In 2012, after completing a graduate degree in art history and teaching at the university level, I got my Grand Tour, combing through centur...

Last year, around September, I began a slow-burn pine session for the Northeast and New England. Especially for its stunning Autumns and sn...

Still dancing to the Brazilian sound as I finish up writing for the semester. This album, which I cannot find anywhere, is my main motivato...

The best thing about this semester has been the work-adventure to Brasil. Even though I'm now in a deep hell pit, two weeks behind sched...

In my readings this semester I have noticed, on several occasions, some embedded notes of support in art historical texts. Yes. Could they b...

Back in June I found myself wandering the halls of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Although the riches there are endless, one exhibition, ...

This is where we moved into our first home, found important work that we enjoy and people, too. In Texas, I became an adult maybe, learned ...

A day in the country, toward Hill Country, where the wildflowers spring up for a too quick chance to shar...

Recently returned from number one on my top five in five years travel list, Mexico, and I'm all kinds of nostalgic about the experience....

I've been pretty lucky with my traveling schedule. Nothing exotic lately, but a closer look around my new homeland. Included on some rec...

Hungry for something deeply provocative? Here is a double feature that spontaneously unfolded over this weekend. My original double featur...

There is so much good stuff going on here at my little museum. Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna 1897-1907 through January 12, 2014 ...

In Italy: The Bargello Saracino, 1579, Florence, or so I thought. This guy, a good looking wooden jousting target constructed for rude R...

From Lina Wertmüller's Swept Away , Piero Piccioni's Turquoise (1974) Turquoise and Andante Improvviso are the gorgeous st...

Growing up in Watertown, NY, I spent a lot of time with my grandfather. He was particularly fond of country western music and constantly pla...