KATYA REIMANN ◦ WRITER & ARTIST

No doubt I have made errors in transliteration, but here is a lovely piece by the Italian poet Petronilla Paolini Massimi (1663-1728), as...

I was grown before I learned about the eastern european blessing of the Easter basket, with its carefully enumerated collection of...

Ivana Kupala Day is celebrated in Ukraine July 6-7. It's more a festival than a holiday: the celebrations' roots are ancient, as a...

One of my favorite artists is John Singer Sargent, who is best known, perhaps, for his society paintings. "Portrait of Madame X,"...

If you are told that such a one speaks ill of you, make no excuses against what was said, but answer, "He was ignorant of my other...

My mother took this photograph of me and my Dad in 2016. We were visiting the William Merritt Chase exhibition at the Boston MFA. We got...

I am disgusted by Wikipedia's entry. Largely because I have been trying to find a book which I think is called Tales of a Persian...

I find these forms irresistible. This one => is in the Wallace Collection in London, England. I'll be visiting London in January, 2020...

I ordered it about a week back. My childhood copy had gone missing. I love Paul Gallico's writing. He's probably known best these days...

I still play the game "what piece of art would I take home with me?" when I visit museums or galleries. This year, I found myself...