Sundance has found a new home, or at least a second home, in New Mexico. Call the picture Bill Richardson and the Sundance Kid. With the states purchase of the 148-acre Cabot ranch, Los Luceros,  in …

The Equitable Building, a 12-story office tower for the insurance company of the same name, always caught my eye when I lived and worked in Portland in the early 1970s.  Its gleaming green glass and aluminum …

Im not a big fan of Jerry Jones, the hovering owner of the Dallas Cowboys who thinks hes as qualified to be on the field coaching as his coaches. But I found a recent quote by …

Where did it all begin? The Philadelphia native Benjamin West was known for irreverent remarks and upstart costume dramas. As a raw youth visiting Rome, West observed that the Apollo Belvedere sculpture he encountered at the …

From 1967 to 1977, a clutch of hardened former student protesters, led by an earnest journalist (Ulrike Meinhof), a charismatic thug (Andreas Baader) and a blonde ministers daughter (Gudrun Ensslin) held Germany hostage with bombings and …

So begins the operating assumption of Inglourious Basterds, a Holocaust film that thrusts the unthinkable on the audience by throwing it in their face and rewriting history with a flamethrower. The “Basterds,” as this melodramas hype …

Artist Jay De Feo was for the duration of her life associated with the Bay Area, and sometimes mistaken, by her name, for a man (some speculate that being named Jay helped her win the 1951 …

A long wait at the DMV, while my 17-year-old son took his driving test, was interrupted by a tweet on my Blackberry. It was Tyler Green sending a link to Blake Gopniks recent Washington Post article …

“No Discipline” is a journey through Ron Arads designs, from battle-worn chairs and sound systems to his steel-ribboned and forthcoming Design Museum Holon in Israel, his birthplace. True to form, Arad is confounding his visitors at …

Robert Stones new documentary, Earth Days, opens this week, as opponents of global warming seem to have found a new “scientific” truth to attack: the birth of Barack Obama in the United States. The closing film …