Lost in Translation

Best use of a letter-form in national branding: Viking sword and two axe-blades form the outline of a stylized  Þ ("thorn") at...

This mysterious sculpture is entitled "Antipodes" (Sam Sanborn, 1997) and it stands the garden outside the Hirshhorn Museum. Th...

I spotted this handwritten notecard in an English/Chinese phrasebook in a used bookstore today. The prior owner (user) of this book has i...

Sundial, Smithsonian Castle Garden, August 5, 2012. 1:15 pm. Latin inscription (left on this photo): Aspice, Respice, Prospice   = "...

Commemorative quarters for Hawaii, DC, and other US territories, photo taken mid-2009. Early in 2009 some media outlets were reporting on ...

The US Mint began its State Quarters Program in 1999, issuing commemorative coins in the order in which each state entered the Union. The s...

I've already posted about the National Statuary Hall Collection , but I thought I should follow up with one more statue. Helen Keller, w...

Georgetown, July 2011 [click image to enlarge]. These cheerful green buses can be found all around DC as part of Germany's "do D...

During a visit to the Freer Gallery of Art last year, I came across this 13th-century scroll painting that depicts the art of Chinese silkwe...

DC's system for naming its streets is distinctive. Streets running east-west take letter names (A, B, C, etc.) and streets running north...