During a trip to London some years ago, a friend took me for a walk along South Bank. This was before the Tate Modern opened and things were...

I hope I am not tempting Fate by saying that the Brooklyn brownstone I live in has been uncommonly free of the New York City pest trifecta: ...

 Silk screened dry cleaning posters showing hand lettering. Original designs, c. 1960 I went down to my unofficial deep storage in the base...

 A detail of a crudely retouched image of "Kallikak" children which (intentionally?) made them appear grotesque. From the book Th...

  From top: Ignaz Schiffermüller's chart of blue color samples, Vienna, 1772. Moses Harris's Natural System of Colours , London, 17...

Just when the embers of my Bauhaus-inspired armchair crafts enthusiasm started to die the Metropolitan comes up with a show to re kindle th...

Although I haven't featured it in a while, I feel its time to highlight "Highlights from the Collection," a sporadic s...

Untitled (Bauhaus building, Dessau), 1931, Iwao Yamawaki Untitled (Ellen Frank), c. 1929, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Color sphere in 7 light...