Attendees at this month’s First Friday can get a look at JAM, one of the newest organizations in this vibrant arts hub.Lodged in a prime downtown spot, between Tuckerbox and Piecemeal Pies, JAM, which stands for Junction Arts and Media, is hosting.
It’s always interesting to me when events happen in pairs. Earlier this month, two public art projects came to a successful conclusion on opposite sides of the Upper Valley.Newport’s Library Arts Center coordinated a remaking of the Newport Heritage.
During the second half of the Trump years, Andy Borowitz went on a comedy tour called “Make America Not Embarrassing Again.” If this sounds like a partisan enterprise, it kind of was. In his act, Borowitz, the celebrated name behind the satirical.
When I think of country music, the classic line from The Blues Brothers comes to mind: “We’ve got both kinds of music: country and western.” That quip is perfect in the way it captures the blinkered nature of an artform that seems incapable of.
A phrase I’ve often heard in reference to Lois Dodd’s work is “deceptively simple.” In fact, there it is, right at the beginning of the wall text for “Natural Order,” a retrospective of Dodd’s work at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vt..