The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center will be increasing the green space between its front lawn and existing green space at the Marlboro College Graduate Center by reconfiguring the museum's parking lot. BMAC director Danny Lichtenfeld presented the plan to the Selectboard on Sept. 7 as part of the permitting process. “It will be a nice addition to downtown,” Lichtenfeld said. The current parking lot, he said, is three cars deep. The project will take the “back half” of the...
For the month of January, the Crowell Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West St., presents a free exhibit, “On the Way By Painting En Passant” by C. Peter Erickson. In his artist statement, Erickson says he applies the original French chess definition of “passing through” to his art, “establishing the world's impermanence, its placement neither here nor there, but somewhere along the way.” “For many years I was most interested in painting with oil on canvas, eventually trending toward...
These are your standards for online comments. I wish that the open letter published today was held to the same standard: “Editor's note: Our terms of service require you to use your real names. We will remove anonymous or pseudonymous comments that come to our attention. We rely on our readers' personal integrity to stand behind what they say; please do not write anything to someone that you wouldn't say to his or her face without your needing to wear...
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