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The Shelburne Museum opens for the season this weekend with an olfactory rush: “Lilac Sunday” is nearly as renowned as the museum’s vast cache of folk art and artifacts. But the glory of spring blossoms is brief, while the new exhibits, along with the permanent collections, will be on view through October 26. That’s a generous expanse of time in which visitors can — and should — see what the Shelburne is up to now.... Read more

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The WHOOPSIE! Grrls stormed The Flynndog Friday night. Kat Clear's steel sculptures of 50s pin-ups girls were planted in green grass and ready to greet the crowd.

Read more about the Lamentations Awareness Project in Pamela Polston's State of the Arts story.

When Fox’s big-budget animated version of Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who opens this Friday, audiences will hear the voices of stars like Jim Carrey and Steve Carell. But some of the images of cavorting critters they’ll see on screen come from the Burlington studio of freelance animator Jason Taylor.... Read more

When Polaroid announced last week the demise of its fabled instant camera, the nostalgia began, well, instantly. So did the stockpiling of self-developing film. It was a coincidence that in the same week, a new book documenting the rise and fall of another late, great photographic phenomenon was published: American Photobooth by Burlington photographer Näkki Goranin. The 224-page volume is extensively researched and amply illustrated with hundreds of images from Goranin’s vast personal collection.... Read more

Kat Clear: girly girl or woman of steel? A recent visit to the artist and signmaker’s Williston workshop finds her combining those two personae in one spirited self.... Read more

Peter Miller may be the only Vermonter who insists on calling his town Colbyville — most people call it Waterbury — but this week he’s providing another reason to put that sliver of the state on the map: the Peter Miller Photography Gallery. He’s transformed the first floor of his house on Crossroad — just off Route 100 and a stone’s throw from the Ben & Jerry’s factory — into an exhibition space for his own monumental body of work.... Read more

This year’s South End Art Hop features some 500 artists, but there’s a good chance only one of them made a painting of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales kissing the ass of President George W. Bush. Titled “Inamorato,” it’s one of seven large-scale, oval, tempera-and-acrylic works that compose Al Salzman’s “Garden of Earthly Delights,” which is on view through October 13 at Speaking Volumes on Pine Street.... Read more

Pictures are proverbially worth a thousand words, but it's unusual to hear even half that many on how artworks are actually made -- outside the classroom, anyway. To the casual viewer, the often-complicated steps from blank paper to finished product are a mystery. Printmakers in particular are notoriously "protective of the little things they think they've invented," says Bill Davison.... Read more

For Leslie Hall, beauty is in the eye of the BeDazzler. Remember them? They're crafty plastic stapler-like gizmos from the 1970s that affix rhinestones and metal studs to fabric. Hall, a 23-year-old Iowa native who graduated last spring from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is a devotee. She particularly loves to admire and collect BeDazzled sweaters, or mass-produced gem sweaters of any kind.... Read more

Parker Croft considers Vermont, where his family goes back seven generations, to be “the most wonderful place on Earth.”

Accordingly, when the Middlebury architect and assistant professor visited a country on the opposite side of the planet five years ago, the maple sugar candy he brought along gave him an unanticipated entree to an ancient culture. Although he was in India to help establish a health-care facility, Croft found himself on a magical mystery tour that redefined his aesthetic sensibility as well as his notion of certainty.... Read more