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Yesterday's Boston Globe reported on a New England group I am ashamed not to have known about. Franco-Americans, who once comprised a "virtually separate nation within New England: Le Quebec d'en Bas--Quebec Down Below," are spread across five New England states and make up 17 percent of its population...
...shut again. The only relief from the close churning of forms is a curious "window" at the middle of the painting -- red, white and blue -- that looks like a blurred American flag. The work's space is not deep, as the title might suggest, but shallow, like a bas-relief. You keep expecting the image to fly apart into formal incoherence, but it never does: it has the kind of control you see in great drivers or skaters, a supple rigor that seems to exist only on the edge of its own dissolution. One is tempted to say that Excavation...
Counter said the structure is approximately 5 ft. by 4 ft. "It's very large, done in jet-black granite and gold," Counter said. "It has his face in bas-relief in gold with 'Arthur Robert Jr. Ashe,' then 'Distinguished Athlete. Scholar and Humanitarian...
Underneath that is a bas-relief gold representation of Ashe's book about the history of Black athletes in American culture, "A Hard Road to Glory." It sits atop two crossed gold tennis rackets, representing Ashe's well-known career, Counter said...
...French naturalist Henri Mouhot came upon an enchanting temple buried in the jungle of western Cambodia. It thrust spires of finely carved sandstone into the sky, and its open galleries held an artistic treasure: more than a mile of delicate bas-relief stone panels. "It is grander than anything left us by Greece and Rome," wrote Mouhot in his diary...