06.29.09   03.30.09
	FROM THE ARCHIVES 02.05 Passing Reminders some thoughts on the poets Milosz and Justice 03.03 Delivering the Arts interview: new Dean at Bentley College 03.07 Cut, Press, Stain reviewing an exhibit at the Soprafina Gallery   The Chomsky Effect By now, we all know Noam. As both scholar and activist, Chomsky has been something of a closet guru in the public sphere for the past two decades, the prototype today for the so-called "public intellectual" who speaks on diverse matters of cultural and political import. In the realm of independent media at least...  continue   The Boston Athenaeum to Present Poetry at Noon On the first Wednesday of each month through June, the Boston Athenaeum will offer Poetry at Noon. These thirty-minute readings of original work by Boston poets will be free to the public. The series begins in April with Lloyd Schwartz, known not only for his poetry but also his association...  continue
	05.22.09
	Willy Black stares at us from the canvas on the wall. The portrait shows an older woman with white hair. She has a soft smile beneath tired eyes and her face is well-wrinkled. Her mouth is frozen in a half-smile, the brushstroke shine on her lips leaves the impression that the painter captured her image in the middle of speaking. A quote from her on the wall reads, "We've taken all the places kids can learn limits away from them and set them for them, and I don't think that's right. I think that a kid has to learn to experiment...  continue
	02.24.09
	Canadian artist Betty Goodwin (1923-2008) and her husband Martin traveled forty years ago to Medina, Spain for the wedding of their son, Paul. While there, they journeyed to Tétouan, Morocco through Tangier. Goodwin documented her travels in photographs, especially the graffiti that adorned the walls and doorways of many Moroccan villages. She was enthralled by the raw markings, which denoted a moment passed, through remnants of paint-smeared handprints and coarsely scrawled imagery. After returning to Canada, Goodwin created an etching based on her photographs, titled From Tetuan On, which depicted graffiti and handprint smudges. The aquatint print is scattered with dark, gestural marks, which pool into rich tonal areas, flickering representational displays...  continue
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