I recently finished This Republic of Suffering , the new book by Drew Gilpin Faust, about this country's relentless confrontations with ...

A "Talk of the Town" in this past week's New Yorker recounts how Art Garfunkel has kept an index of the 1023 or so books he ...

Somehow I felt like we'd been building toward a Henry Fuseli moment. The Owen Wilson wrist-slashing documentation (where are the scars?)...

Robert Warner 's ephemera collage art show at Pavel Zoubok gallery. A wonderful display of vintage what-not and obscure commercial flots...

Feeling somewhat expansive with the New Year, I've decided to simultaneously look outward from my navel-gazing and be more aesthetically...

Instead of ushering in 2008 with a peevish list of "things I can do without" , I'll leave 2007 with a couple of musical finds...

Postcards of questionable merit. (Not to be confused with a previous Highlight of generic landscape postcards .) Of course I'm being co...

"and many of 'em Perhaps you remember a little song that goes something like this– Pink Bemis" Letterpress card, c. 1930s. A l...

If the Eskimos, as the old saw goes, have a hundred words for "snow," I must have nearly as many for "tired." I'm we...

I just finished a book on neurasthenia, that wonderfully evocative nervous disorder of tremulous aesthetes, profligates, and women (more nex...

Wherein, I transcribe verbatim Google searches that have led people to this blog , as found on our sitemeter : Andy Warhol peach slices mor...

I've always liked the Haughwout Building. I remember in the early '90s when it was ghostly and blackened and the clock face stood ou...

I've been bogged down. I've been thinking about what it is, exactly, I want to say about collecting. Rather, about living with, and ...

Devotion to the past [is] one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love. Susan Sontag "Unguided Tour," quoted in The Past is...

Truly Exceptional! Without Peer! rarely greeting the light of day in over 150 years! Eye-Entrancing Discoveries assembled during recent hou...

I recently retrieved all three of my Amphigorey s from storage and in poring over them page by page, I have been struck once again by his ha...