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Art Collector and Preservationist Brooks Buxton Aims to Save Vermontnew

J. Brooks Buxton’s foreign acquisitions — among them 19th-century albumen photographs from the Middle East, Chinese ceramics and a Paleozoic-era trilobite from what is now Morocco — mingle with American paintings, decorative arts, heirloom furniture and books.
Seven Days  |  Pamela Polston  |  02-12-2010  |  Culture

Firehouse Gallery Gets a Boost from Warholnew

At a time when financial news is almost uniformly grim, it’s a special pleasure to get a windfall. Burlington’s Firehouse Gallery did just that with the receipt of a $75,000 grant for exhibition support from the New York-based Andy Warhol Foundation.
Seven Days  |  Pamela Polston  |  01-23-2009  |  Art

The Town of Shoreham, Vt., Takes It (Almost) All Off for a Good Causenew

The Shoreham Uncovered calendar brings a little zing to 2009 with 12 full-color photographs featuring townspeople in familiar locales -- and little else. What sets this calendar apart from its predecessors is the diversity of the participants: men and women, old folks and young, natives and newcomers are all in the buff together.
Seven Days  |  Pamela Polston  |  12-03-2008  |  Culture

Nakki Goranin Frames the History of the Photoboothnew

The Vermont photographer's new book American Photobooth is the first history of the once wildly popular and ubiquitous automatic picture-taking machine.
Seven Days  |  Pamela Polston  |  02-22-2008  |  Art

Anti-Bush Artnew

Painter Al Salzman's "Inamorato" shows Alberto Gonzales kissing George Bush's ass.
Seven Days  |  Pamela Polston  |  09-05-2007  |  Art

Retrospective: Vermont Artist Wes Disneynew

An exhibit pays tribute to the visionary artist with a resurrection of old friends and collaborators.
Seven Days  |  Pamela Polston  |  08-03-2007  |  Art

eBay Art at the Shelburne Museumnew

What would Jerry Seinfeld and Bianca Jagger buy if you gave them $1000 to spend on eBay?
Seven Days  |  Pamela Polston  |  05-18-2007  |  Art

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