Maid of the Mist approaches the Rainbow Bridge. Niagara Falls, 2024.

Among all the outstanding works I saw at the Corning Museum, this was one of the most impressive. Outwardly a modest genre painting, this turns out not to be a painting at all, but a mosaic— a micromosaic, to be specific. The picture is made up of thousands of tiny glass rods bundled together and […]

Another Banksy rat, this one found in the elevator of the Fenimore Museum. I admit I don’t know what the hell is going on here, The rat seems to have a cassette recorder strapped to his chest, and his face is— exploding?— undergoing transformation? His paintbrush(?) also seems to have suffered. Your guess is as […]

Some of you should recognize this. It’s at the Corning Museum of Glass. I’d ask something like “what is this?”, but it would open the doors to floods of Cyrillic spam, so it’ll have to remain a mental exercise. UPDATE: If any of you guessed that this was the Periodic Table of the Elements, you’d […]