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“Evening: Together We Can Do Anything,” a recent painting by Enrico Riley, is emblematic of the turn his work has taken toward more figurative subjects and toward the themes of violence and struggle. (Courtesy image)

Art Notes: Painter Takes a Long View of the U.S.

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterOctober 5, 2017

Jeff and Lori Bartlett, of White River Junction, Vt., started selling four varieties of their Tex's Best Salsa -- Habanero Hot, Jalepeno Mild and Medium, and Ghostly Hot -- at area stores in August 2017. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

An Upper Valley Man Called Tex Makes Some Serious Salsas

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterOctober 4, 2017

The Department of Political Science panel is part of Walter Beach Humphrey's "Hovey Murals," completed in the late 1930s in the faculty dining hall at Dartmouth College. ("The Hovey Murals at Dartmouth College: Culture and Contexts")

Interpreting Historical Monuments Calls for Nuance

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterOctober 3, 2017

Amelia Kahl, a curator of "Resonant Spaces," an exhibition of sound art installations around the Dartmouth College campus, works near a piece by Julianne Swartz entitled "Transfer (objects)," in Dartmouth's Sherman Art Library in Hanover, N.H., Wednesday, September 20, 2017. Three book-sized wooden objects, when held to a listener's ear, play recordings of Swartz reading passages of text aloud as she transcribes them. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Art Notes: Hood Museum Installs First Show Devoted to Sound Art

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 21, 2017

Mike Heaney, a Vietnam War veteran, stands in his office on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, at his house in Hartland, Vt. Injured during the war in an ambush, Heaney was interviewed for a Ken Burns documentary years later. (Valley News - Charles Hatcher) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Looking Back at Vietnam

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 15, 2017

"You might think I'm painting trees or houses," said artist Charlie Shurcliff, of Cornish, N.H., Friday, September 1, 2017. "The real subject is light." Shurcliff and Windsor, Vt., painter Gary Milek are showing their work at the Cider Hill Art Gallery in Windsor, Vt., from September 16 through October 28. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Art Notes: Painters Share Contrasting Views of the Connecticut

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 15, 2017

Tracie Thoms plays the title role in "Antigone in Ferguson," a production that examines the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., through the lens of Greek drama, at Dartmouth College's Hopkins Center for the Arts on Sept. 15 and 16.

Theater Preview: Social Issues and Escapism Vie for Viewers

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 7, 2017

"Dairy Farm," a painting by Pat Little, is among the works on view at Tunbridge Public Library. "Landscapes From Around New England," a show of Little's paintings, is on view through Oct. 20.

Art Notes: AVA Gallery Opens Fall Exhibitions

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 7, 2017

Mila Pinigin

AVA Hires a Familiar Face to Manage Exhibitions

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 5, 2017

John Caswell, 60, reads from Shellback, his book of prose and poetry published by the Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center inside a tarp shelter he built near the base of the ski jump at Storrs Hill in Lebanon, N.H. Monday, February 22, 2016. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

A Life: John Caswell ‘Didn’t Put People in Boxes’

by Nicola Smith Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 4, 2017August 4, 2025