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Web photo courtesy of Wikipedia The new issue of the New Yorker magazine has a short article about James Whistler’s durable portrait of his mother, speculating on why the painting is on the short list of iconic images in art history. The reporter, unfortunately, skips a mention of where the…
Read More »The article surfaced on the web yesterday, a Boston Globe Travel section report on the vibrant cultural life in Lowell, a city whose historic sector carries the designation of The Canalway Cultural District, thanks to the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Quickly, the news story by writer Patricia Harris and photographer David Lyon…
Read More »Joe Donahue, c. 2000 Paul Marion, c. 1986 (photo by James Higgins) At 2 p.m. today, there’s a poetry reading with these young guys pictured above at the Whistler House Museum of Art, Parker Gallery, 243 Worthen St., downtown Lowell. The program is called “The Cultural Lines of Poetry,…
Read More »Nocturne: Blue and Gold—Old Battersea Bridge (1872-75) James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1905) was nine years old when his family left Lowell and traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, where his father helped the Czar build a railroad. In Lowell, his father, George Washington Whistler, and mother, Anna Matilda McNeill, lived at…
Read More »Following are excerpts from a seqence of poems titled “Purple Ritual” in Joseph Donahue’s first book of poems, Before Creation (1989). The sequence in much longer and more complex than these passages suggest, but today it seemed important to me to share part of this composition for the record. At…
Read More »This past Friday evening the powerful documentary “Lost Child: Sayon’s Journey” was screened at the O’Leary Library on UMass Lowell’s South Campus. The 2013 film, winner of a Cine Golden Eagle Award, follows Lowell resident Sayon Soeun’s return to Cambodia where he finds family members who had lost but never forgotten…
Read More »Exhibit Criteria and Theme: The Whistler House Museum of Art is seeking entries for LOOKING AT LOWELL, a juried exhibition featuring the Architecture, Landscapes, Festivals, Rivers, Canals and People of Lowell. Entries can be from all media, including oils, acrylics, photography, sculpture, fiber and digital media. Chosen works should depict…
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