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For a long time, the focus on visual art in the Upper Valley has been on institution building.It’s worth remembering that the Hood Museum of Art opened in 1985, less than 40 years ago, and AVA Gallery and Art Center will celebrate its 50th anniversary...

Nothing sends an English major running to the encyclopedia quite like a mathematical concept.In his clever 2015 play Heisenberg, now in production at Northern Stage, Simon Stephens never mentions Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle by name, but it...

There’s a modest and charming irony in Molly Longwell’s plan to shoot a film in her hometown.Living in Brooklyn during the coronavirus pandemic, Longwell, a Thetford native, found herself thinking about isolation and about how a life-changing event...

Paltrow's art mystery burns up Twitter. Plus, a Williamstown Theatre Festival update and parsing Duke Ellington's legacy, in our weekly arts newsletter.

One of the first Hood exhibitions I wrote about was “Fred Wilson: So Much Trouble in the World — Believe It or Not!” at the end of 2005. Wilson, a conceptual artist and curator, was given free rein to assemble the objects in the Hood’s collections in...

ENFIELD — Shaker Bridge Theatre has canceled its production of Lungs, a two-person show that was slated to open Feb. 3.Director and Shaker Bridge founder Bill Coons is fighting off an infection in both of his ears that has caused “total hearing loss,”...

When Peggy O’Neil, executive director of WISE, approached Carol Dunne, artistic director of Northern Stage, to talk about whether the two organizations might work together, they thought, naturally, that the result would be a theater production of some...

Since 2014, Northern Stage has dedicated a piece of January to developing new plays in a series of readings called “New Works Now.”Thanks to the current spike in coronavirus cases, this year’s installment will have to be more of a “New Works...

It’s easy to forget that Vermont, and probably New Hampshire too, once moved at a much slower pace. For some residents, not much moved at all other than time and the seasons.Even in the 1970s and ’80s, people who grew up in the hills on subsistence...

Perhaps the most affecting piece in Volume II of the Vermont Almanac is a compact essay by Tom Slayton about Vermont Life.Slayton edited the state-owned magazine from 1985 to 2007, nearly a third of its 72-year life span. Started in 1946 as a way to...