Lamont Gallery News Today

A roundup of art and culture news happening on the Seacoast

Alexander Lamont Gallery is holding "Scent And The Power Of The Senses", a workshop that celebrates the olfactory arts, on Sunday at 2pm.

A roundup of arts and culture news on the Seacoast.

A roundup of arts and culture news on the Seacoast.

I’m a sucker for old musty magazine articles about Portsmouth, the mustier the better. This one has the distant scent of mildew and White Owl Panetelas. I paid too much for it since the story about Portsmouth runs only three pages out of 130 total. This 1955 issue of “New England Journeys,” however, has a lot to offer on the history of Portsmouth tourism, one of my favorite topics. As I noted earlier this week we became “The City of the Open Door” in the early 1920s. The slogan, crea...

Gossip: Creating a place for the arts to collaborate Jeanné McCartin Some major moves have taken place at the New Hampshire Theatre Project the past few weeks.  The big news is the departure of Artistic Director Catherine Stewart.  "A lot of people automatically assumed Catherine was going to be my successor when she took the artistic directors job. But from the start it was our understanding, clear to us but not to the outside, she came on to do a number of things to prepare for succession...