A magazine for the love of art
PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS
Ryan Turner, top choral conductor and proud Texan, brings us his favorite male country singers in this episode of The Necessary Show
BY DAVID BRITTAN
It’s a little song about a girl in a boat, but there are many ways to interpret “The Fisher Maiden.” SUSAN YOUENS considers the lovely possibilities on The Necessary Show.
BY BRUCE MORGAN
In Concord, Massachusetts, the nature-loving scribe is “our Henry,” but it still surprises me to read about his youthful lack of promise.
BY DAVID BRITTAN
Her passion for music inspired CAROL KRAUSS to invent a whole new style of painting.
BY BRUCE MORGAN
The brief lament of a fan who has known the sport’s beauty and drama.
BY TAYLOR McNEIL
Collecting Japanese woodblock prints began as a hobby. Later it became a way of surviving.
BY STEVE NETSKY
Nothing captures old-world cityscapes like a good vintage travel-photo book. But my cell phone comes close.
BY DAVID BRITTAN
After a horrifying incident, Robert Frost’s “Birches” was my link to the real world. Only months later did I figure out what the hell he was talking about.
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Can music inspire you to excel at your work? The Nobel biologist BRUCE BEUTLER is convinced Bach has made him a better scientist.
BY HUME VANCE
Vladimir Nabokov, conjuror with words, had a magical gift for turning sights and sounds directly into language, with no filtering
BY CATHERINE O’NEILL GRACE
The Beatrix Potter-inspired paradise she dreamed about during chemotherapy couldn’t possibly exist in real life. Could it?
BY W. GEORGE SCARLETT
▸THE NATURE OF ART (AN OCCASIONAL SERIES)◂ Adults and young children have very different ideas of what art is all about.
BY REBECCA KAISER GIBSON
Robert Frost’s “Directive” guides you toward the ruins of a simpler, truer time
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Not into opera? Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro,” with its blend of sexual intrigue, class rebellion, and beautiful tunes, is a painless way in, according to MYRA DURKIN.
