The Spark

In a different take on "sitting for a portrait" Janice Breeden paints chairs as a way to express her vision of the people who use them. 

Who's this with celebrity chef Jacques Pépin? It is Sarah Cohen of Route 11 Potato Chips. Her  sweet potato chips took the gold

On stage, "extreme" casting means assigning more than one role each to the actors.   We meet director Mary Coy whose extreme version of "Romeo and Juliet" is set in a present-day mediation conference room.

The celebrated Beat poet Allen Ginsberg's upstate retreat/artists' colony/utopian crashpad was the East Hill Farm.  The farmkeeper, Gordon Ball, now lives in Lexington, Virginia, and he's put together the inside stories and pictures in his new book, East Hill Farm.  Gordon's films have appeared at MoMA and at the Guggenheim.