Counterlight's Peculiars

  The Virgin of Vladimir is the most famous and most revered of Russian icons, described as the "Palladium of Russia" (a protectiv...

 

The elaborate Baroque exterior of the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Kyiv conceals a well preserved Byzantine church from the 11th century, am...

Liberal Democracy has been out of fashion for a long time, and now it's under attack.  It lost its academic respectability long before J...

  Yesterday in Times Square.  A photo posted on Facebook by the Veselka Restaurant, a Ukrainian restaurant that has long been an institution...

  Red Rose Sonata, 1972 I discovered Alma Thomas by accident a few years ago in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  I saw this painting Red Ros...

Before there was Pierre et Gilles, before there was David LaChapelle, before there was Cindy Sherman, there was James Bidgood with his camer...