Mountain Home, Arkansas

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 makes highly detailed and adorable miniature tableaux to illustrate her books. Here are a few of her photo…

I’ve been playing Artle, the National Gallery of Art’s online artist guessing game. Half the fun is discovering artists I’ve…

A dark and goofy Christmas story from comics genius Matti Hagelberg, translated by yours truly and published today in the…

Why have I never seen Van Gogh’s paintings of fruit before? They’re lovely.

This seems to be quartz, but what is the crystalline mineral it’s riddled with, and how did it form?

Alexandra Kehayoglou creates lush, irresistible landscapes in tapestry. See more amazing art at Alexandra Kehayoglou’s website…

The Great Taking of the Veil, by Mikhail Nesterov. Religious life, and particularly the life of the clergy, is a…

From the Library of Congress WPA Poster collection.

Bryan Northup builds beautiful sushi-like sculptures made of the single-use plastics that choke our oceans. Northup says, “My intent is…

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Last weekend Rick and I went to a place I’d never seen before, the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge…

These Edouard Vuillard paintings seem to me to perfectly capture the chilly sunlight of early spring.

Tom Kiefer, a janitor at the offices of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Ajo, Arizona, collected the belongings of…

I’ve just been to a show of master printmakers at the Seattle Art Museum. The most interesting to me was…

NASA has a Project Apollo photo archive with amazing photos from all the Apollo Program. Here are some shots from…

Artist Chandler O’Leary from Tacoma keeps an amazing sketchbook when she travels, and posts her watercolor sketches on her blog…

Old shops and warehouses in downtown Tacoma.

This past October I had the good fortune of visiting the Residenz Museum in Munich. While we were there I…