Sometimes things are sweet just because they’re small. I love art pottery, and I don’t think pieces have to be big to show off. A small piece of clay in the right creative hands can yield treasures. I come across…
Miniature pottery
Posted in Art
Month: September 2009
When I started out as a journalist some years ago, I wrote my stories on an electric typewriter. We reporters would type our stories and hand them to our editors who’d scribble all over them with their pens,…
Chinese art screens
Posted in Art
A couple months ago, one of my favorite auction houses featured one of its big Gallery Auctions, with the focus on what it called “Orientalia.” It had over 500 lots of Asian screens, artwork, furniture, carvings…
Old family photos
Posted in Photos
Some years ago when I was a reporter in my hometown of Macon, Ga., I was one of a team working on a series of stories on Blacks in Macon. During one of my interviews,…
Sometimes when I’m at an auction, the color or shape of a thing stops me. Take cobalt blue, for example. There’s no color to match it for its bold beauty and striking complexity. What color blue is it?…
Cartoonist Bo Brown’s ink drawings
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I had never heard of a cartoonist named Bo Brown. But when I came across some of his original pen drawings among some papers I picked up at one of my auctions, I knew I…
As one who goes to auctions often, I always check every item I buy to see what’s been left behind. At the bottom of the leather pouch of a Canon zoom lens (FD 100-200mm f5.6)…
Yesterday, Sept. 2, was the 64th anniversary of the end of World War II. Did you know that? I should’ve remembered. Not because I was around at the time but because I had read about…
Finding “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Posted in Books
At a recent auction, I had shuffled through a table of books – big, heavy books on a range of subjects. I didn’t see anything among them that grabbed my eye. So I wandered off…