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Eric Forstmann, a Sharon artist represented by Eckert Fine Art in Kent, is posting videos of the process of creating a painting, from early sketches to finished canvas. Photo courtesy Eric Forstmann
In these days of self-distancing — when buyers can’t visit art galleries or studios — one Sharon, Conn., artist has found a unique way to bring attention to his work.
Author Simon Winchester, a Berkshire County resident, writes about the Mississippi and how it came to be America’s second largest river system, in a new book of work by photographer David Freese, called “Mississippi River: Headwaters and Heartland to Delta and Gulf,” due out in June.
“Little House on Town Street” by Ellen Moon is one of many works by Cornwall artists in a special Rose Algrant online art sale to raise money for the Cornwall Food and Fuel Fund.
One of the highlights of the Northwest Corner art season in Connecticut is the Rose Algrant Show, which has been held since 1959 and has been hosted in recent years at the Trinity Retreat Center in West Cornwall, Conn.
For the first time since it was created 91 years ago, Music Mountain has canceled
its summer season. The venue was founded by Jacques Gordon, second from
the right in photo, as a base for his world famous Gordon Quartet. Photo courtesy Music Mountain
The venerable Music Mountain chamber concert venue, on Music Mountain in Falls Village, Conn., has announced that it will cancel its summer schedule of classical music, jazz and more due to COVID-19 concerns.
This is the first time since Music Mountain was created 91 years ago that a season has been canceled.
A part from ducking out to fish when the weather allows I’m stuck at home (in Salisbury, Conn., in my case) like everybody else. Here are some of the exciting activities I do to stave off boredom.
If you’ve been following the news carefully, you will have noticed that — in tandem with essential updates on COVID-19 — many important news organizations have been reporting on the worldwide shortage of jigsaw puzzles.
Janice Hylton, at left in photo, and Bonnie Hundt of the Hylton Hundt Salon in Millerton, N.Y., shared tips on hair coloring and styling in a COVID world. Selfie photo by Bonnie Hundt and Janice Hylton
Desperate times lead to desperate women doing things in desperation to their hair.
For some women, such as those who have long hair and those who don’t color their hair because it’s gray, these times are not quite as desperate.
But a large percentage of our Tri-state region female (and perhaps male) population has:
“Two Sentence Horror Stories” is one of many programs on Netflix that multiple viewers can watch remotely together, using the app Netflix Party.
If you’ve missed watching movies and television at home with friends during the quarantine, try the new group viewing app Netflix Party.
Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., is now offering free access to some of the remarkable onstage conversations and arts events that have been offered at the beautiful Fisher Center on the school’s campus.
The term “uncanny valley” refers to a concept that’s simple enough: We like artificial beings to look like us — until they look too much like us; then we reject them, with revulsion.
The valley refers to the point in the graph when things go beyond being recognizably “robot” and become almost human, but not quite.
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