Attempted Bloggery

The photographer's female subject appears ready to turn the tables on the paparazzo in Mark Tansey's On Photography (Homage to Su...

On September 20, Swann Galleries is offering this rare example of a hand-colored etching by Marc Chagall. I'm never quite sure of mean...

Ronald Searle,  Granny Smith,  1978 Pen and watercolor, 250 x325 mm Camden Graphics, Ltd. 7001 The brilliant Ronald Searle ta...

Does this picture really record an event that took place on Yom Kippur? Robert Franks's photo entitled "Yom Kippur, NYC" may...

Soda and mineral water bottler Eugene Roussel created an extremely successful perfume and flavored water business after he moved to Philadel...

Here is a sheet of original artwork by Edward Gorey consisting of 1992 stage designs for "Amphigorey: A Musicale." Despite my mis...

This original 1912 photograph b y   Eu gène  Atge t  of the  Port de l'Hôtel de Ville  in Paris was offered for sale at Christie's...

In 2007, Sotheby's sold this sensational tennis drawing by James Thurber which is not among those catalogued in Bowden. Note how Thurb...

This is the cover of America is Under Attack, a book by Don Brown which explains the events of September 11, 2001 to young readers. ...

Here is information from the Christie's London sale of Michelangelo's male nude study for The Battle of Cascina. Drawings by Miche...