A Deeper Value

A Deeper Value

by | Jul 29, 2010 | Arts

Laura Stevenson’s new novel Return in Kind tells the story of two broken middle-aged college academics—she has lost her hearing and career, he is a widower—and how, through unraveling the tragic, generations-old mystery hidden in a rural Vermont...

Art in Paradise: The Donzerly Light

by | Jul 22, 2010 | Arts

Recently, our day of independence from Britain arrived. It’s a day which brings a bit of a conundrum for fans of thinkers like the late historian and World War II bombardier Howard Zinn, who had this to say about nationalism in The Progressive magazine:...
Like Water

Like Water

by | Jul 15, 2010 | Arts

Water indeed reflects heaven because my mind does—such is its own serenity—its transparency—and stillness. —Henry David Thoreau “I suppose I have always had a sick fascination in depicting catastrophes, and the flood of 1955 was...
Art in Paradise: Teabags of Angst

Art in Paradise: Teabags of Angst

by | Jul 8, 2010 | Arts

The artist signs her work “Megrit.” An attempt, one figures, to align herself with Magritte, that master of surrealism and bowlers who captured on canvas one of the great moments of post-modern relativist (heck, even phenomenologist) philosophizing, a...
The Poetic Landscape

The Poetic Landscape

by | Jul 8, 2010 | Arts

For the month of July, an exhibition of contemporary New England landscape oil paintings by Christopher Volpe is featured at Vermont Artisans Gallery 2. Volpe is a “rogue art historian” who studied poetry in graduate school but found inspiration teaching...