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I had a bad day on Thursday. I started writing about three different posts, and each one had to be mercy-killed. Nothing else was going right, either. I went to Best Buy to get three different things and came away... show less

"Where my father used to work" by Andreas Sakka This was taken in the summer of 2010 from the fourth floor of my Dad's seafront property in the town of Margate in England (postal code CT9 1UN to be precise).... show less

The McNay Mansion, San Antonio This week's column by Ctein Mike's recent post on Dave Hickey and the comments that followed made me realize that there's actually quite a bit I have to say on the subject of good art... show less

Past print sale: regarding the recent Caponigro Father/Son print sale, I've received word that all the prints are made and about a quarter have already shipped, which is fast work. We'll post another update when all the shipments have been... show less

Enthusiastically noted: Peter Turnley's new book goes on sale today. ...Which is going to be great fun to watch. I can't pretend to be anything close to objective here. I've been hearing about this book for years, since it was... show less

One of the first weirdnesses I noticed after I was hired as a magazine editor is that certain very talented photographers "hide their light under a bushel"—that is, they stay private and reticent—and others push relentlessly and aggressively to publicize... show less

Miller often woke up early to get the fire going in the old logging camp's ancient stone fire pit, and Pat awoke under the trees to the crisp fall cold and the smell of bacon sizzling in the skillet. •... show less

The critic Dave Hickey has announced his sort-of retirement: I'm retiring because my time is up. Last summer I wrote catalogue pieces on Ken Price and John Chamberlain. They were both my friends and my essays turned out to be... show less

With Trees: Photography by Dav Thomas. Triplekite Publishing, July 2013 Luxury Edition (limited to 30 copies) £125 [sold out] Special Edition (limited to 50 copies) £75 Standard Edition £40 Available from the publisher Reviewed by Geoff Wittig Trees are a... show less

Zowie, I get ALL the fun today. How great to get to look through so many fine pictures. Thanks for all the submissions so far. I think I might have found two for the book already! Keep 'em coming. Thanks... show less

As I mentioned two weeks ago, I'm looking for pictures for TOP's first book, which has the working title "Quiet Color." (A working title, if you don't know the term, is a tentative title which might or might not become... show less

This week's column by Ctein Gentle readers, this is another one of those odd 'n' ends columns in which I revisit topics of previous discussion. This time, it's mostly about correcting errors in what I've written previously. Yes, it does... show less

Photographer and visual artist Carrie Mae Weems is among the winners of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowships, the so-called "genius grant" that now awards recipients $625,000 free of conditions. An art-insider friend who shall remain nameless comments, "Not exactly a [surprise]... show less

In a fascinating but anecdotal (and probably ultimately pointless) experiment, psychologists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland averaged the faces of young women from around the globe to create "averaged" faces of various nations. Note that "averaged" is not... show less

Emie in the Truck, Rockport, Maine, 2008. Photo by Cig Harvey So I spent a good part of yesterday on an extended web-surfing odyssey looking at the work of a great many contemporary portraitists to see if their subjects are... show less