivered quite a performance, those curtains. In real life and in art. Time to call them back for a bit of…
Continue Reading Silk on the Road Silk Road: traveling across continents and through the darknet Imagine you increased your weight 10.000 times in 6 weeks and then had to move your head 300.000 times to spin yourself…
