Impossible Kisses

I’m all bit up. At the end of last week we had three or four days of cloudless skies and I got the urge to do some star-gazing . So I spent...

To put it at its most extreme, I sometimes think of many Rembrandt paintings as kind of neurological construction kits , images that are not...

Many, many artists before and after Rembrandt used heavy chiaroscuro—effects of shadow and light—for dramatic purposes. No artist before or...

Although historians tend to see Rembrandt’s method as an attempt at naturalism, it goes much farther than portrait conventions have ever gon...

Rembrandt’s restricted palette excludes several of the brightest pigments available in the seventeenth century. His blacks (charcoal and bo...

My suspicion is that Rembrandt inspires talk of magic and wizardry more than any other painter in history. I’m going to talk about this all...

Once upon a time there was a Mischievous Girl named Joni. 1 Joni did all the things Mischievous Girls do. She wrote songs (at the very least...

One tricky part of blogging is that it is a day-to-day activity. Although some of the stories and poems I put up are things I’d written a lo...

After my Monday post to the blogosphere, “ Mischievous Girls Make The World Go Round ,” I talked to some people in the REAL WORLD about how ...

My informal plans for this week were for me to talk about painting and image-making for a couple of days and then, Friday, return to the top...

Jack Odell, 87, Designer of Matchbox Cars, Is Dead By DOUGLAS MARTIN Jack Odell, a self-trained engineer whose daughter’s mischievous habit...

In this uncomfortably humorous survival guide, Wilson, a Ph.D. candidate at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, reminds re...

There seems to be a resurgence of things Wagner lately. I saw an essay in the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago that spoke, I thought surp...

Legendary lake 'monster' is captured on camera Nessie monster spotted in Chinese lake By Sophie Freeman (Telegraph Media Group) Las...

Team Arrives in Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Begin Bigfoot Search Thursday , July 12, 2007 MARQUETTE, Mich. — Researchers hot on the tr...

Energizer to buy Playtex for $1.2B Deal builds battery maker's personal care product range to better compete with Procter & Gamble. ...

Today I’m going to talk about two events that happened in Italy just as the Renaissance was drawing to a close. The first thing is that the ...

When I read stuff like this I always have to take a time out : 5. Whatever motion appears in the firmament arises not from any motion of the...

Maybe the most startling (and amusing) claim of the believers in a geocentric cosmos (geocentrics? geo-eccentrics?) is that “mainstream” sc...

It is very tempting to regard someone like Robert Sungenis as a kind of ersatz Don Quixote, a Don Quixote who not only sees imaginary monst...