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By ALEX HANSON

The barn at Toni Prince’s small riding school in Union Village is tidy and snug, just four stalls, two on either side of a central aisle.With Prince and six students all grooming and tacking up the school’s four lesson horses on a recent afternoon, it...

By ALEX HANSON

“My Winter World,” acrylic and watercolor paintings by artist Kate Reeves, of Barnard, opens Wednesday at Tunbridge Public Library. A reception is planned for 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17. Reeves will give a brief talk about her work at 3 p.m. Through...

By ALEX HANSON

Since the 19th-century caricaturists, who embroidered their illustrations with text, artists have combined words and images to comment on society.The most prominent assemblages of words and imagery in our own era are comics, an art form that continues...

By ALEX HANSON

Over the past 17 years, the one constant of the Aidron Duckworth Art Museum, aside from the work of its namesake artist, has been Grace Harde.She and a handful of others founded the museum in 2002, and she ran it for many years before the trustees...

By ALEX HANSON

Two paths crossed at AVA Gallery and Art Center last winter.Heidi Reynolds, who was mourning her partner Bob Raiselis, decided to help hang AVA’s annual Upper Valley high school exhibition. Raiselis had died unexpectedly on Dec. 30. Helping out at AVA...

By ALEX HANSON

With its ground-floor galleries, AVA Gallery and Art Center regularly has a challenge on its hands to install shows of recent work that play well together.The shows opening on Friday feature a quartet of Upper Valley artists who fill the frames of...

By ALEX HANSON

At the corner of Main Street and Shaker Hill Road in Enfield Village sits an apartment building, and next to the building is a parking lot for the residents. Between the lot’s asphalt and the sidewalk is a narrow grass border.For years, that little...

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 ALEX HANSON

Hilde Ojibway’s tenure as interim executive director of AVA Gallery and Art Center ended on Friday. When she signed on to lead the Lebanon nonprofit art center, it was with the aim of having a new director in place by Sept. 1. The process has taken...

By ALEX HANSON

The final installment of the annual Sculpture Fest arrives on Saturday afternoon with a reception from 4 to 6:30 at the King Farm in Woodstock. The farm, just off Route 4 in West Woodstock, is a short walk from the Prosper Road home of Charlet and...

By ALEX HANSON

In the realm of American narrative entertainment, only one genre is currently experiencing a Golden Age. Television critics can’t stop gushing about how great everything is, with major acting, writing and directing talents climbing over each other to...

By ALEX HANSON

Back in 2008, the Hood Museum of Art held a retrospective show of work by Dartmouth College studio art professor Ben Frank Moss. Moss, who was then a couple of years away from retirement (he taught at Dartmouth from 1988 to 2010), painted vast...

By ALEX HANSON

When Opera North approached Helena Binder in January about directing Verdi’s Macbeth, she did what she usually does with a work she hasn’t directed before: research.She reread the Shakespearean tragedy on which the opera is based, and she sat down and...

By ALEX HANSON

Jewelry maker and Scavenger Gallery owner Stacy Hopkins has a busy weekend planned.On Friday evening, she’s holding a closing reception for “Skywriting,” a show of recent work by Norwich artist Luciana Frigerio. The reception, part of the monthly...

By ALEX HANSON

This weekend marks the beginning of the end of a long-running art project: The finel exhibition of Aidron Duckworth’s work opens with a reception from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Aidron Duckworth Art Museum in Meriden.As already documented in this...

By ALEX HANSON

The subtitle of an exhibition opening this weekend at the Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park in Cornish says it all: “Augusta Homer Saint-Gaudens: Stepping Out of the Shadows.”As the wife of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, now widely recognized as the...

By ALEX HANSON

AVA Gallery and Art Center in Lebanon opens its Summer Juried Exhibition with a reception from 5 to 7 Friday evening. The juror, Alan Chong, director of the Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, selected 89 works by 70 artists, from the 189 pieces...

By ALEX HANSON

In the interest of celebrating the nation’s 243rd birthday, we could do worse than look at art that reflects the nation in one way or another.The Upper Valley is unusual in that its two national parks feature substantial collections of American art....

By ALEX HANSON

More than other seasons, summer consists of a series of milestones. Or maybe it’s a checklist.And unlike other seasons, summer needs those markers. Spring and fall are transitional, and winter features the turn of the year.Summer is static; once the...

By ALEX HANSON

Every year, the Woodstock-based Sculpture Fest seems to expand, either in space or in time.What was once a late-summer and fall exhibition of sculpture at the Prosper Road farm of Charlet and Peter Davenport expanded a few years ago to the nearby King...