Musing on architecture and art (or the lack thereof)- an essay by Brian Keeler From Bellini to Brutalism and from Raphael to...

An essay on the sonorities of painting by Brian Keeler The term “eurythmic” embodies a fascinating concept that alludes to the underlying...

An essay on the mystery of night scenes by Brian Keeler The soft edges and the inchoate possibilities hidden in the shadows are part of...

Contemplating the impermanence of so many things- an essay by Brian Keeler As I was immersed in painting my most recent landscape, a...

Appreciating Angles and Atmospheres at the Baldwin Stairway in Ithaca- An essay on art and historical elements by Brian Keeler It is...

An essay by Brian Keeler, on the end of a scoundrel-ship - "The Denoument," is appropriate here but somehow too charitable as well, for...

From the Campagna to Cole’s Catskills - Art in Italy and America Book Review of “America’s Rome” By William L. Vance An Essay by Brian...

The Manner of Mannerism- An Homage to the Drawings of Andrea Del Sarto - an essay by Brian Keeler Andrea Del Sarto, I have often said,...

An Essay on a clash of cultures- Spiritual and artisitic with the crass, profligate and materialistic- By Brian Keeler This essay was...

A Solar Meditation- Still Life Arranged for Autumnal Light- an essay by Brian Keeler The definition of wisdom according to Dante...

Essential Ideas of the Renaissance- An essay on the timeless Philosophy of Marsillio Ficino by Brian Keeler This reflection on...

Figurative Facts and Flesh- French Connections- An essay on the human form in impressionist art- by Brian Keeler The inspiration for...

An essay reflecting on politics, poetry and painting- by Brian Keeler The art of hell is, well, a vision of a place one would not one to...

The myths we live by and the narratives that inform our experience and entire culture have long interested me. The way they align on...

Unsafe at Any Speed- LNG Transport- A Tale of Two Towns in PA - By Brian Keeler “Unsafe at Any Speed” is of course the title of the 1965...

Who are you calling an Iconoclast anyway! Well, now that I’ve been reading about iconoclasts or image smashers, it seems that the term...

On a Plinth or in a Gilded Frame- Public Art in the limelight- An essay by Brian Keeler We’ve been through some tumultuous times in...

Niccolo Machiavelli is probably on the extreme periphery of most people’s awareness today (if at all) but somehow after more than five...

An essay on making the most of social distancing, solitude in the time of a pandemic with the contemplative process of still life...

An hour of reckoning- maybe - Thoughts on plague, politics, art and renewal- An essay by Brian Keeler The ancient Greek city of Thebes is...