Homecoming: Max Decker Returns to His First Love 7 years ago Karla Araujo Artist Profiles, Features 1 ••• Following a 10-year stint as a musician in New York City, Island native Max Decker has come back to his roots — painting and Vineyard life. ...
Searching for Katharine Cornell 7 years ago Kate Feiffer Features 1 ••• Once among the world’s most famous stage actresses, on the Vineyard she was simply an Islander. I recently found myself fixating on Katha...
Martha’s Vineyard — the comic book 7 years ago Geoff Currier Artists, Features 0 ••• 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...
The Re:Make Project at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum: June 17 – August 13 8 years ago Arts & Ideas Artists, Features, Galleries and Venues, Quick Reads 0 ••• Photo, above, A work in progress: Stina's design, inspired by a jacket in the museum collection. Photos courtesy MV Museum The coll...
Rock on the Rock on the Rocks 8 years ago Geoff Currier Features, Music 4 ••• It was a pleasant evening last July, and the Grange Hall in West Tisbury was filling up with family and friends of high school and middle sc...
Les Woodcock, Sports Illustrated, and the Art of Sportswriting 8 years ago Frank Bergon Features, Writing and Poetry 3 ••• I have in my hands the first issue of Sports Illustrated, launched 62 years ago on August 16, 1954. The cover photo is titled “Night Basebal...
Doug Kent's Quantum Leap: Until recently, the evolution of the artist's work has been one slow-moving train 8 years ago Niki Patton Artist Profiles, Artists, Features, Painting 1 ••• Doug Kent, in his West Tisbury Gallery, with one of his Mind Series paintings. Photograph by Lynn Christoffers. Quantum leap: In physic...
Living with Vietnam: Dick Iacovello Creates Art from Injury 8 years ago Jack Shea Artist Profiles, Artists, Quick Reads 2 ••• 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...
Nicholas Negroponte: Muse to the Future 8 years ago Nathaniel Horwitz Features, Interview 3 ••• Nicholas Negroponte has been a herald of the digital era, and authored the best-selling “Being Digital” (1995), about the growth and future ...
Art as Activism: Basia Jaworska Paints Modern-Day Heroes 8 years ago Kate Feiffer Artist Profiles, Artists, Quick Reads 1 ••• There’s nothing subtle about the work of artist Basia Jaworska. She creates poster-size paintings — larger-than-life portraits in vibrant co...