Little robots of centuries past Were these the first robots? “Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend,” by Elizabeth King and W. David Bondo Wyszpolski July 26, 2023
The elegant photography of Rodney Smith A man who loved beautiful things Rodney Smith: A Leap of Faith, by Paul Martineau (Getty Publications, 248 pp; $65) Bondo Wyszpolski May 10, 2023
Artist Samuel Palmer: Entranced by Nature Rural romantic “A Memoir of Samuel Palmer,” by Samuel Palmer, A.H. Palmer, and F.G. Stephens (Getty Publications, 96 pp., $10.95) Bondo Wyszpolski February 7, 2021
Dora Maar, we hardly knew you! Can we take a rain check? Dora Maar, Surrealist painter and photographer Originally I might have titled this piece “No Bondo Wyszpolski January 21, 2021