Disc golf. Waterfront Manager Adam Cate. For the Burlington Parks & Recreation Commission, the controversies keep on coming. The latest: an entrepreneur’s proposal to bring guided tours, via Segways, to the Burlington Bike Path and some city sidewalks. Interested parties expect a lively public hearing on the issue next Tuesday.... Read more

The late 1960s movement in Italy called arte povera (literally, “poor art”) rejected traditions of elegance in favor of funky art-making that relied on ordinary, even unsightly materials. Of course, those artists were consciously choosing to use dirt, rags, leaves and similar elements rather than canvas, oil paint and all the other supplies they could have purchased at local art stores.... Read more

Lyric Theatre has earned a reputation over the past 35 years for serving up family-friendly entertainment. The company’s new show, a raunchy romp about male nudity and shifting gender roles, should prove no exception.... Read more

Kathleen Kolb’s hilltop studio in Lincoln is as meticulously arranged and as drenched in daylight as are her proficient paintings of pastoral Vermont. There’s nothing unkempt about her workspace or her work.... Read more

American forces did nothing to protect Iraq’s ancient treasures, nor did they show much respect for the country’s contemporary culture, when they invaded in 2003. A different ethic was evident 200 years earlier when another powerful nation tried to conquer a different Islamic land.... Read more

A bold and affecting show at the Vermont Folklife Center pairs 35-year-old photos of African American prisoners in New York with contemporary audio narratives by young Vermonters returning to society after serving time.... Read more

The influences of a few modern painters — Piet Mondrian and Helen Frankenthaler, for example — are readily evident in many of the individual works in Catherine Hall’s uneven show at the 215 College Gallery. But another of the artists she cites as influential, the great Gerhard Richter, resembles her not so much stylistically as in the versatility and virtuosity this Burlington artist has displayed throughout her four-decade career.... Read more

Not everyone is happy that Hardwick is the new site of the Vermont Food Venture Center.... Read more

Derby residents knew that Michael Dunn was a wealthy and generous art lover, but they were still shocked to learn recently that he had donated at least $10.5 million to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. MOMA was taken by surprise as well, acknowledges “delighted” director Glenn Lowry, who says it “could not have come at a better time.” Dunn’s was the largest unexpected gift ever received by the 80-year-old museum, which is closely associated with the Rockefeller family.... Read more

The oldest surviving house in Middlebury has been transformed into the newest addition to this suddenly artsy town’s lengthening list of museums and galleries.... Read more