Laura Radwell's Photo Abstractions

Laura Radwell's Photo Abstractions

by | Mar 9, 2012 | Arts

Artist Laura Radwell offers “photo abstractions” responding to the Berlin Wall in an exhibition that runs through the end of March. Through March 31, Amherst Town Hall, 4 Boltwood Ave., Amherst.

On the Horizon

by | Jan 5, 2012 | Arts

New England doesn’t exactly have a reputation as a likely setting for disasters. We aren’t dead center on a faultline; we’re well out of reach of most hurricanes; tornado alley is far away. It’s hard to find a poisonous snake, even. Outside of...
Art in Paradise: Old House, New Art

Art in Paradise: Old House, New Art

by | Dec 29, 2011 | Arts

Holyoke’s Wistariahurst Museum is a gorgeous place. Built in the 1860s in Williamsburg, later dismantled and moved to Holyoke, Wistariahust was the imposing home of the Skinner family, well-heeled silk manufacturers. It’s an old-school mansion, the sort of...
Art in Paradise: Thicker Skin

Art in Paradise: Thicker Skin

by | Dec 15, 2011 | Arts

The word “quilting” tends to bring up images of industrious grandmothers, so it’s probably not the first thing that comes to mind as a medium for a fine-art examination of childhood abuse. But for artist Lisa Foster, reproduction quilting fabrics...

Tipping Over Trashcans

by | Oct 27, 2011 | Arts

The Brattleboro Literary Festival has packed authors and readers into downtown Brattleboro for a decade now. It’s clearly a huge undertaking—it’s daunting, maybe even frightening, to think of so many writers (nearly 40 this year) in one small area...