“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust WE WISH YOU A VALENTINE’S DAY TO REMEMBER! Feature Image: Photograph ©Harry Benson (courtesy of the artist and Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, FL).

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” ― Theodore Roosevelt   On Memorial Day 2016, the United States continues to send soldiers into harm’s way on many fronts.  It seems like a cruel irony to fight for a more peaceful world, but it is no less of an honor...

“I am an inquisitive traveler, a witness of my time, and an ambiguous ambassador.” Tseng Kwong Chi 1950-1990   “In 1979 I went to Provincetown, and I ran into a funny beach house; I happened to have my Chinese costume with me and that is how I did my first self-portrait. Then,...

  “I could not prove the Years had feet Yet confident they run Am I, from symptoms that are past And Series that are done I find my feet have further Goals I smile upon the Aims That felt so ample—Yesterday Today’s—have vaster claims I do not doubt the self I was Was competent to […]

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”  ― Marcel Proust   In exploring the fragile balance between life and loss, joy and sorrow, Andrea Modica stirringly delineates reasons to be grateful.  In her signature 8″x...

“The picture says everything.” – Roger Ballen Join the illustrious South African photographer Roger Ballen as he discusses his award-winning and controversial work TONIGHT at the Boston University College of General Studies, 871 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 511 at 7:00pm. Closest T stop...

“I’ve looked at life from both sides now, From win and lose and still somehow, It’s life’s illusions I recall, I really don’t know life at all” – “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell Carol Isaak’s photographs coax the eye in and out of juxtaposed layers of transparencies, piercings...

“Hot town, summer in the city/Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty/Been down, isn’t it a pity/Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city All around, people looking half dead/Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head But at night it’s a different world/Go out and find...

“Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,  Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,  With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,  Let me forget about today until tomorrow.”  ― Bob Dylan   Feature Image: “2012 Perseid Meteor Shower”...

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience, is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach—waiting for a gift...