I figured out a way to get the squirrels in my backyard to dance, and I'll show you how. They climb up on a platform painted like a ...

I'm sad to hear that Walt Reed, renowned historian of American illustration, died early this morning. Walt Reed, painted by James Gu...

Count Robert de Montesquiou (1855-1921) was a French aesthete, poet, and art collector.  He was spiffy dresser. At a concert of music by...

This week we aired Episode 7 of the serialized audio dramatization of  Dinotopia: The World Beneath, but we're sorry, the episode was on...

Edit: Here are the results of the poll. Thanks for voting. Congratulations to the three top vote-getters—Neeraj, Emmanuel, and Leigh Ann, wh...

Houses that have survived northern winters are like old sailing ships that have crossed the ocean. They're leaky and battered, with t...

This car ad  (visible here on YouTube)  is less about the car than it is about visual perception. The ad shows four buildings on a street i...

The ice is breaking up on the Hudson River. Hudson Ice,  Gouache, 5 x 8 inches, 1.5 hours  Blocks of ice the size of houses drift slowl...

In March of 1956,  Harvey Dinnerstein  and his friend Burton Silverman  traveled to Montgomery, Alabama to sketch the civil rights movement ...

At my friend James Warhola's house, I sketched his Welsh corgi named Maya.  She wondered why I was giving her so much attentio...