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WHATEVER YOU THINK realism means, Rackstraw Downes is certainly some kind of realist—and, moreover, one whose elective subject matter is landscape. That in itself suggests a quixotic temperament in an artist born in 1939 whose immediate contemporaries include any number of abstract, Conceptual, and performance artists but few realists—at least of his stature.And even among painters pursuing realism in his generation, Downes looks like an outsider. Despite the fact that he edited a valuable ...

Bob Neuwirth, a mainstay of the New York City folk scene in the 1960s, and a collaborator with Bob Dylan, died Wednesday night at age 82.

Invergarry Hotel, situated on the A87, is currently up for sale with an asking price of more than £1.1million.

Clearly, there’s a need to honor the dead. But when and how? In a country fragmented by pandemic politics, there is no mandate for an architecture of remembrance.

'Back to basics, dissolving the printing division will allow us to focus on our core business of prepress services,' explains Robert Smithson, CEO of Trinity Graphic. For more than 50 years, Trinity Graphic has been providing prepress services to the printing industry. The company has built its reputation on delivering excellent customer service, and this move is designed to

Dismissed as the work of pranksters, these mysterious flattenings should now be seen as stunning examples of non-profit art for all, says this bestselling author, who recalls the wonder they injected into the 1980s

THE GESAMTKUNSTWERK is one of modernism’s most telling inventions. Built from dance, music, theater, and poetry, it sought to stanch the crisis of modernity with a multisensory experience: If life was breaking up—split between public and private, work and leisure—the “total work of art” promised to bind disciplines and audience together to create something like community. Beginning in 1876 under the patronage of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Richard Wagner launched a festival to stage h...

Attend a yearly music festival, raise money to help children, purchase plants and flowers, feed sharks or go to an art exhibit.

Books to recognize the Earth’s seasons, beauty, darkness, living beings, past, and future.

Celebrate National Poetry Month with our biggest list yet! It has been a delight to curate these recommendations throughout the year, and while this will