Visitors can get an up-close look at nature within the walls of the Newton Free Library by viewing the exhibit titled “Small Works” by Wellesley painter Michael William. The TAB recently spoke with William, who works as a part-time…
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ARTIST ROO WATERHOUSE HAS INVENTED THE “SHELF PORTRAIT”. SHARON DALE REPORTS ON HOW CAPTURING THE SIGNIFICANCE AND THE JOY OF TREASURED BOOKS HAS CHANGED ROO’S LIFE.
Inventing a new artistic genre is quite a feat, especially when it’s one that has mass appeal and a snappy title. Yet tucked away on the top floor of Northlight Studios in Hebden Bridge, Roo Waterhouse is largely oblivious to…
Laylah Ali Paintings and Drawings at Hallwalls
To be acephalous is to be without a head. This hefty word and definition may bring to mind snippets of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; a work of speculative fiction set in the titular eighteenth-century hamlet north of New…
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is selling her collection of Goldie paintings
Famed opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is selling paintings from her art collection slated to be worth millions. Famed Kiwi opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is selling her collection of paintings by the artist Charles Frederick Goldie. The…
A brush with charity: paintings by John Martin Borg on sale
An exhibition of some 50 paintings, inspired by Caritas Malta’s work with people who are in dire physical and mental need, is being held at the Curia this weekend. Entrance to the exhibition at the Archbishop’s Curia in Floriana will…
Hunt Library presents paintings by Patricia Decker
The Hunt Library’s next exhibit, featuring works by Patricia Decker, opens Nov. 3. In November, the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village will present the exhibit “Seeing Through, by Lime Rock photographer Patricia Decker. The exhibit will be…
Arlington artist exhibits watercolor paintings at Bistro Duet
Lorraine Karcz may have retired from her business producing graphic design work and illustrations for the food industry, but she hasn’t retired from painting. She paints watercolors in her Arlington apartment, drawing inspiration from objects around her. Karcz began…
Vermeer’s Paintings Are Strikingly Realistic. Did He Trace Them?
Museum of Fine Art, Vienna Johannes Vermeer left behind few remnants of his life and even fewer of his creative process. No one knows for certain how the 17th-century Dutch artist made his paintings, what he thought about the world around…
Entangled shows contemporary Canadian painting is alive and well
Entangled is a big, energetic, and engaging exhibition. It trots us past an abundance of contemporary works, from John Heward’s hanging pieces of paint-stained fabric to Jessica Groome’s table-top paper “flags”, and from Neil Campbell’s eye-popping, black-on-white mural to…
Bill Scott brings colorful and thought-provoking paintings to the Art Gallery
Vibrant and vivid paintings line the Art Gallery walls in the newest exhibit, The Landscape in a Still Life, featuring works from artist Bill Scott. Scott’s paintings will be displayed in the gallery until Oct. 29. The 22 paintings, pastels,…