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WHAT HISTORY ASKS OF US
By Madeleine Lord
In a nod to the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Focus on the Past exhibition at the Attleboro Arts Museum will include eight artifacts from […]
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FITCHBURG CAPTURED
By Brian Goslow
When photographer Ricardo Barros arrived in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in June 2023 after living in the Princeton, New Jersey area for 43 years, one of the first things that he noticed […]
Reviews
INSIDE AMERICAN VENGEANCE
By Heather Stivison
“While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his (Ahab’s) head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever threw shifting gleams and shadows […]
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THE HIGGINS LEGACY REFORGED
By Beth Neville
King Richard the Lionheart! King Arthur! Shogun Toranaga! Genghis Khan! Sunjata Keita from Mali! Joan of Arc! All fighting battles, conquering tribes, marching to Crusades! They all wore armor to […]
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SEEING MUSIC
By Madeleine Lord
A welcome response to the winter blues, Blue Door Gallery owner and curator Janice Santini is presenting “Euphony,” an exhibition of collage art by Connecticut artist R. Douglass Rice that […]
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IRREPLACEABLE LOSSES
By Marta Pauer-Tursi
The current exhibition at Burlington City Arts (BCA) addresses that universal human emotion — grieving, after experiencing loss of the irreplaceable love that centered one’s life. The day I viewed […]
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SEEING VOICES HEARING GRIEF
By Elizabeth Michelman
“Unspoken Resilience,” a multi-disciplinary exhibition on view at the University of New England (UNE) Gallery in Portland through February 7, assembles works of the Deaf community and its friends in […]
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CORNERED: CAROL LAKE
By Linda Sutherland
Canterbury, New Hampshire sculptor Carol Lake has just returned from the annual Animal Art Fair in Paris, a juried international exhibition of animal artists in all mediums, where she was […]
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Welcome
By Brian Goslow
2026, anyone? At the start of October, Elizabeth Michelman proposed reviewing the “Unspoken Resilience: Healing from the Lewiston Shooting Two Years In: Work by Artists of the Maine & National […]
Artscope Online, Theatre
NEW THEATRICAL DELIGHTS ABOUND IN SPEAKEASY STAGE’S MUSICAL PRODUCTION OF LIZARD BOY
By James Foritano
The SpeakEasy Stage Company’s presentation of Justin Huertas’ musical“Lizard Boy” at the Roberts Studio Theatre in the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts through November 22, […]
Artscope Online, Visual Arts
LOOKING BACK TO GO AHEAD
By Madeleine Lord
In her solo exhibition, “Holding Thoughts,” currently at ArtsWorcester, Virginia Mahoney’s works are composed of sliced paintings covered with handwritten heart leaking words woven into floating vessels. Thousands of hand […]
Artscope Online, Theatre
ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE PROJECT BRINGS A YOUTHFUL ENERGY TO MACBETH AT MOSESIAN CENTER
By James Foritano
Ask anyone, and they’ll assert that this writer is usually even handed, even to a fault, in his praise and blame of a stage production’s every virtue, every fault. But […]