Antiquities | Antiquities
Dec.01.2009
Among the collection of small collections that I’ve accumulated willy-nilly over the years is a group of ancient Roman brooches.
Each item in this menagerie is interesting enough to merit its own blog post. But there’s one brooch that I particularly like because within its contours lies an...
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Oct.15.2009
A so-called “bilingual” Attic vase speaks two visual languages. One side is painted in the older "black-figure" style, the other side with the newer—and for us, more familiar—"red-figure" style.
Tetraktys mentions such a vase in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It depicts the...
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Sep.17.2009
Mike Orenduff came honestly to a love for the American Southwest, growing up so close to the Rio Grande that he could "Frisbee a flour tortilla into Mexico." The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagorus is an homage to Albuquerque (Duke City) and to the wondrous state of New Mexico, the Land of...
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Aug.12.2009
Among the collection of small collections that I’ve accumulated willy-nilly over the years is a group of ancient Roman brooches.
Each item in this menagerie is interesting enough to be the centerpiece of its own blog post. But there’s one brooch that I particularly like because within its...
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Jul.28.2008
Dear red room readers: here's a bit from my regular blog, www.waxword.net, where I talk about Hollywood, the world of entertainment and media and, occasionally, the world of stolen antiquities. sw.
Programming: Reliable Sources on Sunday
Tune in to Howard Kurtz's "Reliable Sources" on...
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