Castle Craig Players kicks off new season, celebrates 30-year anniversary- MERIDEN Saturday marked the opening night for the Castle Craig Players’ 30th anniversary season. The local theater troupe debuted its show “The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On,” a 1960s/70s-era musical about a group of girls coming together to say.
Castle Craig Players kicks off new season, celebrates 30-year anniversary- MERIDEN Saturday marked the opening night for the Castle Craig Players’ 30th anniversary season. The local theater troupe debuted its show “The Marvelous Wonderettes: Dream On,” a 1960s/70s-era musical about a group of girls coming together to say.
This week, associate editor Zack Hatfield revisits “James Bishop: Remembering to See,” Carter Ratcliff’s 1988 feature on the unclassifiable painter, who died in February at age ninety-three. Art historian Molly Warnock reflects on Bishop’s legacy in the current issue.
John Ashbery once described the art of James Bishop as “half architecture, half air.” In other words, a ruin. In his 1988 essay on the elusive painter, who was born in America but resided in France, the poet-critic Carter Ratcliff revels in the “ruined image” of Bishop’s abstraction, locating in his idiosyncratic treatment of surface, structure, and luminosity a bracing alternative to modernity’s ideas of artistic progress, its tenuously promised futures. “Bishop carries on a demolition whose chief residue is the subtlety that empties his art, opening it to the questions memory supplies,” Ratcliff writes. It’s difficult to imagine Bishop as a wrecking ball. A specialist in the barely perceptib