Dec 1 2008

Back in 1996, a friend of a friend of my mother’s said a painting was bringing her bad luck, so she was getting rid of it. “I’ll take it,” my mom offered. I noticed it in her ...

Feb 1 2005

“I know nothing about art. But I know what I like, at least that was what I thought when I started this book,” explains Nigel Cawthorne in the introduction to Sex Lives of the ...

Jul 1 2003

In late 1989, The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a profile of Joan Rodman of Venice, California, a psychologist whose specialty was doctoral candidates in the ...