When cinematographers talk about the inspiration for their craft, they universally utter one name: "Caravaggio."

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Innovation today doesn't ensure success tomorrow.

Photography opened the world to social analysis.

In the last couple of decades, video art has slowly been shaking off its status as stepchild.

Of Isfahan in the mid-seventeenth century, French traveler Jean Chardin wrote, “It is the grandest and the most beautiful town in the whole of the east” and its surrounding countryside “incomparable for its beauty and fertility.” Situated on the central Iranian Plain, at the vertex of trade routes, Chardin found the city a bustling hub of commerce and education as populous as London, with broad tree-edged avenues and lanes as agreeable as those in Paris ...

"Deeper than language can take us," says artist John Frame of his haunting current work.

"There is no there there," Gertrude Stein said of the Bay Area. But there, she is.