Nature’s Core Photography Exhibition Souterrain Gallery, West Cornwall CT By Kathleen Hulser Béla Selendy is perplexed and riveted by the processes which vitalize all life and yet remain mysterious and inchoate. In Nature’s Core, light is always a portal to the unknown. The artist refers to “involuntary perception,” a notion…

A frolicsome display of food-themed art opened at the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, CT on October 15. Curated by Garth Kobal, the show teases our taste buds with an array of delectable work. These artists know that food is fun, and leave worship at the Altar of…

In artist Emily Waters “Persistence/Insistence” exhibition at the Souterrain Gallery in West Cornwall, Connecticut, Grecian women and Egyptian-style Birdmen face off: sometimes connecting, sometimes stalled in a baffling war of the wills. The female figures clad in chitons of the Hellenic world, foreground a woman’s gifts and aura. …

We love to map our lives on geometry. Work is a grid of many discrete boxes. Play is the tangent refreshing the unpredictable impulse. Romance is a Venn diagram where overlap turbocharges the heart. Friendship plots to X and Y where the point of intersection undulates in the great sine curve of closeness. Aging is an arc bending towards infinity. Fibonacci numbers shape our thoughts into graceful proportions, an echo chamber of golden ratios. The fractals of enthusiasm bump against the paisley of tenderness. Euclid and Pythagoras made the body Earth’s measure, and Nature harmonizes our internal geometry.

Don Gummer at Five Points Art Center Sculpture loves the sky, taking cloud, rays, forest and field as volumes to shape. Don Gummer’s sculpture spread around the generous acreage of the Five Points Art Center in Torrington, Connecticut features porous structures that frame and reframe the environment, letting metal members…

After a slam bang ride on the #1 train, I bounded into the Museum of Modern Art to catch some highlights from the 1970s and 1980s. Astounded at how many artists I knew from that period who have pried their way into these exclusive collections. Once upon a time they…

Main Street, Torrington has been waking up, and this sleeping beauty has many charms. Just across from the Naugatuck River, John Noelke opened his bookstore and gallery last fall. Located in the former Howard’s Shoe Store, Howard’s Bookstore honors the history of the spot. You’ll find books nestled in shoes…

Attempted Privacy. Jan 25, 2022 Inside your head is outside, Spongy brain absorbing. Data Central gives it a squeeze, a pinch and a tickle Everyone owes everything always. Every word scratches a digital trail Server farms take but don’t give Tapping thumbs chatter A perpetual hail of data Harvested, plucked, pounded and monetized. They are hungry and ever listening Siri, Bixby, Jarvis and Alexa await your command

The modern Romeo and Juliet musical West Side Story has more angles than a Swarovski crystal: read it as a story of urban removal, groove to stylized violence, watch as a gritty dance fest, listen to amazing synergy between Latin jazz and classical beats, dream in the richly colored love…