For the first time ever the Buehler House in Orinda, CA, designed by America’s best-known architect — Frank Lloyd Wright, was open for limited public tours on July 30 and 31.  I was one of the lucky few to tour …

Twelve fabulous-looking consumer products and their forward thinking designers are currently gracing the upper right hand corner of America’s snail mail.   In a nod to great product design, The U.S. Postal Service is recognizing the cream of the crop of …

For the Wyeths, art is definitely a family affair.  In her own way, Victoria Wyeth, a fourth generation family member (daughter of Nicholas Wyeth, granddaughter of Andrew Wyeth, great-granddaughter of N.C. Wyeth, and niece of Jamie Wyeth), is carrying on …

Andy Warhol’s paintings of soup cans and Brillo boxes elevated mundane objects to high art in the 1960s.  Artist Daniel Douke continues that pop art tradition with his iconic paintings of iMac computer boxes.  Only Douke takes the object a …

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the great neo-classical temple on the banks of the Schuylkill River, recently paid homage to the early modernist painter Marc Chagall and several of his contemporaries.  The exhibition, which ran from March 1, …