PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST IN TIMES OF CHANGE

You think you've got career problems?  Russian artist Zinaida Serebriakova launched her career just as the world was starting to unravel...

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

It's too early in the season for the star of Bethlehem, so that glow in the sky last week could only have been the neon lights from ...

A.B. FROST, BETWEEN THE LINES

The great A.B. Frost (1851 - 1928) drew a story about a man who wanted to learn hypnotism.  At one point, the man foolishly decides to pract...

ERICH SOKOL'S PRELIMINARY SKETCHES

I have previously written about my admiration for illustrator / cartoonist Erich Sokol , whose brilliant work appeared in Playboy Magazine....

THE SLAV EPIC

  I spent the past week in Prague where I was working on the World Forum on Governance.  Away from my books and art materials, I resigned my...

NEW BOOK FROM STERLING HUNDLEY

Award winning illustrator Sterling Hundley has come out with a collection of his art, Blue Collar / White Collar . The book melds Hundley...

EMPTY ARMS

You hardly ever see pictures of men carrying women in their arms these days, but once upon a time such pictures made up 71.32% of all illust...