‘Memory Palace’ a haunting story of illness, loss and remembrance
Norma Kurap Herr was a talented musician when she started hearing voices at age 19. She struggled with schizophrenia for the rest of her life, and was in and out of psychiatric wards and often homeless before she died at age 80.
In this new memoir Mira Bartok, one of Herr’s two daughters, describes in heartbreaking detail her mother’s descent into chaos and its effect on the author and her sister.
Herr frequently threatened to kill herself and warned her daughters to be careful because someone, perhaps Nazis, might try to kidnap, kill or rape them. At night she would pound on her daughters’ bedroom door, screaming and frightening them. In one scary scene, Herr grabs a broken bottle, pins the author to the floor, slices into her neck and threatens to kill her.
Finally, as young adults, Bartok and her sister reluctantly decide to change their names and cut off all contact with their mother. They communicate with her through a post office box, but do not see her again for 17 years.
Bartok is an engaging writer who helps us see the devastation of schizophrenia and its cruel impact on a brilliant woman who loved music and art, but was captive to a malady that took control of her brain. Bartok quotes another schizophrenic as saying, “It’s like your head is plugged into every electric socket in every house on every street.”
The book excels in its exploration of the fragility of memory, which is particularly relevant here because Bartok was involved in a horrific traffic accident that severely damaged her brain in 1999. It appears that she still has difficulty performing simple everyday tasks.
Bartok describes the science of memory, the impact of brain damage on memory, and the difficulty of trying to write an accurate memoir when her memory is foggy and sometimes differs from what her sister recalls. The author admits her confusion and uncertainty about certain particulars and conversations.
Before the age of 10, she writes, children “have a kind of childlike amnesia.” As adults, they might learn about long-ago events from someone who cannot tell the difference between reality and a dream.
The author’s discussion of her leaky memory raises the obvious question of how she could recall numerous word-for-word conversations from decades ago.
The book’s title comes from a Jesuit priest who visited China to teach scholars how to create an imaginary palace to keep their memories safe.
Although the first half of this book captures the reader’s interest as it describes the chaos of living with a schizophrenic mother, much of the second half meanders as Bartok travels to Italy, Israel, and Norway for extended stays. She writes children’s books, marries and divorces a man who suffers from apparent bipolar illness, pursues her devotion to art and sets out to learn more about her dad, “an aspiring alcoholic writer” who left the family when the author was 4 years old.
But these chapters serve as a diversion that take us away from the central theme of Bartok’s complicated, strained relationship with her sick mother, who loves her daughters deeply even while she while she is gripped by a terrible illness.
When Bartok and her sister learn in 2006 that their mother is dying from cancer, they return to Cleveland to be with her. They find the key to a U-Haul storage locker where their mom has put family memorabilia, journals and letters that bring back memories and show how much she loved them.
In a poignant scene of mother-daughter love and renewed connection, the author helps her terminally ill mother to the bathroom, and then assists her as they move slowly back toward the mother’s bed.
“We stay in the middle of the room for a long time, holding on to each other” Bartok writes. “I wrap my arms around her tighter. My mother closes her eyes and relaxes into my embrace.”
The Memory Palace: A Memoir, by Mira Bartok. Free Press, 305 pp., $25
Bill Williams is a freelance writer in West Hartford, Conn., and a former editorial writer for The Hartford Courant. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Seraphic Fire’s wonderful ‘St. John Passion’ sets landmark
It’s true that the Miami-based concert choir Seraphic Fire is a national organization that draws many of its singing members, as well as the personnel for its Firebird Chamber Orchestra, from across the country.
But it is also nevertheless true that on Saturday night in a church in Fort Lauderdale, a large audience saw a South Florida musical organization that was able to perform a compelling, moving reading of the St. John Passion of J.S. Bach with thorough expertise and polish. And that is cause for celebration.
Patrick Dupré Quigley’s remarkable group has tackled Bach numerous times, from a program featuring all six of the composer’s motets to the current Brandenburg Concerto project, and the B minor Mass (which is returning for the choir’s 10th season next year). The St. John Passion, in some ways trickier than any of those because of the wide variety of things the chorus is asked to do, establishes another important landmark for local music-making, one that Seraphic Fire brought off beautifully in its concert at All Saints Episcopal.
