Art and Photography Archive

Mountain: Portraits of High Places - I’ve known Sandy Hill for almost three decades, and every time I’ve heard she’s gone off to climb some mountain or other, I’ve thought the same thing: She’s nuts. I would

Obama: An Intimate Portrait - This isn’t fair. For sanity’s sake, you try not to think about this guy. For sanity’s sake, if you're like everybody I know and pretty much everybody you know, you

Paige Peterson’s Interior Landscapes - Fifteen years ago, after a long and harrowing brain surgery, Paige Peterson had a revelation. In her hospital bed, using a sketchbook more as therapy than a record of creation,

Private Splendor: Great Families at Home - On the occasion of my first dinner with the woman who would become my first wife, a man answered the door. He wore a crisply tailored

Ready Steady Shoot: A Pro’s Guide to Smartphone Video - The smartphone videos that I make are not quite great. You know the culprits: our old friends shaky and speedy. Because I would like to do better than that, I was about

Retrieved -   If you are not a dog person --- and I’m so not --- you have to bite your tongue when a dog lover bangs on about an animal’s soulfulness.   I

Retrieved - If you are not a dog person --- and I’m so not --- you have to bite your tongue when a dog lover bangs on about an animal’s soulfulness.   I

Richard Rothman: Town of C - Richard Rothman doesn’t do anything in half-measures. For “Redwood Saw,” his first book of photographs, he left New York for Northern California’s ancient old-growth forests. There are splendid hotels and

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Seeing Is Believing! - “We own weird. Accept no substitutes.” So it is written atop the web site for Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.   And so it is proved anew in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Seeing

Rooms - The Earldom of Drogheda was created in 1661.  Soon there was a home worthy of the title --- Moore Abbey. It was large. It was Gothic.

Santiago Calatrava: Complete Works - Four years after 9/11, no one could decide on the buildings that would replace the World Trade Center or the memorial that will be erected to honor the

Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” — The Authorized Graphic Adaptation - Shirley Jackson’s short story "The Lottery" was published in The New Yorker 75 years ago, in the issue of June 26, 1948. It caused an immediate sensation. Some readers wrote

Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus - The wine world’s cool kids are buzzing about Georgia. That is, the Georgia that is bordered on the North by Russia, to the South by Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. If you're

The Art of Max Ferguson - At the height of Rudy Giuliani’s reign, my stepson and I went downtown for an art opening. The artist was Max Ferguson, one of my former screenwriting students. He is, without

The Art of Tim Burton - The first time we went to the Tim Burton show at the Museum of Modern Art, I took my 7.85-year-old daughter. The second time, she took me.   That’s as it should be.

The Bee Cottage Story: How I Made a Muddle of Things and Decorated My Way Back to Happines - I can’t remember how I became Frances Schultz’s online friend, because the process was so effortless it seemed we had always been sassing one another. And I can’t recall why it

The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft - Guest Butler Jane Chafin is director of the Offramp Gallery in Pasadena, California.  A former painter, she has worked as a registrar at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and written

The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places - Even the greatest hostess, it is said, is forgotten when the last of her guests dies.   That’s as it should be. What’s more ephemeral than a dinner party? What fades faster

The World of Madeleine Castaing - What a beautiful book. No. That’s too little praise. What a work of art. What an inspiration. Look at the American decorating books of the last few decades, and what you

U2 & I: The Photographs 1982-2004 -       U2 & I: The Photographs 1982-2004 Anton Corbijn The midwest in midwinter ---