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It’s always interesting to me when events happen in pairs. Earlier this month, two public art projects came to a successful conclusion on opposite sides of the Upper Valley.Newport’s Library Arts Center coordinated a remaking of the Newport Heritage...

During the second half of the Trump years, Andy Borowitz went on a comedy tour called “Make America Not Embarrassing Again.” If this sounds like a partisan enterprise, it kind of was. In his act, Borowitz, the celebrated name behind the satirical...

When I think of country music, the classic line from The Blues Brothers comes to mind: “We’ve got both kinds of music: country and western.” That quip is perfect in the way it captures the blinkered nature of an artform that seems incapable of...

A phrase I’ve often heard in reference to Lois Dodd’s work is “deceptively simple.” In fact, there it is, right at the beginning of the wall text for “Natural Order,” a retrospective of Dodd’s work at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vt....

A surreal spider-woman welcomes visitors to this year’s edition of Sculpturefest, the annual outdoor exhibition on the property of Charlet and Peter Davenport in Woodstock. The sun-dappled spider was situated under a big willow tree and presided over...

For the first few years running his own theater company, Jarvis Green felt he had to be churning out work, staying in the public eye.There’s a startup business logic at work: A doughnut shop that isn’t always making doughnuts isn’t going to last long,...

Printmaking is a loose term for a variety of techniques in which a plate or some other type of original is used to make multiple images. It’s been used for centuries as a way to broadcast stories and ideas: Think medieval engraved manuscripts,...

Juried exhibitions are opportunities for both emerging and established artists to show their work, both to the public and to jurors, who are frequently people who hold leadership positions in the arts. Acceptance into these shows, an achievement in...

Maybe it’s something to do with the newfound ease people are feeling about the coronavirus pandemic, whether warranted or not. This summer, theater companies are lofting music into the air.New London Barn Playhouse is celebrating its 90th summer by...

To borrow a sentence from the irresistible cookbook and children’s book author Ann Hodgman, I’m embarrassed to write something about a catalog for an art show I haven’t gone to see, but not so embarrassed that I’m not going to write it anyway.Hodgman...