On the Isle
Aileen Jacobson's weekly look at the happenings in fine arts across Long Island
Academic conferences can be a snore for anyone who isn't
called professor. (Mar 30, 2008)
Dan Brown was unhappy with the way many local art
associations and schools assemble group shows. "They typically limit each artist to one piece," he says. (Mar 23, 2008)
Carol Rosenberg came home from her publishing job one day
and told her son, Justin, then 21, "I need a million-dollar idea. I need a title that will work with any subject for teens." She wanted to develop an advice series for young people that would work as well as the megapopular "Chicken Soup for the Soul" franchise that her company, Health Communications Inc., or HCI, already publishes. (Mar 16, 2008)
Edward Albee and Jack Lenor Larsen have known each other
since their days as young up-and-comers in Greenwich Village in the 1950s. (Mar 9, 2008)
It began with a painting of a spiraled shell. (Feb 24, 2008)
Hawks, swans, geese, plovers: Around her home in
Sagaponack, Roberta Olson sees many kinds of birds nesting or flying by. But she worries about some of them. A few species are becoming sparser, others that should be wintering farther south are now finding Long Island warm enough. (Feb 17, 2008)
Long Island, it turns out, has more classical composers
than most fans of serious music might imagine. (Feb 10, 2008)
In a bustling art studio one recent morning, 18-year-old Michelle Noriega carefully sketches a bicycle propped near her easel, creating a drawing she hopes will help her get into Brooklyn's prestigious Pratt Institute. (Feb 4, 2008)
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