Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, by Pablo Picasso I have always loved Cubism. Picasso and Braque, the master, the founders, if you will. I always loved the idea of breaking things down to essential elements, and recombining them into new images. Last night I watched a...
Like many of us, I'm thinking a great deal about the upcoming mid-term elections. I don't know about you, but I've grown weary of campaign commercials, campaign rhetoric, name-calling, finger-point and the rest. The Tea Partiers bore me with their proud ignorance of how anything...
"By Nightfall", Michael Cunningham I read Michael Cunningham's novel, By Nightfall, not long ago. I didn't find it as strong as The Hours, but then I don't know how he could possible do better than he did there. That said, By Nightfall has some amazing elements...