Art

An Eisner Nomination For A New Hampshire Comic Artist

Brady Carlson — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:44:44 +0000

For filmmakers there’s the Oscars, for children’s authors there’s the Newbury Award, and in the world of comics and comic art, there’s the Eisner Awards, named after legendary artist and author Will Eisner.

This year one of the Eisner nominees for Best Publication for Early Readers up to age 7 is Sara Richard, who lives and works here in New Hampshire. She’s nominated for her book “Kitty and Dino.”

Word Of Mouth 05.04.2013

Rebecca Lavoie — Fri, 03 May 2013 15:47:19 +0000

In this special edition of Word of Mouth: are we catching up with technology? This week we'll explore the very human way we interact with technology; resistance is futile.

I Saw The Sign: The Old-Fashioned Art Of Sign-Painting

Taylor Quimby — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:15:42 +0000

Hand-painted signs once dotted the landscape. They brought color, style, and distinction to stores and products, and were the nation’s first form of advertising…and today, with computer graphics and large-scale printing available for cheap, they are pretty much going the way of the horse and buggy… But a number of hand-painting holdouts are sticking with brushes – and are the subject of Sign Painters, a new documentary film about the craft directed by Sam Macon and Faythe Levine.

Arts On Trial

Virginia Prescott — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:00:00 +0000

Throughout history, pieces of art – and their creators, have been hauled into the courtroom. They stood accused of obscenity, extramarital dalliances, societal intermingling, and blasphemy – among other equally verbose charges. Government agencies championed their prosecution as a righteous public service – but maybe they just needed to gain a little sense of humor. Regardless, these pieces of art fought the law. Here to discuss whether the law won is Clay Wirestone, arts editor for the Concord Monitor and author of an article in an upcoming issue of Mental Floss called, “Arts on trial.”

How To Make Furniture Sexy (And Other Lessons From An Artist)

Emily Corwin — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:00:00 +0000

The New Hampshire Furniture Masters are featuring the work of three female furniture makers through April 9, in Concord. This story features one of the artists, at her workshop in Manchester.

"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry"

Virginia Prescott — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:13:35 +0000

Ai Weiwei is China’s best known artist and the sharpest thorn in the side of its government. He’s a humorous and clever digital dissident, whose installations, viral videos, and tweets mock Chinese censors, and have made him an international symbol for freedom.

After years of attempting to cozy up to him with bribes and favors, the Chinese government turned on Ai Weiwei, charging him with tax evasion and bulldozing his freshly built studio in Shanghai. Then, on April 3, 2011, he disappeared.

Museum Of The White Mountains Opens

Sean Hurley — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:00:00 +0000

The Museum of the White Mountains had its Grand Opening this past weekend in Plymouth. Correspondent Sean Hurley spoke with Director Catherine Amidon and sends us this story.

Listening For The Elusive Sound Of Ice Chimes

Amanda Loder — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:15:00 +0000

This year, the Dartmouth College campus has become temporary home for a mixed-media menagerie called Ice Chimes. And the 20-foot tall pagoda-like structure outside the Life Sciences building gets a lot of curious stares from students.

Ice Chimes is supposed to be interactive. But it isn’t exactly intuitive.

Historic Doodles And The Great Minds Who Drew Them

Bill Barry — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:35:43 +0000

Our conversation with Sunni Brown sparked an interest in history's doodles; here are some great minds that weren't afraid to scribble a shape or two on their stationary.

Word of Mouth 12.08.2012

Virginia Prescott — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Word of Mouth's weekly program. This week's show features an art blog that uses Google Earth images to show the battlefields of drones, a radio show produced in an an insane asylum, Ty Burr's "Gods Like Us," and history's badass-iest nuns. Plus, webcast funerals!

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Tintype Photography: An Exhibition

Virginia Prescott — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:12:15 +0000

Photographer Keliy Anderson-Staley works with tintype photography, a medium that came out ten years after the daguerreotype. Just like the photographers of the 1850’s, she uses similar chemical recipes, period brass lenses, and wooden view cameras.

Emergence of the Modern Infographic

Virginia Prescott — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:06:47 +0000

From apps for avoiding heavy traffic to the latest polling data in the presidential race -- infographics are visual shorthand for data in the post-newspaper slash social media slash sound byte age. Several sources credit the digital age for giving birth to infographics and others cite the publication of USA Today’s “Snapshots” beginning in 1982. Susan Schulten begs to differ.

Fair is Big Business For NH Craftsmen

Sheryl Rich-Kern — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:58:16 +0000

The annual League of New Hampshire Crafts Fair at Mt. Sunapee is now in its 79th year.

The show opened this past Saturday, and is the oldest, longest-running crafts fair in the country.

About 200 exhibitors are showcasing their wares.

And most of them spent close to a year leading up to what they call, not just a fair, but the Fair.

Artists are nailing down floors, draping curtains and hanging up lights to get their booths ready for the annual New Hampshire Crafts Fair.

Inspired Lives: David Carroll

Mary Kuechenmeister and David Carroll — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:00:00 +0000

Naturalist-artist David M. Carroll is the author of three acclaimed natural histories. Swampwalker's Journal, for which he received the John Burroughs medal for distinguished nature writing, The Year of the Turtle, and Trout Reflections. David graduated from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, and received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of New Hampshire and an Honorary Masters in Environmental Science from New England College. In 2006 he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

The Dø

Taylor Quimby and Virginia Prescott — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:18:10 +0000

The online release of their first four songs had built “The Dø” an instant fan base – and with almost no experience playing live shows as a band, Dan and Olivia suddenly found themselves in front of packed audiences at a series of sold-out Parisian concerts.