Month: April 2021
(Art) The Deeply Human Fantasy of Ausonia
Blending the classical Italian style (including quite a bit of portraiture) with modern and fantasy themes, Florentine artist Ausonia — the ancient Greek name for lower Italy — imbues his creations with stunning depth and […]
(Sunday Thought) The Midas Mustache, or Death and the Rapture of Life
An old college buddy, now a lawyer, called me circa 2006 to tell me that the prop plane out of which I had jumped a few years earlier had crashed, killing two people. There was […]
(Art) I’ve got big balls
No, it’s true. Sixty-one of them, in fact, by nearly as many artists, which is why this is one of those rare times I won’t credit them all. (If you want to know the origin […]
