Page 2 - Open Wall News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Our Pandemic Year: A mother’s indomitable spirit Photograph courtesy of Diane Kemble Published: 3/3/2021 8:56:32 PM Modified: 3/3/2021 8:56:29 PM Editor’s note: In anticipation of the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic’s arrival in the Upper Valley, we asked Valley News readers to reflect on the last 12 months. By DIANE KEMBLE I kept hearing the word “resilient” and thought about how perfectly that word describes my mother, born in 1911. I decided to make a handmade book about her life, My Resilient Mother. I made paste papers in a springy pattern, a way of showing resil...

Barbara Rose THERE ARE FEW INSTANCES IN WHICH the critic has to evaluate work that has had some special personal significance for him; but those instances are often the most challenging. When I abandoned the provinces, I came to New York to study the Old Masters. But Morningside Heights soon proved less compelling than 57th Street. This was something I couldn’t justify for a long time. One day, however, I saw abstract paintings that succeeded in preserving many of the qualities I admired in the Old Masters—especially the lightness and airiness of th...