Currently and coincidently, both the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the Portland Museum of Art in Maine are opening major photography exhibitions this weekend. The Currier is filling two large galleries with a show of 125 modernist photographs from its own collection. The Portland Museum of Art is showing a selection […]
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Yankee Magazine Cover | January 1964
“Wayland Station, Massachusetts,” by F. Wenderoth Saunders.
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Yankee Magazine Cover | January 1983
“Uncle Van,” an oil painting by Rich Fiedler.
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January 1993 | “Winterset Farm,” by Jim Buckels.
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DeCordova’s Boston Biennial
Back in 1987, the then-DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, mounted New England Now: Contemporary Art from Six States, a truly authoritative regional survey of the sort that New England needs. The DeCordova became the New England regional hub for new art under curator Rachel Rosenfield Lafo, but, now renamed DeCordova […]
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Loving New England Jigsaw Puzzles
With all of today’s endless technological distractions, it’s easy to overlook some of life’s simpler, wireless pleasures. Things like a good book, a fierce game of Scrabble, and a colorful jigsaw puzzle all have a spot on my list for wonderful ways to spend a lazy Sunday. My fellow jigsaw-puzzle-lovers might know that Yankee has […]
Looking for a museum that appeals to kids and adults alike? Perhaps you long to tour the unusual? These museums offer entertainment in the form of vintage toys, an 8-foot tall Bigfoot, classic Pac Man, and all kinds of creepy crawlies. We think they bring new meaning to the term “edu-tainment,” and make great school […]
When John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury moves from the Portland Museum of Art to the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, for its January 28 to March 18 run, the landmark Marin show will be complemented by Land, Sea, and Sky: Contemporary Art in Maine, an exhibition of recent […]
I’ve always found the production cycle of a magazine to be fairly odd. My last blog entry on YankeeMagazine.com was to be entitled, “Christmas in July,” but I got sidetracked and failed to complete it among all the other tasks on my trusty to-do list. So I figure I’ll offer a few thoughts about it […]
Earlier this year, I had my eyes opened to the current vogue for mechanical and digital interactive media in a show at Maine College of Art’s Institute of Contemporary Art called Fracturing the Burning Glass. Last week while visiting family in Providence I stopped by the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University where I […]
We Make the Best Hot Chocolate in the World Michael Klug, head chocolatier at L. A. Burdick in Walpole, New Hampshire, on making that perfect cup: The Right Stuff A great hot chocolate begins with good-quality ingredients. Klug opts for 2% milk over whole milk. “There’s already fat in the chocolate,” he explains. “And too-high […]