Diego Rivera began drawing at age three. “Just as soon as I could get my short little fat fingers around a pencil, I was drawing on everything,” he once said. Rivera covered the walls and furniture with his work, prompting his father to give him a ro

I’m frazzled, fried and flummoxed. I’m disheveled, discouraged and disagreeable – just ask my wife. What’s more, I’m bedraggled, befuddled and behaving – which is no fun at all. I admit it. If this insufferable year should suddenly meld into some kin

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sometimes we get the nicest surprises from readers, like the recent email from Bayard H. Brattstrom below. Brattstrom is a distinguished herpetologist (he studies amphibians and reptiles), professor, author, photographer and artist who

Reader Bayard H. Brattstrom, with his Home Depot T. rex, takes his fun seriously. Brattstrom, Professor of Zoology, Emeritus, California State University, Fullerton, is a pioneer in the fields of herpetological fossils and temperature regulation. He

Chanel by Warhol brought $225,000. Applause by Banksy sold for $57,500, seven times the estimate. ■

historical silver can be maintained for years of use and enjoyment provided that some basic care and attention is given to their preservation. The conservation staff at The Henry Ford has compiled this information to help people care for their object

ansel Adams once said, “When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.” Although surrounded by a natural wonderland most of his life, primarily his beloved American West, the

a wardrobe staple that was big from Victorian times through the 1950s has been making a comeback amid the pandemic: the house dress. With COVID-19 causing more people to work from home and stay at home in general, house dresses are emerging as the t

Freedom From Want, with its traditional Thanksgiving setting, is one of Norman Rockwell’s “Four Freedoms” illustrations that ran in successive issues of The Saturday Evening Post in 1943. Employing his own Arlington, Vermont, neighbors as subjects, t

LONG BEFORE JERRY SEINFELD became comically rich and famous with a sitcom about nothing, there was Charles Schulz, the man who gave us Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the Peanuts gang. Schulz, a son of a barber who grew up in St. P