What Flowers?

During a rice planting festival in Japan, the women of Chiyoda stoop and plant in unison while drummers and bamboo-clacking … More

What is Art?

“…a picture of human life, such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into … More

“Drawing is the root of everything. How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that … More

I adored him all my life. But that ends right here! Turns out that it was all an act. Here’s … More

The Yellow House, By Martin Gayford, [Little Brown and Company, 2006] The Yellow House [Van Gogh, Gauguin and Nine Turbulent … More

The Burmese artist, Htein Lin, painted stories of his life as a prisoner on deathrow, in Myanmar. On display in … More

The Union Church, Pocantico Hilly, NY, contains a stained glass window by Henri Matisse and nine windows by Marc Chagall. … More

Robert Altman. Vincent and Theo. Movie. 1990. “Vincent and Theo (1990)“, is a “must-watch“, even for those who may not … More

It has been seven years since I watched “The Seventh Seal“. The UC Theater in Berkeley, which closed in 2001, … More

I recently watched some movies on Vincent Van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin – artists who started painting relatively late in … More

A friend of mine emailed it to me this morning. I wanted to remember it. Thought my blog was a … More