An Antiquarian's Tale

Mass manufacture certainly changed the world of craft, but did it make it better? This is an age old question. When you think about the time saving a simple planer...

Opening up to an aesthetic that you may not understand at first glance is one method for educating an eye for details in things that you already like. It sounds...

I made my first visit to Barcelona this summer as the Annual General Meeting of CINOA (Confederation Internationale des Negociants en Oeuvres d'Art), the international federation of dealer groups of...

The ability, or even the desire, to see the other side of a story--it's actually not a binary choice as there are many sides to most stories--is part of the...

The sunrise one day last spring was streaked with red reminding me of two of my favorite epithets from "The Odyssey",  "the rosy fingered dawn", and "the wine dark sea",...

Last week, I wrote that people buying and selling have what I would call a moral obligation to treat each other fairly. This is where human nature runs into a...