Jon Imber spends part of the year in the city and part of the year in a small coastal village, and his art reflects this movement. Imber moves between abstraction and representation about as easily and seamlessly as any painter I know. Jon Imber burst on the Boston art scene in the late 1970s after […]
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Soups, Stews & Chowders
Best Chili Recipe from a World Champion Cook
New England’s first world champion chili maker, Jerry Buma, shares his favorite chili tips along with his best chili recipe.
Yankee
Megachurches in New England
Increasingly, New England’s churches aren’t defined by white steeples on village greens, but by evangelical megachurches changing the religious landscape.
When a New England artist attracts attention it usually starts locally and spreads regionally. If the artist is fortunate and talented enough, that attention sometimes leads to great visibility around the country. One of the New England artists getting a lot of attention at the moment is Kirsten Reynolds of Newmarket, New Hampshire. A Virginia […]
Santa Claus will come to town, the herald angels will sing, and the bells will jingle all the way. Those seasonal sounds have been struck in December at Symphony Hall dating back to 1974, when Arthur Fiedler led the Boston Pops. And it starts all over again this December 11 through 28, when the Boston […]
The history of art has long legitimized the practice of apprentices, assistants, and technicians helping to create the works of master artists, preparing and stretching canvases, applying preliminary coats of paint, working under the master’s direction. A great many prints are made by master printers from artists’ paintings and drawings. Large-scale sculpture is often fabricated […]
A photograph is essentially a split second in time captured on film or digitally, a record of what light revealed for the instant the shutter was open. Most of the time when you’re looking at a photograph, you are seeing something like 1/125th of a second captured from the eternal present as it passes before […]
History
When “Maudlin” Was “In”
Welcome to the November 2008 edition of “Jud’s New England Journal,” the rather curious monthly musings of Judson Hale, editor-in-chief of Yankee Magazine, published since 1935 in Dublin, New Hampshire. When “Maudlin” Was “In” Years ago in New England, people viewed death and dying quite differently …Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! […]
Dennis Pinette is among my favorite contemporary Maine painters. In fact, he is among my favorite all-time Maine painters. Born in Belfast, where he now lives and works, Pinette is a native Maine artist who looks beyond the picturesque to the more piquant, poignant, and pungent aspects of the Maine reality. Though he still primarily […]
Travel
Sol LeWitt at MASS MoCA
Could North Adams, Massachusetts, become an international pilgrimage site for modern-art lovers? It’s an idea being pushed by the minds behind Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective at MASS MoCA. Their optimism is easy to understand when you wander the halls of the custom-renovated, three-story industrial building (#7) that houses the exhibit. The imposing wall […]
Magazine
Best Bookstores in New England
There’s nothing quite like curling up with a good book, or picking one out at one of the best bookstores in New England. Susanne Strempek Shea, one of the Pioneer Valley’s best-loved writers, chose these beloved shops as the best bookstores in New England. She is the author of five novels and three memoirs, including Shelf […]
Find out how many lights there are in Forest Park and other holiday facts 600,000 holiday lights in the “Bright Nights at Forest Park” display, Springfield, MA 41 Pilgrims signing the Mayflower Compact while docked in Provincetown Harbor (Nov. 11, 1620) 0 native wild turkeys in MA in 1852Get Our FREE Yankee Best New England […]