Arts & Entertainment

Published
August 22, 2010

Book Review: A treasure of architecture, art, history

“Drawing Toward Home” is the kind of book that hardly needs a review. Simply examining the volume, beautifully designed by Julia Sedykh with extraordinary architectural prints from Asher Benjamin’s “Elevation of an Ionick Front,” 1797, to Rammert W. Huygen’s “Perspective of the Harwood House,” 1973, offers a previously unavailable treasure chest of visual material. This […]
Published
August 22, 2010

Book Review: ‘Freedom’ savors the horrors of family

Jonathan Franzen returns with a monumental tale of relationship dysfunction.
Published
August 22, 2010

Classical Beat: Even in music, it can be a fruitful exercise to do the math

Lewis Kaplan, co-founder and artistic director of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, has a deservedly famous talk on J.S. Bach’s use of numerology in his musical works. I was surprised to find out last week that Debussy (and maybe Beethoven and Mozart and Schubert)) also experimented with mathematical ratios and series in at least some […]
Published
August 22, 2010

Arts Dispatches

SOUTH BRISTOL Jinishian Gallery opens location on Rutherford Island The J. Russell Jinishian Gallery of Fairfield, Conn., has opened a summer location at 2159 State Route 129 in South Bristol, on Rutherford Island, just up the hill from the swing bridge. The gallery is open by appointment through Labor Day. Call 644-1102. Visitors can view […]
Published
August 22, 2010

Arts Planner

This week George Marshall Store Gallery in York opens an exhibition Saturday of new work by Maine painter Lincoln Perry. Perry, who when not living in Maine also spends time in Virginia and Florida, is a seeker of the Maine landscape. In his latest body of work, Perry reconsiders familiar places — Fisherman’s Walk, Wiggly’s […]

Published
August 22, 2010

Lunch bucket brigade

Sharon Lockhart embedded herself at BIW, observing and documenting on paper and film the workaday habits and break-time rituals of employees there.
Published
August 22, 2010

Bob Keyes: Struck down, but far from out

PORTLAND – On the evening of Jan. 24, noted flute player Phil James and his wife, Lara Schneider, departed the Grand Canyon on a small, rural highway. They were wrapping up a brief winter vacation, a final getaway with just the two of them before the birth of their son. Schneider was seven months pregnant […]
Published
August 22, 2010

The genius of Whalley: Drawn in and captured by life’s little details

Seeing John Whalley’s paintings for the first time can be an astonishing experience. They have all of the details of photographs and yet none of the distortions of the photographic process: no lens flares, no burned-out or underexposed areas, no overarching circular bend caused by a round lens. Whalley’s “At Hand” is an oil on […]
Published
August 22, 2010

In the Arts: There is much emotion in the tiny realm of the small

This article is largely about small, beautiful works. I didn’t plan it that way; it just happened. I begin with “Assembled Thoughts” at Whitney Art Works. Billed as “a showcase of two witty, bizarre and entirely self-sufficient/contained/referential worlds,” it introduces work by Ethan Hayes-Chute and Yeshe Parks. In the case of Hayes-Chute, we are drawn […]
Published
August 22, 2010

Movie Review: Thompson saves the day again in ‘Nanny Returns’

The movie “Nanny McPhee Returns” is a lot like Nanny herself. It’s not always pretty to look at, but deep down it’s charming, funny and warm. Emma Thompson reprises her role as the Mary Poppins-on-speed nanny who makes magic with the tap of her walking stick. She only appears at households in total disarray. Such […]

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