...from afar.What I hadn't done, at least not enough, was acknowledge the artist. I hadn't given our local painters, poets, dancers and musicians the one thing they work so hard for.I hadn't given them my measure of applause.We are...

...Nitsch - who frequently speaks of "a sense of sacred solemnity" - insists that it is. "I am everything at once: painter, poet, theater maker, musician, lyricist and sculptor," he says. "I think that art as such is absolutely free, especially...

...Gogh's artwork, performances by multimedia artist Laurie Anderson and the cutting-edge work of dozens of modern painters, poets and philosophers. But sluggish sales hurt the company, even before Borders announced its cuts. Several months...