The United County of Morgan County held its 65th Anniversary and Second Annual Donor Leadership Gala at the Block on Thursday evening. Executive Director Chaundra Jacobs led the event with a video that covered their successes over the past 65 years. The United Way was started in Colorado and is now worldwide. There are over […]
DANVILLE — As construction on the 1972 addition at Danville High School continues, the school also is seeing new murals and signage throughout its hallowed hallways.
Deep in the mountains of Pennsylvania, a sixty-six year old woman named Jean welds scrap metal into massive sculptures. These works, which she dubs her “Manglements,” assert themselves into the foreground of the story with the same haunting force of Louise Bourgeois’s works—which makes sense given that Bourgeois is Jean’s greatest influence and the central source of reflection on the artistic impulse in Idra Novey’s superb new novel, Take What You Need. Amid the sawdust and machine oil, there’s a whiff of distrust. The novel deeply examines the intersection of art and trust, which is a central, if quiet, conversation often overlooked in the sensationalist depictions of art monsters in contemporary fiction. Novey relates an outsider artist’s life, and her step-daughter’s reckoning with that life, with resonance and connection to the broader world beyond the workshop.