While the pursuit of beauty may offer temptation to the ego, deliberate avoidance of beauty is simply the other side of the coin and does not offer an escape from this same temptation.

Museums asserting copyright over the works of long-dead masters.

Some interesting items in environmental news today. The Natural Resources Defense Council along with an impressive coalition of conservation groups has released…

Extracting visual data from MrSID seamless image databases.

On some very provocative essays about art from Hermann Broch.

Romanticism, landscape photography, and Isaiah Berlin.

Looking at two photographs of the same subject, shot on the the same day, by the same photographer, but from two contrasting points of view.