Transformers

May 21, 2014

My ideal sculptor, growing up, was Michelangelo. My father gave me a big heavy book filled with photographs for an …

Klimt’s Precipice

May 7, 2014

The iconic painting by Gustav Klimt, called “The Kiss” has been reproduced so many times that we feel we know …

April 14, 2014

One notices, traveling around Europe, that the Romans were everywhere. I have seen the remains of Roman walls, temples, arenas, …

March 29, 2014

For anyone who has collected, or even occasionally seen, needlework samplers from the 18th and 19th centuries, it is always …

January 10, 2014

In my Catholic girlhood angels were omnipresent, rosy babies flying on the cathedral ceiling, plaster men with wings and sandals …