Arts & Culture

Parting Shot: Tom Bamberger

Tom Bamberger’s “Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film” will be on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College through July 29.

June Portfolio: Linda Montano

By Alysa Sullivan

Linda Montano has explored art, life, and spirituality in her innovative performance work for almost 40 years.

Jan Harrison has invented her own language, literally. It’s called “Animal Tongues,” and she began speaking it in 1979. Though she doesn’t consider herself a performance artist, Harrison sometimes publicly sings—and speaks—in Animal Tongues.

Faces of War

By Nina Shengold

“Faces of War: Kamdesh and the Korengal Outpost, Afghanistan” is an intimate portrait of the day-to-day life of US soldiers on the front lines.

Museum Piece

By Peter Aaron

“Natural History” is a bittersweet chamber piece—four different vignettes in four different rooms of the Museum of Natural History.

The Silent Treatment

By Caitlin McDonnell

Those seeking an exposé in Into Great Silence—Carthusians: Beneath the Hood?—will find unanswered prayers in this digital scrapbook.

Food & Drink

Sweet and Sharp: Hudson Valley Onions

The illustrious history of onion farming in the Hudson Valley most certainly began in the famed black dirt of Orange County.

Books

Desert Bloom

Morrow writes like an architect, using intricate mathematical structures to create three-dimensional worlds full of beauty and light.

Book Review: The Futurist

By Jason Stern

Othmer has done a marvelous dissection of early 21st-century culture, tossed the pieces into a blender, and poured out a first-rate satirical novel in which tomorrow is to die for.