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Algerian Night Club by Robert Andrew Parker Courtesy of Washington Art Association
It is a well-trodden anecdote that Vincent van Gogh, the most popular and cherished artist of the modern age, couldn’t sell his work. Proportionally, Robert Andrew Parker may face a similar problem, but only because there is so much of his work to sell.
Installation of the Vermeer exhibition at The Rijksmuseum. Photo courtesy of Rijksmuseum/Kelly Schenk
‘Paris Syndrome” was first coined by a Japanese psychologist in the 1980s to label the particular ennui — or rather, kanashimi — that tourists from The Land of the Rising Sun suffered upon discovering that Paris was not a romantic fantasia but a real-life metropolis spoiled by garbage, pickpockets and noisy crowds.
Courtesy Penguin Random House
It’s few shows that would open with the murder of a beloved pet — or hitch their narrative to solving the mystery of who skewered the neighborhood pooch with a garden fork like an appetizer — but that's what kicks off “The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time,” opening at The Warner Theatre in Torrington, Conn., on Saturday, April 29.
Photo courtesy Penguin Random House
New York journalist Alex Prud’homme knows a thing or two about food. His great aunt, culinary icon Julia Child, brought French cuisine to the American kitchen, and their co-authored book “My Life in France” helped inspire the film "Julie & Julia" by Nora Ephron.
The Berkshire Opera Festival will open its 2023 season with a spring performance, “To Paris With Love: Opera in the City of Light,” on Sunday, April 16, at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, Mass.
Photo by Jim Henkens
My name is Emma and I'm the pastry chef at Troutbeck in Amenia, N.Y. In 2013, I went to culinary school in Cambridge, Mass., and turned my passion into a career. Since then, I have worked at The Fearrington House Inn, a Relais & Châteaux property in Pittsboro, N.C., BakeHouse and Carmella’s Kitchen in Charleston, S.C., and The Colony Hotel
It’s a premise that could easily be mistaken for sci-fi — on a family-run Rhode Island flower farm, a young man (Kyle Allen, “West Side Story”) announces one morning to his salt-of-the-earth parents (Kevin Bacon and Carrie Preston) that he’s been selected by a technologically-advanced, privately-funded expedition to Mars.
Courtesy of spencertown Academy Arts Center
In 2013 when painter and sculptor Ellsworth Kelly received the National Medal of Arts from Barack Obama, the former U.S. president described him as “A careful observer of form, color and the natural world, Mr.
Photo by Luke Haughwout
The Nutmeg Ballet Conservatory held its annual spring performances last weekend, just next door to their studio at the neighboring Warner Theatre in Torrington, Conn.
Susan Rand has taken to the water. In a new show, “Sink or Swim,” at Standard Space in Sharon, Conn., that will open to the public on April 1, Rand explores a radical departure from her previous country scenics.
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