Boston tends to have an inferiority complex when it comes to art. One of the world’s great college towns, it’s a great place to learn to be an artist, but not always a great place to pursue a career in art, existing as it does in the long shadow of New York City, one of […]
When the Tesluk family moved into a New Canaan, Connecticut, landmark, they became part of the town’s history, even as they started creating their own.
If the crèche at the Abbey of Regina Laudis strikes you as a little out of place, there’s a good reason. The austere Yankee barn that houses it is a world away from its previous home. Handcrafted by artisans in Naples, the intricate nativity scene was presented as a coronation gift to Victor Amadeus II, […]
Like Pat Steir (Just Looking, Feb. 18, 2010), the artist whose show preceded hers at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Lynda Benglis is a creature of the Post-Minimal 1970s. She is probably best known (or notorious) for the full-page ad she took out in a 1974 issue of Artforum in which she posed […]
Frank Stella, the pioneering Minimalist who is among the greatest contemporary American artists, is also one of the most famous artists that Massachusetts has ever produced though he has never really been identified with Massachusetts. Born in Malden in 1936, Stella graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover in 1954, left New England to attend college, […]
Jud’s New England Journal For September 2010 Welcome to the September 2010 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. Running for Town Office The late Vrest Orton, founder of the Vermont Country Store, had two words of […]
The Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport, Maine, has been having a 1970s summer. The exhibition that just closed, The ’70s: Art & Place at Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine, featured artists active in the area in the 1970s. Now, (through September 19) the Tides Institute is featuring a solo exhibition by Richard Van Buren, […]
In 2010, we asked Massachusetts native and Connecticut resident Carroll Spinney what it was like to be the voice of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since Sesame Street‘s debut in 1969.
Arthur Tauck Sr. started the whole leaf-peeping trade in 1925, when he first took paying passengers to see the beautiful colors of autumn. Eighty-five years later, Yankee follows Tauck’s “Classic New England” tour–and discovers some surprises along the way.
How New England Can Save the World? wonders the author in Part IV in a series.
Here’s a life list of 75 essential things for anyone who loves New England, native and visitor alike. How many have you done?
The old fire barn that houses the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in the village of Rockport, Maine, is filled top to bottom with three wonderfully satisfying solo exhibitions between now and September 25. CMCA was on the financial ropes last year and appeared on the verge of collapse, but with new director Suzette McAvoy […]
