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Eternity in an Hour (Copy)

Eternity in an Hour

"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."

-William Blake

Amazing Salamanders in Little Compton (Copy)

Amazing Salamanders in Little Compton

by Lydia Whitcomb

Newport Bridge at Sunset (Copy)

Newport Bridge at Sunset

by Tristan Pinnock

Llewellyn King: America's great gale of 2016 (Copy)

Llewellyn King: America's great gale of 2016

"Shippwrekked' by Brent Ridge (Copy)

"Shippwrekked' by Brent Ridge

"Shippwrekked (BR15-108'') (acrylic on fabric), by Brent Ridge, in show "Liz Gargas and Brent Ridge,'' at the New Art Center, Newton, Mass., March 4-April 10. The gallery says that Mr. Ridge "operates in a land of abstraction rooted in appropriation, landscape, and post-industrial aesthetics''

"Smoke" by Lisa Oppenheim (Copy)

"Smoke" by Lisa Oppenheim

"Smoke'' (installation view, two-channel video, looped), by LISA OPPENHEIM, in the "Film as Medium and Metaphor'' show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Mass.

by Lydia Davison Whitcomb (Copy)

by Lydia Davison Whitcomb

"Pond, through forest'' (oil on panel), by ROY PERKINSON (Copy)

"Pond, through forest'' (oil on panel), by ROY PERKINSON

"Pond, through forest'' (oil on panel), by ROY PERKINSON, at Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham.

The Boathouse in Westport, Mass (Copy)

The Boathouse in Westport, Mass

Photo by Lydia Davison Whitcomb

'Spawtlight: The Horrible Truth About Boston' (Copy)

'Spawtlight: The Horrible Truth About Boston'

"The parody trailer by comedy network Above Average explores a world in which the dedicated Spotlight team finishes their work on sexual abuse in the Catholic church and investigates what else is wrong with Boston: everything."

Newport (Copy)

Newport

'Better Angels: Firefighters of 9/11,' by Dawn Howkinson (Copy)

'Better Angels: Firefighters of 9/11,' by Dawn Howkinson

'Better Angels: Firefighters of 9/11,' by Dawn Howkinson Siebel, at the Wood Museum, Springfield, Mass through July 10, 2016

Her work features 343 portraits, one for every New York City firefighter lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center. The images are along a 21-foot-long wall, allowing visitors to come face to face with men who made a living out of risking their own in order to save others.

"Saturday, March 21 (1965). Afternoon. Taken on my arrival in Selma {Ala, at the Brown Chapel area," by JAMES H. BARKER (Copy)

"Saturday, March 21 (1965). Afternoon. Taken on my arrival in Selma {Ala, at the Brown Chapel area," by JAMES H. BARKER

"Saturday, March 21 {1965}. Afternoon. Taken on my arrival in Selma {Ala.}, at the Brown Chapel area," by JAMES H. BARKER, in the show "Through the Lens of History: Selma & Civil Rights,'' Grand Circle Gallery, Boston, through January.

"Consumable Sugarhouse,'' (Copy)

"Consumable Sugarhouse,''

"Consumable Sugarhouse,'' in Norwich, Vt.

“A sap run is the sweet good-bye of winter”

"Window 60 Autumn,'' by Maira Reinbergs (Copy)

"Window 60 Autumn,'' by Maira Reinbergs

"Window 60 Autumn,'' by Maira Reinbergs in the "Color Passages'' show at ArtProv gallery, Providence, through Feb. 17.

"Hydrogen 1,'' by Sarah Hulsey, in her show "Schemata" (Copy)

"Hydrogen 1,'' by Sarah Hulsey, in her show "Schemata"

"Hydrogen 1,'' by Sarah Hulsey, in her show "Schemata,'' at Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, Mass., through March 11.

An arrogant plutocrat for the masses; bees imperiled (Copy)

An arrogant plutocrat for the masses; bees imperiled

How curious that middle- and lower-income Americans who feel with some justification that they have been treated with disdain by an increasingly arrogant and selfish plutocracy turn for leadership to a sleazy, arrogant and narcissistic member of the plutocracy.

"What Lies Beneath #1'' (mixed media on board), by JAMISON FAUST (Copy)

"What Lies Beneath #1'' (mixed media on board), by JAMISON FAUST

"What Lies Beneath #1'' (mixed media on board), by JAMISON FAUST at the Art League of Rhode Island's "2016 Open Juried Exhibition'' at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium Gallery, Providence, Jan. 28-March 19.

