Artist inspired by loss: Area woman to exhibit three pieces in Italy

Michelle LaRiviere's artwork comes from personal experience. But the result is universal. "My work focuses on the human condition within the context of the fragmented family. It explores universal themes of loss, change and longing," she said.[...]

Photo-Sensitive Issues: Ansel Adams vs. Uncle Earl

by Vera H-C Chan Is it Ansel Adams or Uncle Earl? Back in July, a man named Rick Norsigian claimed the photographic find of the decade at a Fresno, Calif., garage sale, where he paid only $45 for long-lost glass negatives from renowned photographer Ansel Adams . The story made international headlines, but naysayers, including Adams' own kin, immediately accused Norsigian of being an Adams ...

Damascus Community Fair opens this weekend

Steven Moore, 11, of Damascus walks his 271-pound pig around the at the Damascus Community Fair livestock auction last year, hoping to fetch a good price for his hard work. Behind him are Gwen Brown and Lonnie Luther on the microphone.

Goings on About Town: Art

PageBreak -- MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú.” Through Oct. 31. | “Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein’s New York Photographs, 1950-1980.” The title of this knockout exhibition doesn . . .

GARDEN TREASURES: The Art of Country Life

By RON GRAY and MARY GRAY Special to the Journal-Courier Driving down a winding black top country road, somewhere in rural Pisgah, you come upon a stately old country home surrounded by blue spruce, maples, cottonwoods and elms.Behind these natural...