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Art historian Jeff Wassmann surveys the era of the pioneering, if apocryphal, Leipzig modernist and sewerage engineer Johann Dieter Wassmann (1841-1898).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Dieter_Wassmann
...my daughter at the de Young Museum, San Francisco
December 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Frankfurt to Dubai along the northern border of Iraq and Iran, 13 hours on to Melbourne and nearly the same bleary-eyed in the darkroom.
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
A rainy morning in Kassel but the sun shineth on Joseph Beuys’ ‘7000 Eichen’. Beuys ambition to plant 7000 oaks, each paired with a basalt stone, began with Documenta 7 in 1982. 40 years on, Beuys’ legacy of ‘social sculpture’ feels more relevant than ever.
November 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Mushrooms in the Gespensterwald Nienhagen 🍄‍🟫
(that’s the Baltic peeking through on the left).
November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
An acorn-fed pig is often described as an olive tree with legs. The fat is rich in healthy oleic acid, similar to that found in olive oil, making the olive tree a fair comparison.
Ivernack, Mecklenburg
November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Twelve-o’clock noon in the Jacobskirche Weimar bell tower.
October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
… and of course, the Bauhaus Museum Weimar café.
October 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Back in Weimar… of course, Weimar.
October 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
‘War-ravaged’ Portland airport a couple weeks ago.

SOUND UP (the pianist singing I Can’t Tell You Why by The Eagles is pretty good… and apropos.)
September 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
My kids, NGA, Washington, D.C., 2011
September 16, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Old growth stumps, Tillamook State Forest, Oregon.
August 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Kelly’s Marina, Brighton, Oregon.
August 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
19 August 2025. Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon.
August 20, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Vancouver to Portland.
August 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Attributed: Frederick Alexcee (1854-1944), txaldzap'am nagyeda laxa (carved wooden angel), baptismal font, 1886. Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
August 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A couple of Arthur Erickson’s fabulous buildings in Vancouver: the MacMillan Bloedel, 1968 and the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, 1976, inspired by the post-and-beam architecture of the northern Northwest Coast First Nations people.
August 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Bone Box, 2007.

Spending a few days in Vancouver dodging the raindrops but managed to fit in a morning at the Museum of Anthropology.
August 16, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hayley Millar Baker, Eternity the Butterfly, 2025 (video).

The Veil, Hannah Presley, curator. Buxton Contemporary, University of Melbourne.
June 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
June 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Jeanine Leane, Seeds of Hope, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 2025.

Professor Leane is a Wiradjuri poet and academic from south-west New South Wales.
June 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Like it was yesterday. Here's me at the foot of Lenin, eight years after the sculpture's inauguration.

Leninplatz, East Berlin, 1978.
June 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Lou Picek of Main Street Antiques and Art, West Branch, Iowa, celebrates 50 years in the business this Friday at 10:00 am. If you’re west of the Mississippi, do stop in (I’ve been stopping in for 40 of those years). Lou is also a widely collected painter, with work in the American Folk Art Museum.
June 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Still in Iowa. Churnin’ through the cherries. 🍒
June 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Iowa. June 10, 2025.
June 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
West Liberty, Iowa
June 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM