Carol Diehl's Art Vent

I have more to say about Generation Blank , but while I'm forming my thoughts, I'll share more photos of the Icelandic landscape by ...

Readers of this blog know that I'm a big fan of Iceland, as well as Icelander  Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon 's photographs.. Here are ...

I’m back. Sort of. Some moving parts may still be hovering over the Atlantic. Usually blog posts just come bubbling out of me, but in this h...

All images: Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon , 2010. Thanks to reader, Sid Garrison , for linking me with Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon and th...

Which comes first, the artist or the landscape? I remember being profoundly disappointed when I went to Aix-en-Provence and discovered that ...

Flying into Keflavik at 11:00 p.m. Our cabin at the Motel Alex near the airport, around 1:00 a.m., with campers sleeping in tents all arou...

Just back from Iceland, I segued into being so absorbed with painting that I don’t want to stop even to eat or go to the bathroom. But I kno...

The Blue Lagoon, January 2004 I'm off to Iceland on Friday for a whirlwind trip with Erica and Terry to shoot background landscape for o...

I was in Iceland all last night, in my dreams. Before going to sleep I watched Part II of Heima , the gorgeous Sigur Ros film (more like a ...

This morning at breakfast, with my houseguests Einar and Manuela , the conversation turned to elections, Nixon, and then Nixon‘s summit mee...

Last week I saw the Kronos Quartet perform at Tanglewood , part of wanting to support the festival in going beyond their classical-music-as...

I hardly ever recall my dreams, but when I do they’re almost always the same. Except for the ones where I’m in a public place without my clo...

Le mur vegetal, Musee du Quai Branly. (Photo: Julie Ardery ) I know I'm not supposed to like Jean Nouvel's Musee du Quai Branly jus...

Photo: Carol Diehl, Iceland, 2006 When I wrote the post below, I assumed that the siding on the house inside the dome was not wood but meta...

Alexandra and her Saarinen Womb chair (see Making it hers , below) reminded me of another modernist icon, the geodesic dome, specifically th...