I was fed up with everything the other day and decided I needed to go see the revamped Greek and Roman hall at the Metropolitan . Once there...

I found the slim and rather clumsily titled "Cameo Cards and Bella C. Landauer" while snooping around on the desk of collagist and...

A small spotlight cast onto to a few of the best blogs I frequent. First installment: Le Divan Fumoir Bohemien , where I pilfered this beau...

My friend John lent me a book last week, Hudson Valley Ruins by Thomas Rinaldi and Robert Yasinac. It took me several days to get beyond the...

I am not a philatelist. Rather, this is another in the ongoing series of incidental favorites, ripped from storage and thrown on the web. ...

I realize I have no tag or label for this post. Light research based on passing thoughts? Odd " thought clusters "? It was a passa...

About four years ago I visited the Breakers, the Vanderbilt “cottage” in Newport, RI. It was explained that in restoring the building severa...

I came across this striking photo, top, taken by Lewis Hine in 1912, on the sentimental, sweet and sharply addictive Shorpy: the 100-year-ol...

I'm stumbling over myself for quite a while, unable to compose a coherent post. A death in the family (and the long illness that led up ...

Verbatim Google searches that have led people to this blog: what is olfactory what is tyranny london's national treasures a red pillow ...

In a comment on a previous post of mine (" the vibrant line ") regarding fashion illustration (appreciation; death of) "Robin...

My mother has been going through old slides. "What do we do with all of these," she said, meaning the 20 or more antique-looking ...

Gladiator was on cable last week and I'd forgotten that Derek Jacobi featured so prominently in the movie. Jacobi is cemented in my mi...

: : : Stylish missives produce smiles upon the most snarling countenances : : : Tasteful designs of the highest order now available for ...

Top: April 13, 1929, Eduardo Garcia Benito; January 2007 ; 2nd row: March 1, 1949, Marcel Vertes; October 1, 1941, Carl Erickson; Decembe...

Another in the sporadic series of posts that both showcase some of my "collections" and offer the easy way out when concentratio...