My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

March 25, 2012 Mysterious Circumstance This time five years ago, while on the island of Sicily, . . . ...

Ice-cream Hangup, by Steven Boone I enjoy surprise in life and art. Surprise is what challenges our perception, and makes us wo...

Gondolas, Venice, Italy These days are among the slowest of the year for tourist traffic on Canyon Road in Santa Fe , New Mexico, the f...

  This time of year, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,  excitement builds in anticipation of the start of carnival. The annual event is huge, ...

Art, like life, should be free, since they are both experimental. George Santayana When you're experimenting you have to try so ma...

Yesterday's painting, oil on linen, 18 x 24 inches. Took about six hours to make. Some of my greatest pleasures come when drawing ...

It took me sixty years before I experienced being thrown out on the street. Thank God, I can laugh about it. My wife owns a home in White...

My ritual of writing a blog every week has resulted in 350 posts to date. Once the cadence established itself, remarkably it took on a li...

“All Heaven and Earth Flowered white obliterate... Snow...unceasing snow” ― Hashin, Japanese Haiku: Two Hundred Twenty Examples of Sev...

Laocoön and His Sons, Greek marble sculpture, 25 BC David , by Michaelangelo, Italy, 1501-1504 "Naked came I out of my mother...

Celebrating the festival of Diwali, Varanasi, India Have you ever gone to a movie and been the only one in the theater? The lights dim ...