On trading newspapers for palette knives and other adventures in becoming an artist at midlife
Listen to the episode Today, we zoom in with Carrie Jacobson who calls herself an Accidental Artist. That’s because she was plying a career in newspaper journalism, not really too happily, when, one day, out of the Prussian blue, she was possessed by the idea of making a painting for her husband of their six…
This moviegoer lives in ‘perpetual mild disappointment punctuated way too infrequently by euphoria and gratitude’
Listen to the episode Rand Richards Cooper takes up the Best Picture nominees As expected, our conversation overflowed the banks. Click below to hear Rand’s thoughts on whether All Quiet on the Western Front is too beautiful to make a pacifist statement and Banshees of Inisherin’s deeper existential inquiry.
In Praise of Colors: A painter writes her memoir
Listen to the episode Cat Balco is a painter, a painter writing a memoir. It’s shaping up to be about painting, but also about a lot of other things going on in her life. Cat, who teaches at Hartford Art School where I’m proud to say she taught me painting, was my inaugural guest on…
‘The Aloha Spirit Is Here’ — A Hawaiian Art Tour
Listen to the episode Today, a cure for the wintertime blues. The anti Super Bowl show, if you will, cuz in this episode, while the nation is getting ready to watch two teams knock the stuffing out of each other, we travel to that peaceful Polynesian paradise, Hawaii, land of not just natural beauty but…
He shot 11 Super Bowls: ‘It’s really, really crazy!’
Listen to the episode So. I originally intended this interview to air and stream on Superbowl Sunday, Feb 12. But then I realized that my vast global audience will be occupied with watching the pregame festivities then, so consider today’s episode a pre-pre-game festivity. It’s an interview with a Providence Journal photographer, Bob Breidenbach, who…
Mixed Media — ‘It makes your mind work in a different way.’
Listen to the episode Today, a visit with mixed media artist Kelly Taylor, whose work is abstract and inspired by her love of nature. I find it deliciously goozhy. The work looks to be built up of layers and layers of thickly applied paint, but as we’ll learn as she describes her process, there’s more…
They follow their own star: checking in with nomads Holly & Joe Whiting
“We really like leaving and the excitement of what’s next.” Listen to the episode Merry Christmas and happy every other holiday in this joyous season! Today, because you’ve been very good, a special treat! We catch up with Holly and Joe Whiting, to whom we last talked in March 2021 when they were about to…
He shoots! He scores! The art of local photojournalism
Listen to the episode Today, he may be the hardest working man in photography. Wesley Bunnell shoots your kid’s heartbreaking championship game, the town’s fourth of July parade, the cloud of cherry blossoms in bloom at Wooster Square, soft mist over the water in Branford, anything and everything that’s photoworthy and some subjects that you…
Make art, you big babies! An evening with Jerry Saltz
Listen to the episode If you’re listening to a radio show about art, it’s a safe bet you know who Jerry Saltz is. He’s an author and New York magazine’s senior art critic. He won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 2018 for his essay, “My Life as a Failed Artist” and his first book,…
A novel inspired by Artemesia Gentileschi. The message: art heals
Listen to the episode Today, a blast from my Rhode Island past. More than two decades ago, when I was a reporter in Providence, I knew a writer named Carol Bonomo Albright and she crossed my radar recently to let me know she’d gotten a novel published. It features a plot element about art –…
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