The Father and the Son

Mozart heart Prague

Mom found a poster my sister brought back from Prague sixteen or seventeen years ago.

Space Oddity

Women of the Brooklyn Museum

Messrs. Hamilton and Washington.

Aerial #62

Aerial #62 by Sarah McKenzie on view at the Jen Bekman Gallery in Soho.

A word from our sponsors

Independence Day

Detail of Edward Hicks' The Declaration of Independence, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Vir.

All That I Couldn't Leave Behind

This Charles Willson Peale portrait of Gen. Washington in his pre-1780 finery was valued at 2.5 to 4 million dollars, but The Strand sold me the auction catalog for two bucks.

Nec Tamen Consumebatur

Indian and Soldier and Tour Guide

A Maynard Dixon mural outside the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C..

Lunch hour cultural experience

Jubilee

Southwark Post Office

What People Did in the Days Before Cable

The Great Indoors

Detail of Charley Harper poster for the National Park Service.