DETAILS (A TAXONOMY FOR BEGINNERS)

Here's how it goes: There are details that hum and details that sing. There are details that accumulate like silt when the artist isn...

A GIANT: BERNARD FUCHS (1932-2009)

Bernie Fuchs started out in a most unlikely place and time. Born in a tiny rural town in the heart of the Great Depression, he grew up with ...

LOVE IS A STAR-GUIDED BRICK

In one of his most famous sonnets, Shakespeare claims that true love is the permanent thing, the polar star by which we can all guide our sh...

FLAGS: ART ON A STICK

Putting an image on the end of a stick and waving it around adds emphasis that you don't get when the same image is lying flat on paper....

FINDING PERSONALITY IN A BRICK

Here is a series of splendid drawings with two things in common: First, they are all drawings of geometric shapes: buildings comprised of st...

ALEXANDER LEYDENFROST (1888-1961)

Suppose that you were a baron, born of noble blood, but you lost your rank and title after the heir to the throne was murdered. Then let...

...AND IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, GOD CREATED THE LINE

Nobody knows for sure why Rembrandt drew this errant line beneath his signature in his famous picture of Adam and Eve: The line seems so inc...