"Snowy Beach,'' by PAUL GEORGE (Copy)

"Snowy Beach,'' by PAUL GEORGE

"Snowy Beach,'' by PAUL GEORGE, at Alpers Fine Art, Andover, Mass.

Better Than TV. (Photo By Kari Amick) (Copy)

Better Than TV. (Photo By Kari Amick)

"You Don't Say'' (oil on panel), by JULIA PURINTON (Copy)

"You Don't Say'' (oil on panel), by JULIA PURINTON

"You Don't Say'' (oil on panel), by JULIA PURINTON, at Alpers Fine Art, Andover, Mass.

The Boathouse (Copy)

The Boathouse

"Frog Prince,'' by MAXFIELD PARRISH (Copy)

"Frog Prince,'' by MAXFIELD PARRISH

"Frog Prince,'' by MAXFIELD PARRISH, at the show "The Power of Print,'' at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, N.H., through Jan. 10. Mr Parrish did much of his work in New England at the artists' colony in Cornish, N.H.

"Whale's Jaw, Dogtown,'' (Copy)

"Whale's Jaw, Dogtown,''

"Whale's Jaw, Dogtown,'' from the archives of the Cape Ann Museum, in Gloucester.

Mornings in Little Compton (Copy)

Mornings in Little Compton

by Lydia Davison Whitcomb

Mornings in Little Compton (Copy)

Mornings in Little Compton

by Lydia Davison Whitcomb

Colored Stone History (Copy)

Colored Stone History

by Lydia Davison Whitcomb

"Unihemispheric Existence'' (Copy)

"Unihemispheric Existence''

"Unihemispheric Existence'' (detail) (steel, wood, gallery wall), by WILSON HARDING LAWRENCE, in the show "Nuanced: open-endedness, capaciousness and other provocative conditions of making,'' at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, Mass., through

"Scott City'' (encaustic, oil and archival inkjet prints on wood panel), by PAIGE BERG RIZVI (Copy)

"Scott City'' (encaustic, oil and archival inkjet prints on wood panel), by PAIGE BERG RIZVI

"Scott City'' (encaustic, oil and archival inkjet prints on wood panel), by PAIGE BERG RIZVI, in the "Terrain Show'' at Fountain Street Fine Art through Jan. 10.

"Winter Light'' (oil on panel), by SUSAN CHARLES (Copy)

"Winter Light'' (oil on panel), by SUSAN CHARLES

"Winter Light'' (oil on panel), by SUSAN CHARLES, at Alpers Fine Art, Andover, Mass.

"Shock" (digital photomontage), by PETER WISE (Copy)

"Shock" (digital photomontage), by PETER WISE

"Shock" (digital photomontage), by PETER WISE, in the "Visual Alchemy'' show at Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, Mass., Jan. 2-25.

The Market Is a Snake, by MICHAEL YEFKO (Copy)

The Market Is a Snake, by MICHAEL YEFKO

"The Market Is a Snake,'' by MICHAEL YEFKO, in the show "Further on Down the Yellow Brick Road,'' at Hera Gallery, in Wakefield, R.I., through June 20. In it he explores "temporal aspects of geometry.''

"Winter Studio'' (oil on masonite), by MICHAEL DOYLE (Copy)

"Winter Studio'' (oil on masonite), by MICHAEL DOYLE

"Winter Studio'' (oil on masonite), by MICHAEL DOYLE, at Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, N.H.

Elgin, Arizona by Lydia Davison Whitcomb (Copy)

Elgin, Arizona by Lydia Davison Whitcomb

"Bodyscape'' (oil on plaster), by BETSYANN DUVAL (Copy)

"Bodyscape'' (oil on plaster), by BETSYANN DUVAL

"Bodyscape'' (oil on plaster), by BETSYANN DUVAL, at Bromfield Gallery, Boston.

"Sailing Off Morris Island (Chatham, Cape Cod)'' (Copy)

"Sailing Off Morris Island (Chatham, Cape Cod)''

"Sailing Off Morris Island (Chatham, Cape Cod),'' by BOBBY BAKER (copyright Bobby Baker Fine Photography).

"Blue Filter,''by SUSAN ALMEIDA (Copy)

"Blue Filter,''by SUSAN ALMEIDA

"Blue Filter,''by SUSAN ALMEIDA, at the New Art Center, in Newton, Mass., in show Oct. 28-Nov. 15, 2015 called the "MCC {Massachusetts Cultural Council} Artist Fellows and Finalists in Painting''.

