“[The museum experience] … awakens something of our depressed faculty of wonder, and as wonder deepens it becomes admiration, as it sharpens it becomes curiosity. But admiration is the real, the only beginning of art, and curiosity [ READ MORE ... ]

Last night I sat down at my kitchen table and poured myself a generous glass of red wine. In the oven was my evening meal. Before me sat the newest issue of Cabinet and I was [ READ MORE ... ]

I must admit I’m a relative newcomer to Sol LeWitt’s work, but my short time with it has deeply influenced my ideas and my work. When I heard he’d passed away this weekend, I was eager [ READ MORE ... ]

I’m ususally numb to the, uh … numbing effects of advertising. Like everyone else, I am bombarded from all directions by advertisers but I try to take it in stride. And I’m usually the last to launch [ READ MORE ... ]

Way back when my fiance and I lived in Philadelphia, we’d occasionally walk the few short blocks over to the Art Museum to sit and look out at the city skyline. The only drawback [ READ MORE ... ]

Greetings one and all … I know I am breaking an unstated “rule of blogging” by apologizing for the lack of activity here in the past week. I know, I know – you’re not supposed to [ READ MORE ... ]

As an imagemaker (that’s a fancy graduate school word for “photographer”), I’m keenly interested in all sorts of optics. I’ve made a fair bit of work using lensless camera obscura projections so I try to soak [ READ MORE ... ]

One of what I estimate to be among the top ten “moments that have left me utterly speechless” took place this past weekend. I’m still reeling from it … in a good way.

In the spirit of speechlessness, [ READ MORE ... ]

In the days following my post on discarded Christmas trees there’s been an explosion (well, maybe just a “boom”) of photos of junked trees popping up all over this crazy internet. In a desperate attempt to [ READ MORE ... ]

Well, it’s official – I am feeling a little bit older today. No, it’s not my birthday, but it certainly feels like some sort of milestone. Today my childhood hero Cal Ripken was inducted into the [ READ MORE ... ]

Thanks to the swift pens of some very deep pocketed check writers, the Thomas Eakins painting The Gross Clinic (left) will be staying put in the city of its origin [via [ READ MORE ... ]

Happy Holidays, all … and WAHOOOOO!

Time marches on and, along with it, go our methods of its measure: the New York Times reports that the last mechanical parking meter in NYC was decommissioned yesterday. I’m a sucker for clocks of all [ READ MORE ... ]

Discuss. (via Flickr.)

Above: New York City, Sept. 7th, 2001 WTC.12 by Joel Meyerowitz

I had a chance to see Joel Meyerowitz speak at the George Eastman House this past week. He’s as good a storyteller as he [ READ MORE ... ]