Led by a strong performance by tenor Bryon Grohman as the Evangelist, Quigley led a 12-person choir and 12-person orchestra through a lively and forceful performance of the Passion in which tempos were relatively swift, and the characterizations by the singers were persuasive and well-sung.
Grohman has a light, keening tenor sound that is very well-suited for music of the German Baroque; in addition to his clarity of diction he also underlined the text, adding a sense of sharp tension to the word “schrieen” when it occurred in passages such as Sie schrieen aber (They cried out).
Baritone Paul Max Tipton made a fine Jesus, with a plushly carpeted baritone and a sense of regal resignation, and James Bass was equally fine as Pilate, singing with sober precision, and adding a calm beauty to his solo work in Eilt, ihr angefocht’nen Seelen.
Other lovely work came from the reliable countertenor Reggie Mobley, who sang Von der Stricken with great tenderness, and from soprano Kathryn Mueller in her Ich folge der gleichfalls. Mueller had some difficulty, volume-wise, in the first moments with this treacherous aria’s high-flying motif, but by the end had captured the sense of happiness and joyful service that fills this song.
Tenor Brad Diamond was appropriately anguished with his Ach, mein Sinn, singing with a near-manic approach, and mezzo Misty Bermudez gave a masterful, somber-colored rendition of Es is vollbracht. Tenor Dann Coakwell (Erwäge, wie sein blutgefärbter Rücken) and soprano Nacole Palmer (Zerfleiße, mein Herze) also sang their demanding arias ably.
The most engaging singing came from baritone Charles Wesley Evans, whose silky baritone moved beautifully through Betrachte, meine Seel’ to its closing Unterlauß auf Ihn. But it was his second aria, Mein teurer Heiland, that was the peak of the solo work Saturday night, his voice floating radiantly above the chorus quietly entering with Jesu, der du warest tot, and ending with a superb sense of surprised-by-joy in his final Ja!
The choir itself was wonderful, singing each of the multiple chorales with a glossy sheen and crisp ensemble (especially the repeated breaks after the first two notes throughout), and adding tremendous excitement to the proceedings in its roles as the crowd, particularly in the rising chromaticism of Wäre dieser nicht ein Übeltäter, and the babbling polyphony of the calls for crucifixion (Weg, weg mit dem).
The orchestra was every bit as good, with excellent instrumental work from every player, especially bassoonist Anthony Ancura, cellist Brian Howard (in Es ist vollbracht) and oboist Jeremy Kesselman, whose English horn work on Zerfließe, mein Herze was marvelous. Quigley and his forces brought the whole thing home with a rapturous Ruht wohl, which got increasingly gorgeous with each repetition.
Not everything was perfect in this performance, but as a whole it stands with some of this group’s finest work, primarily because the listener could enjoy the music at a level of accomplishment that allowed him or her to appreciate the magnificence of Bach’s conception, his astonishing harmonic and melodic daring, his brilliance at setting text and making it come truly alive.
Lovers of the Baroque, of Bach, and of his Passion music, should make a point of attending the repeat performances of this work tonight in Miami or tomorrow afternoon in Fort Lauderdale. It is, again, a point of real cultural pride that a challenging masterwork of Western culture such as the St. John Passion can be performed so well, so powerfully, by a group that calls South Florida home.
Seraphic Fire performs the St. John Passion tonight at 8 at Trinity Cathedral in Miami, and at 4 p.m. Sunday at All Saints Episcopal in Fort Lauderdale. Tickets range from $50 to $60, depending on the venue. Call 305-285-9060 or visit www.seraphicfire.org.
Weekend arts picks: March 18-20
Art: Here’s one way of tying together a lot of disparate work: the alphabet.
