by Paul OConnor | Oct 4, 2020 | Features
In the high desert of northern New Mexico, sculptor and photographer Paul O’Connor takes in his friend Debbie Long’s immersive installation. “Trippy” barely begins to describe the experience. By Paul O’Connor Several months have...
by Ann Landi | Oct 3, 2020 | Features
Compared with the duration of empires past—like those of ancient Rome or Great Britain—the U.S. occupies a relatively tiny span of time, a little more 234 years as the great democratic experiment, if we date the founding of the country to 1776. And so our monuments...
by Ann Landi | Sep 20, 2020 | Features
Everyone is a winner in the competition to replace those tired, toppled memorials In the wake of the murder of George Floyd in May, protesters around the globe tore down monuments to the Confederacy, to slave traders, and to racist baddies of all stripes. I could not...
by Ann Landi | Sep 20, 2020 | Features
Frances Ashforth’s fascination with water, sky, and undulating landscapes began early. Raised in a family of artists, she spent time as a child at her grandparents’ farm in New Hampshire, along the Connecticut River Valley. She is an avid fly fisherman and in her...
by Ann Landi | Sep 6, 2020 | Features
Artists talk about altered states during the pandemic We are now about seven months into a worldwide catastrophe that has affected nearly every fiber and facet of our being. Many of us have been sheltering in place, limiting our contacts with the outside world,...
by Ann Landi | Aug 23, 2020 | Features
Almost five years ago I published a post about art advisers, those hard-working middlemen and women who match up artists with corporate clients, budding collectors, or homeowners in the throes of renovation. Enough has changed since that time that the subject seemed...
