The Harvesters by the Netherlandish painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, is part of a series of six works commissioned by the Antwerp merchant, Niclaes Jongelinck, for his suburban home. The paintings show the times of the year, and this rural scene of the Low...
Chopin’s monument in Warsaw is deeply ingrained in every Pole’s memory and heart—as it is in the memory and heart of Dariusz Skoraczewski, the principal cello of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The statue is located in a big park where many outdoor concerts take...
This picture from September 1994 shows professional photographer, Vince Lupo, and his father at Tybee Island, GA. Just one month before, Vince had moved from Toronto, Ontario, in Canada to attend graduate school at the Savannah College of Art and Design. “It was a...
Sujata Massey is the award-winning author of the Rei Shimura mystery series set in Japan, and of suspense and mystery fiction set in late British colonial India. In the fourteen novels that Sujata has written over the last twenty years, she’s been interested in...
Although you wouldn’t know it to look at it, this photograph was taken shortly after Maria Lucia Silva Jaimes had gone through a difficult and scary health episode. She was living in the U.S. at the time, and she went through it without telling her family back in...
This quintessential photograph is a strong reminder – both literally and symbolically – of where Minás Konsolas came from. It is of his mother, in a moment that can never be recreated, in their family home in Olymbos Karpathos, Greece. The phrase, “Go West, young...
