A New York City Misfit Museum, like No Other
Woody Allen pulls off one of Groucho Marx’s best lines in Annie Hall — you…
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Remembering Robert De Niro, one of the “Strange Great Secret Painters of America”
In chapter five of Jack Kerouac’s timeless 1960 travelogue, Lonesome Traveller, the great American novelist…
What We’d Bid on at the Historic Waldorf Astoria Hotel Auction
The Waldorf Astoria became an icon of Manhattan glamour ever since it first opened in…
Parisian Woman and a Cat in her Cannabis Garden: A Short Story Challenge
It’s amazing to see how our minds can wander in different ways; how many variations…
Hedonist Hollywood’s Lost Garden of Allah
Before James Dean moved into the Chateau Marmont and made it a Hollywood landmark and…
From the Brothel to Beaux-Arts: She Should Have been China’s Own Matisse
Some people paint by numbers. Formality. Then there are those who paint with something else…
A Space Pod Palace Built on a Neolithic Burial Ground Just Landed on the Market
Straight out of a science fiction novel, it’s perched ever-so delicately atop a rock formation…
The Uncomfortable Art of Falling
You can almost feel the pain from this picture, can’t you? Perhaps an uncomfortable reminder…
A Brief Compendium of Copycat Cribs
There are dream homes, and then there are homes that feel like a waking dream…
The Art of Love, by a Time Travelling Impressionist Painter
“Wait, is that a Degas? A Cassatt?” is probably something Ron Hicks gets a lot.…
Not Everyone has a “Miniatures Room”, but this Guy Does
Thierry Bosquet has decorated the world’s most iconic theatres. He grew up backstage at the opera…
Meet the Coolest Mayor in the World
Meet Jon Gnarr, mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland’s largest (and coolest) city. Photo by Aleksander Radulovic…