Art By-Products

I was rummaging through the chaotic piles of papers that my mother had accumulated. She rarely filed anything, mostly keeping financial pa...

There are plenty of nice things in New England, despite the decrepitude and infestation I have recently encountered. Older architecture o...

The Blue Princess announces: Pyra is back. Back from my tour of duty in Massachusetts helping clear out the dismal house my parents liv...

It's almost winter and Etna is erupting again. Just recently my favorite volcano, the ever-erupting Etna, put forth a blast of fire t...

Marion Zimmer Bradley, despite her serious flaws as a person and a writer, played a very important part in the evolution of fantasy and sc...

This is a study of details in the dome of Berlin Cathedral, a late 19th-early 20th century German pile that was built in the age of empire...

I just can't get enough of these structures. Built purely for practical industrial uses, they are fabulous sculptural complexities wh...