SHADOW OF A DOUBT

  A Bigger Splash (1967) I instinctively knew I was going to like it and as I flew over San Bernardino and saw the swimming pools and the ho...

  New Year's Eve couldn't come sooner! After all, it's been 365 days of rising prices, heightened international tensions, increa...

  I've grown a goiter by dwelling in this den– As cats from stagnant streams in Lombardy, Or in what other land they hap to be– Which dr...

  I'll write about the bounced commies and Luke Short's new western some other time. For now I want you to focus solely on Norman Ro...

  Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather , 1896 The theme is the bridge near the Place de la Bourse with the effects of rain, crowds of peop...

1943-2024 Comedian, actor, musician, and, having spent part of his childhood in the area, Cleveland booster Martin Mull died this past Thurs...

  There ain't no cure for the summertime blues. Sea Watchers , 1952. Edward Hopper

  French artist  Pierre-Auguste  Renoir was born on this day in 1841 (he died in 1919.) Let's take a brief look at what's probably h...

  Such exquisite detail. What lifelike touches. A masterpiece of accumulation. The above photo first appeared in an 1892 edition of Strand ...

 Pablo Picasso (seen here with son Claude and daughter Paloma) may have been a great artist, but he just couldn't decide what Santa Clau...

  Summer Days , 1936 I know we're well into autumn now, but artist Georgia O'Keeffe was born on this day in 1887, and that's as ...

  I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa. --Grant Wood, on his famous 1930 painting American Gothic , so-called because the window on the ...