The ads are so good the tourism bureau in Colorado, one state over, rolled out a series of ads this year that looked to me like complete knockoffs.

Where there is regional flavoring, it tends to be of the North Woods high kitsch variety, which makes for a somewhat jarring visual experience.

You can find everything from original paintings and photographs to prints, drawings, murals and sculptures that run the gamut from tacky to irreplaceable.

For my money the most profound meeting of public space and private lives is in our cemeteries.

It’s one of the few neighborhoods that completely steps off the grid and throws off the alphabetical-numerical nomenclature of the rest of Minneapolis.

The artists I met in Philadelphia had very different relationships with space from their colleagues in this part of the country.

Let it never be said that I am not a temperamentally populist admirer of all forms of creative activity.

On a summer evening right before a game, the area outside Target Field is a lively, exciting place to be. That is, within certain parameters.

Here is a sampling of the folders in just a single row: cotton, country stores, cowboys, cowgirls, crate labels, Crete, Cretan antiquities, cricket, crime and criminals, Croatia, and cross-dressing.