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Learning to appreciate abstract painting is an exercise in embracing silence and contemplation.
“To be honest, I wonder what a lo...
Artists
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I recently have been working on compiling a collection of comic poems. Most of them are soliloquies, and some monologues. I started thinking...
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In 2010, when portrait artist Elizabeth Whelan gave up her Island graphic design business and made the switch to oil painting, she left behi...
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M-C Lamarre has been on and off the Vineyard for years. This year she’s teamed up with Zita Cousens, owner of Cousen Rose Gallery in Oak Blu...
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Around the Bend, by Bob Avakian
A couple of years ago, I was interviewing a well-known Vineyard author, and I asked where he got the inspir...
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A truish look at life on the Vineyard back in the day.
In the late ’60s and early ’70s, a wave of 20somethings were drawn to Martha’s Vin...
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Photo, above, A work in progress: Stina's design, inspired by a jacket in the museum collection. Photos courtesy MV Museum
The coll...
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Doug Kent, in his West Tisbury Gallery, with one of his Mind Series paintings. Photograph by Lynn Christoffers.
Quantum leap:
In physic...
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Dan VanLandingham of West Tisbury was already an accomplished painter of Vineyard landscapes when he set out to advance his work with a M.F....
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Dick Iacovello ended his U.S. Army tour of duty in Vietnam in the fall of 1963.
He would spend the next 45 years exorcising the demons of h...