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By ALEX HANSON

Newspapers occupy a strange place in our material culture. Even in their diminished state, millions of them land on doorsteps and on newsstands every day, a blizzard of paper and ink. By dark, they’re out of date, standing by to help light the...

By ALEX HANSON

Around 18 months ago, John Stomberg pitched the idea of curating a show at AVA Gallery and Art Center as part of AVA’s 50th anniversary year.It was not the kind of pitch AVA staff had to puzzle over. Stomberg, director of Dartmouth College’s Hood...

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Over the last few years, one of the pleasures of shopping at the Upper Valley Food Co-op has been seeing what Denver Ferguson is working on.With his long frame folded into the space behind the express checkout line, Ferguson is...

By ERIC SUTPHIN

HANOVER — The construction fencing along East Wheelock Street signals the beginning of the $88 million expansion and renovation of the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The iconic 1962 building is anticipated to reopen in 2025. In the interim, the Hop’s...

By ALEX HANSON

Two longtime Upper Valley performers are each bringing to the stage productions that are departures from their past work.First, on Friday evening, Alan Haehnel opens My Ode to Joy — a performance of spoken-word poetry mixed with music — at Parish...

By ERIC SUTPHIN

A phrase I’ve often heard in reference to Lois Dodd’s work is “deceptively simple.” In fact, there it is, right at the beginning of the wall text for “Natural Order,” a retrospective of Dodd’s work at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vt....

By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — For the past few years, Ben Finer and Bevan Dunbar have been mulling over what they would want an art gallery to look like.At first, they considered opening a gallery in a room of their Hartford Village apartment, which would...

By ALEX HANSON

It is a measure of how far comics have risen in stature that they are now being used to teach schoolchildren and adults alike how American democracy is supposed to function.Or is it a measure of how diminished our government is that cartooning has to...

By EmmaJean Holley

Musing on the slipperiness of identity, the poet Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote, “It never occurred to me before how many faces there are.” If each person has a good several faces, he reasoned, then there are many more faces in the world than there are...

By Nicola Smith

What’s a parish to do when it owns a number of extraordinary paintings by a famous 20th century American modernist, but almost no one knows they’re there?In the case of St. Francis of Assisi church in Windsor, which has the distinction of holding...