St. James Gallery-by-the-Sea will reopen Friday, Sept. 10 with an exhibition of the work of well-known artist John August Swanson. A reception will take place that evening from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 ...

One afternoon last spring, as John August Swanson and I sat in his tiny kitchen, he stopped speaking and listened intently. "That's a new song," he told me with his characteristic gentleness. I peered ...

Once upon a time there was a boy, a boy who reappears in numerous artworks. He’s a child in “The Peaceable Kingdom” (1994). A young man in different versions of the “Dream of Jacob.” He wanders ...