I spent some time taking photos in the parking lots surrounding the Quality Inn in Mountain Home, Arkansas. A beautiful…
Charles Burchfield Paintings
I love playing Artle, the art identification game from the National Gallery of Art. I can only guess the artist…
Maggie Rudy’s Mouseland
Maggie Rudy makes highly detailed and adorable miniature tableaux to illustrate her books. Here are a few of her photo…
Frantisek Kupka’s Nature Scenes
I’ve been playing Artle, the National Gallery of Art’s online artist guessing game. Half the fun is discovering artists I’ve…
How Ernst Stavro Blofeld Saved Christmas, by Matti Hagelberg
A dark and goofy Christmas story from comics genius Matti Hagelberg, translated by yours truly and published today in the…
Van Gogh’s Fruit
Why have I never seen Van Gogh’s paintings of fruit before? They’re lovely.
Mystery Rock
This seems to be quartz, but what is the crystalline mineral it’s riddled with, and how did it form?
Alexandra Kehayoglou’s Tapestries
Alexandra Kehayoglou creates lush, irresistible landscapes in tapestry. See more amazing art at Alexandra Kehayoglou’s website…
Mikhail Nesterov Paintings
The Great Taking of the Veil, by Mikhail Nesterov. Religious life, and particularly the life of the clergy, is a…
Pandemic Inspiration from the WPA
From the Library of Congress WPA Poster collection.
Bryan Northup’s Plastic Sculptures
Bryan Northup builds beautiful sushi-like sculptures made of the single-use plastics that choke our oceans. Northup says, “My intent is…
Protected: Family Photos
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The Columbia National Wildlife Refuge
Last weekend Rick and I went to a place I’d never seen before, the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge…
Edouard Vuillard’s Spring Light
These Edouard Vuillard paintings seem to me to perfectly capture the chilly sunlight of early spring.
Janitor’s Photos of Migrants’ Confiscated Belongings
Tom Kiefer, a janitor at the offices of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Ajo, Arizona, collected the belongings of…
Albrecht Dürer: Knight, Death, and the Devil
I’ve just been to a show of master printmakers at the Seattle Art Museum. The most interesting to me was…
Apollo Mission Photos
NASA has a Project Apollo photo archive with amazing photos from all the Apollo Program. Here are some shots from…
Chandler O’Leary’s Travel Sketches
Artist Chandler O’Leary from Tacoma keeps an amazing sketchbook when she travels, and posts her watercolor sketches on her blog…
Downtown Tacoma
Old shops and warehouses in downtown Tacoma.
Tapestries at the Residenz Museum
This past October I had the good fortune of visiting the Residenz Museum in Munich. While we were there I…