From The Guardian: “One of the world’s greatest masterpieces, and surely the most stolen piece of art of all time, Hubert and Jan van Eyck’s Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, also known as the Ghent Altarpiece, has a new €30m (£26m) glass-case home. While remaining within St Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, for which it … Continue reading A Non-Mystic Report on The Trip I Didn’t Take to Ghent
From the New York Review of Books, March 25 2021: Regina Marler: Fire season in California ended in mid-December, but I can’t bring myself to unpack the boxes near the front door. I threw them together overnight—family photos, backup drives, mementos, passports—in late September, when three wildfires merged, creating the Glass Fire, and burned west … Continue reading Excerpt of the Day: “Emergency Everywhere”
This remarkable tribute is by Mark Schwartz, an attorney from Bryn Mawr PA. It is a remarkable tribute to the work and memory of a photographer friend, Christopher Cardozo, who in turn had made a career of preserving and paying tribute to the work of an earlier pioneering photographer-ethnographer. It was so striking i am … Continue reading A Guest Post: Preserving the Work of a Photographer Who Documented Native Americans
One day, deep in the pit of my midlife angst, I saw a job notice on a bulletin board at the Merrifield postal facility. It was for a part-time EEO Investigator. It was 1990, and for five years I had been moving mail in this enormous mail processing center in the DC Virginia suburbs. I … Continue reading Going Postal
Yes, I admit it. I have often called North Carolina Senator Richard Burr a lazy & unresponsive legislator. I mean, don’t you remember the landmark Burr Act to clean up hog waste & coal pollution in the state? Me neither. Because there is no such thing. I used to think that Burr’s main ”landmark” on … Continue reading An Apology (not quite) to Senator Richard Burr