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William Morgan: $3,700 post-card art for the departed

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Comments and photograph by WILLIAM MORGAN New England has always been known for its rich tradition of gravestone carvings -- the 18th-Century death's head and hour glass is one of the iconic sculpted visions of American art, not to......

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 Tags  Peterborough Marble & Granite Works   Portland Head Light  

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Empire falls into pixileration

6:47 PM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

inline;"> From Colin Williams's "Empire" video, which can be seen at Sol Koffler gallery, at 169 Weybosset St., in downtown Providence. This is part of the 5 Traverse/Sol Koffler galleries' quirky show "Pixilerations:The Great Disruption, '' whose cohering element is......

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 Tags  5 Traverse Gallery   Colin Williams   pixilerations   Sol Koffler  

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Dragon-boat drama; Up in the Air; famished dairy farmers

4:18 PM Thu, Sep 24, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

inline;"> One of the most entertaining events in the region every year is the dragon-boat races, organized by Taiwan in Pawtucket. This year's races start at 10 a.m. in the Seekonk River, just below the Pawtucket Falls at Festival......

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 Tags  dragon boats   keeplocalfarms.org   Pawtucket   Quechee   Up in the Air   Vt.   Walter Kirn  

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Hurry up and get thin; civic Souter

5:59 PM Wed, Sep 16, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

inline;"> "Hurry,'' an oil by California artist Ken Auster. He'll be running a workshop at the South Shore Art Center Oct. 7-11 (781-383-2787) ssac.org. People working in the middle of Northeast cities tend to be thinner than most Americans because......

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 Tags  David Souter   Ken Auster   South Shore Art Center  

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New Haven as two cities?

9:41 AM Tue, Sep 15, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

The two cities of New Haven? See this Yale Daily News article in the wake of the student murder. http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/15/safety-new-haven-tale-two-cities/......

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 Tags  murder   New Haven   Yale Daily News  

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William Morgan: The Lenox Tub Parade

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photo and Commentary by WILLIAM MORGAN Lenox, Mass., opens its fall season with the Annual Lenox Tub Parade, which this year came last Saturday. Like an inland Newport, Lenox seems more oriented to New York than New England.......

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 Tags  Edith Wharton   Lenox Tub Parade  

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Exuberant anonymity in Bridgeport

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

One of the examples of anonymous art in Frank Warren's "PostSecret'' show at the Housatonic Museum of Art, in Bridgeport. (For infomation, call (203) 332-5052 or email RZella@hccc.comment.edu) Good old industrial Bridgeport has a remarkably fine museum, including works......

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 Tags  Frank Warren   Housatonic Museum of Art   PostSecret  

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Warm water, cool air, end of summer

6:24 PM Tue, Sep 08, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Photo by CHARLES PINNING A swimmer at Westport, Mass., Town Beach last week -- the time of maximum salt-water warmth around here. The ocean water has been weirdly warm this summer, even if the air temperatures have often not......

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 Tags  Charles Pinning   Westport Town Beach  

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Green in the blue; tax-raiser hypocrsy, Olive Kittredge

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Photos and commentary by WILLIAM MORGAN Historic preservation seemed to come of age with the fight to save Pennsylvania Station in New York, back in the 1960s. Penn Station--one of America's greatest buildings ever--was lost to the forces of......

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 Tags  Central Falls   Elizabeth Strout   Marine Stewardship Council   Michael Rodrigues   Olive Kittredge  

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Connecticut wildlife

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By Robert Whitcomb    Email

"Study for Model With Butterfly Kite'' (2007), by Philip Pearlstein. Part of a show, "Philip Pearlstein: Recent Works,'' starting Sept. 25, at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, in lovely Lyme, Conn. (860) 434-0130. Mr Pearlstein is called......

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 Tags  Cape Wind   cod   lobster   Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts   Philip Pearlstein  

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