FEATURING TALENTED LOCAL ARTISTS
Musical Alchemy
The era of silent films ushered in the evolutionary landslide that has led us to digital streaming, spectacular visual effects, panoramic sound and the fully immersive world that is film today. Even in the era of COVID-19 when visiting the neighborhood cinema has been replaced by streaming services and parking lot ad hoc theaters, the magic of film is magnetic and consuming.
From the moment in 1903 when The Great Train Robbery mesmerized audiences with 12 minutes of non-stop action, a new art form emerged. Stories […]
Into the Woods
Mention designer Matthew Patrick Smyth and one conjures tasteful rooms, beautiful fabrics, well-curated furniture and antiques and, most of all, comfort. A place to call home. Smyth has had his own business for over 30 years and he is still one of the most sought-after interior designers.
Finding his true calling
Smyth did not start out to be a decorator. The oldest of five children, he started out as a theater major, switched to business, and still did not feel that he had found his true calling.
“I […]
Art in the Time of Pandemic
It was inevitable. As soon as one or more of the pundits coined the phrase “life in the time of the pandemic,” we reached onto the bookshelf of memory and pulled down the copy of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s life-changing volume Love in the Time of Cholera.
This is the moment in which we live. COVID-19 is our pandemic, but it seemed to have ties to other moments in history when time stopped, when commerce ground to a halt, when lives were lost and […]
Unique Local Podcast Offers a Glimpse into The Past
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT, recently announced Hindsight is, a three-episode podcast series created in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition of Twenty Twenty, a group show of drawings in which seven artists respond to the lived experience of this historic year, on view October 12, 2020 to March 14, 2021. The series, created in the radio play genre, includes a range of historical figures from Ridgefield and across Connecticut. Actors from the […]