"Physicality'' (photography, oil, narrative text and resin on panel), by SHERRY KARVER (Copy)

"Physicality'' (photography, oil, narrative text and resin on panel), by SHERRY KARVER

"Physicality'' (photography, oil, narrative text and resin on panel), by SHERRY KARVER, in her show "Objects of Affection,'' at Lanoue Gallery, Boston, through Oct. 31.

"Dream Work of Thomas Street'' (Copy)

"Dream Work of Thomas Street''

(acrylic on panel), by SHAWN KENNEY

"Karl with Honeybears" (Copy)

"Karl with Honeybears"

"Karl with Honeybears'' (oil on canvas), by DAVID PETTIBONE, at the Corey Daniels Gallery,

"smoke" (Copy)

"smoke"

"Smoke'' (installation view, two-channel video, looped), by LISA OPPENHEIM, in the "Film as Medium and Metaphor'' show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Mass.

"Elevation'' (acryllic on canvas), by Diane Novetsky, in her show 'EARTHSHIFTER (Copy)

"Elevation'' (acryllic on canvas), by Diane Novetsky, in her show 'EARTHSHIFTER

"Nero'' (Copy)

"Nero''

"Nero'' (Marquina marble), by PAUL BLOCH

"New Orleans Sketchbook, March 1-17, 2007, Lower Ninth Ward (Copy)

"New Orleans Sketchbook, March 1-17, 2007, Lower Ninth Ward

"New Orleans Sketchbook, March 1-17, 2007, Lower Ninth Ward,'' by JEFFREY MARSHALL, in the show "Katrina Then and Now: Artists as Witness,'' through Oct. 10, at Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester.

"Siberia Imagined and Reimagined" (Copy)

"Siberia Imagined and Reimagined"

Photo in Krasnoskamensk, Russia, March 2006, by SERGEY MAXIMISHIN, in the show "Siberia Imagined and Reimagined,'' at the Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, Mass., through Jan. 10.

"Arcology'' (detail; gouache and Lascaux acrylics on archival papers), by Ilona Anderson (Copy)

"Arcology'' (detail; gouache and Lascaux acrylics on archival papers), by Ilona Anderson

"Arcology'' (detail; gouache and Lascaux acrylics on archival papers), by Ilona Anderson, in her show "Arcology,'' at Kingston Gallery, Boston.

"Resonance: book in time II'' (Copy)

"Resonance: book in time II''

"Resonance: book in time II'' show at Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, Mass., Dec. 6-Jan. 16. It's a collection of individual and collaborative artists' books by Ann Forbush, Ania Gilmore and Annie Zeybekoglu.

"Civil Rights Marchers Walking from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on Monday, March 23, 1965,'' (Copy)

"Civil Rights Marchers Walking from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on Monday, March 23, 1965,''

"Civil Rights Marchers Walking from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on Monday, March 23, 1965,'' photo by JAMES BARKER, in the show "Through the Lens of History: Selma & Civil Rights at the Grand Circle Gallery,'' Boston, through January.

"Pine Needles'' (traditional analog photography) by KRISTI BEISECKER (Copy)

"Pine Needles'' (traditional analog photography) by KRISTI BEISECKER

"Pine Needles'' (traditional analog photography) by KRISTI BEISECKER, in the "Visual Alchemy: Tangible Evidence of Experimentation, Discovery and Transformation'' show at Fountain Street Fine Art, Framingham, Mass., Jan. 2-25.

"Winter Portrait" (Copy)

"Winter Portrait"

" Winter Portrait" | Hampton Beach State Park, New Hampshire © Bobby Baker Photography

"Fish Heads'' by Angela Ales (Copy)

"Fish Heads'' by Angela Ales

"Fish Heads'' (acrylic and oil on canvas), by ANGELA ALES, in her show "Archtypes,'' at Galatea Fine Art, Boston, Jan. 2-31.

Reeding (Copy)

Reeding

by Lydia Davison Whitcomb

Two Crows,'' by JAMES REED (Copy)

Two Crows,'' by JAMES REED

"Two Crows,'' by JAMES REED, in his show at Gallery19, in Essex, Conn., through June 30

"Dream Work of Thomas Street'' (acrylic on panel), by SHAWN KENNEY (Copy)

"Dream Work of Thomas Street'' (acrylic on panel), by SHAWN KENNEY

"Unquiet City XXA'' in the "Boston Through the Eyes of Robert Hesse Collection'' (Copy)

"Unquiet City XXA'' in the "Boston Through the Eyes of Robert Hesse Collection''

"Unquiet City XXA'' (pigment print on canvas) in the "Boston Through the Eyes of Robert Hesse Collection'' at the Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich, N.H.