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ESTUARY 2021 is a large-scale live and online arts festival which will see over 90 works and events presented in outdoor locations across Essex and Kent, from Shoeburyness to Tilbury, from Gravesend to Margate; including Wat Tyler Country Park, Pitsea and Southend on Sea in Essex: The programme extends from the most easterly points of the Thames as it merges with the North Sea, and into London, with programme at Lesnes Abbey Woods. The newly announced programme adds to a line-up of over 70 con...

Eddy County oil and gas tax collections and gross receipts taxes (GRT) increased from February to March equaling more money for county services.

Yet this shrill outcry fails to acknowledge that even the markedly lower numbers still represent a 10-fold increase from six month ago. And though trading volume has drifted down from 40,000 to 20,000 transactions per week in the same period, it still stands well above levels only a short time ago. Will prices vacillate? Of course they will! To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the value of good art, digital or otherwise, will never drop—but in the interim, the prices just might. Regarding the overall...

Laughable or laudable? George W Bush’s strange, artistic second act Since his secret passion was exposed by a hacker, Bush has painted dogs, world leaders, and now immigrants. What is he trying to tell us? 21 April 2021 • 12:54pm President George W Bush at work on portraits for his new book Out of Many, One Credit: CA Smith Photography George W Bush, the former US president, is enjoying a second career as a painter. His new book, Out of Many, One: Portraits of American Immigrants, publishe...

Berry Campbell is pleased to present Lilian Thomas Burwell: Soaring. This exhibition marks the esteemed Maryland-based artist’s first solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition title, Soaring, is an homage to the late Dr. David Driskell’s essay,  Soaring With a Painterly Voice, written on the occasion of Burwell’s 1997 survey exhibition at Hampton University Museum, Virginia. Driskell described Burwell’s work as, “transcendental in showing stylistic diversity of earthly beauty and...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal's art made his scientific discoveries legendary.

Lindsy Manceaux talks to a passing customer as she wipes down tables Friday afternoon outside of Louisiana Lindsys Cajun Provisions in downtown Steamboat Springs. (Photo by John F. Russell) STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — After more than a year of masks, social distancing and shifting every aspect of life, the Routt County Board of Health on Friday expressed optimism and voted on a revised public health order that could return the county to complete normalcy — meaning a life without masks, social dista...

The documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts opens with a quotation from Vincent van Gogh, suggesting that people often live unaware of the artists among them. That could be said about Bill Traylor (around 1853-1949), who was born a slave and made pictures in his 80s on the sidewalks of Montgomery, Alabama. The film-maker Jeffrey Wolf explores Traylor’s personal and often playful iconography of animals, people and farm tools, in a blend of choreographed forms, earthy spirituality and ...

Across discarded scraps of cardboard – candy-box tops, old window advertisements – swept memories from his plantation days and scenes of the rapidly shifting cityscape swirling about him. More than a thousand striking, minimalist artworks flowed from his hands in the three years between 1939 and 1942, a rich trove that remains the only significant body of drawings and paintings by a person enslaved at birth. The new film Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts introduces to a wider audience one ...

Gross receipts tax revenue in Eddy County stabilized in February after falling during the early stages of the 2020.