Category: ArtBeat
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ArtBeat – Steve Solinsky and Frank Francis at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center
By Ed Goldman The new show(s) debuting on Saturday at Viewpoint Photographic Art Center—Steve Solinsky’s “Of Stillness & Light” and Frank Francis’s “Along the Wide Rivers of Bangladesh”—offer dissimilar but equally eye-popping color photography, brilliant displays of emotional content, transcendence and technical virtuosity. It makes you wonder why anyone still consigns photography, along with often…
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ArtBeat – McHugh’s Candy Store Gallery
by Ed Goldman In my late 20s I was accosted in a small art gallery by a solid, stern older woman who began to tell me what I should buy—and why. Taking in her quasi-Mammy Yoakum ensemble and emphatic tone, I almost said something rude but thought better of it, life being short, seniors deserving…