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...stadium. Allegedly, it will happen this time--they even have blueprints. But unless Boston Mayor Tom Menino and the Beacon Hill gang actually mobilize in the next few months, the situation will look awfully similar to the football stadium debacle last year that almost led to the Hartford Patriots. The Red Sox are a Boston institution. They ought to get the infrastructure that they want for this project. Everybody wins with a new stadium...
...Lemieux builds her picture out of such diverse materials is characteristic of her strategy at large. Since studying at the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford in the late '70s, Lemieux's career has involved found objects. Her use of bricks is just the latest in a stretch of utensils like nails, helmets, newspapers and book jackets. Mixed media provides Lemieux's work with a material dynamic, directing the viewer's imagination to a remembered world of objects. Lemieux's juxtapositions of these objects offer more. Effects of this doubled consciousness produce an art that draws on memory...
Both Dalis--the disruptive youthful genius and the pretentious, whorish old fanatic--are on full view at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., in a show of some 70 works titled "Dali's Optical Illusions." Its organizer, Dawn Ades, is one of the most distinguished historians of surrealism, the movement to which Dali's work was central. She has done an excellent job of showing and analyzing the ways in which illusion, the act of making marks that get read as "real," acts in his painting. No illusion, no Dali. This isn't true of other surrealists, or painters...
People should respect the abandonment of a baby as the desperate act it must be, and treat it as lifesaving rather than criminal behavior. NANCY AND KEVIN M. KELLY New Hartford...
...Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." --Hartford Courant...