Tomorrow, the Norton Museum of Art opens From A to Z: 26 Great Photographs from the Norton Collection, which is exactly what it sounds like – a group of photos arranged by photographer’s names from A to Z. The “X” photographer is Chinese-born Xiaoze Xie, and the “Z” photographer in this exhibit is George Zimbel, 82, whose most famous shot is one of Marilyn Monroe, skirts billowing above the subway grate. Other photographers represented in the exhibit include Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, as well as the French photographer Valérie Belin.
The show also includes American Gothic (1942), by Gordon Parks, an iconic photo of Farm Security Administration chairwoman Ella Watson, and other photographs that document important events in American history. The exhibit was curated by Charles Stainback from the Norton’s collection of more than 3,000 photographs.
The exhibit opens Saturday and runs through June 17. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, except for Thursday, when closing is at 9 p.m.; the museum also is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is $12 for adults. Call 832-5196 for more information.
Film: While the 16th annual Palm Beach International Film Festival may not be as sweet as its longevity suggests, it does open on Wednesday, March 23, with a winner of a film, Win Win, the third and most assured feature from actor-turned-screenwriter/director Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent, The Visitor). It stars doughy Everyman Paul Giamatti as a sad sack New Jersey lawyer, barely keeping his practice afloat, who compromises his ethics with a client drifting into dementia (Burt Young), to help his cash flow. And it looks for a while that he may just luck out, when the client’s grandson arrives and he turns out to be a first-rate wrestler, who helps Giamatti’s high school squad break its losing streak. McCarthy has a great eye for casting, and he populates the supporting roles with such first-rate talent as Amy Ryan, Bobby Cannavale and Melanie Lynskey. For scheduling information on the festival, go to www.pbifilmfest.org. – H. Erstein
Theater: Entr’Acte Theatrix, the professional offshoot of Palm Beach Principal Players, follows up its earlier productions of Hair and Cabaret, inaugurating a black box performance space within the former International Museum of Cartoon Art with You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, the Peanuts musical, this weekend and next. The show choice may be less “edgy” than the company’s previous choices, but director-choreographer Kimberly Dawn Smith expects to add relevance to the audience-friendly show by emphasizing its “anti-bullying” message, Charlie’s low-esteem, Lucy’s bossy behavior and Pig Pen’s hygiene woes. Call (877) 877-7677 for tickets. – H. Erstein
Music: One of the major landmarks of the current season occurs tonight and through Sunday with a performance by Seraphic Fire of the St. John Passion of J.S. Bach.
Bach apparently wrote five settings of the Passion during his 27 years of service for St. Thomas’ Church in Leipzig. Only two have survived – the St. Matthew and the St. John – and while the St. Matthew is generally considered one of his greatest works, the St. John is more dramatic in some ways, and closer to opera (the tenor aria, Ach, mein Sinn, for example, and the chorus Wir durfen niemand Todten).
Seraphic Fire will perform the work with its Firebird Chamber Orchestra, all under the direction of Patrick Dupre Quigley, and given this group’s general excellence, it’s likely to be a memorable and satisfying performance. The St. John Passion will be given three times, once tonight at 7:30 and again at 4 p.m. Sunday at All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale, and at 8 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Cathedral in Miami. Tickets range from $50-$60, depending on the venue. For more information, call 305-285-9060.
The South Korean-born pianist Yoonjung Han has a busy year ahead, with performances next month at the Bergamo Festival in Italy and a performance of the Beethoven Fourth Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic in November.
Han, who studied at Julliard and Curtis and is currently pursuing a doctorate at SUNY-Stony Brook, performed last night on the Piano Lovers series and offers another concert Saturday night as part of the Sylvia Parker series at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton. Han will play the Bach Partita No. 1 (in B-flat, BWV 825), the Haydn Sonata No. 52 (in E-flat, Hob. XVI: 52), Liszt’s La Campanella and Mephisto Waltz No. 1, and two pieces from Granados’ Goyecas: Los requiebros and El amor y la muerte.
Han, who’s 26, is appearing under the auspices of the London-based Keyboard Charitable Trust, which helps fund the careers of rising young musicians. Judging by her work on her YouTube channel [http://www.youtube.com/user/YoonjungHan], she already is quite a fine pianist, and her concert offers a chance for fans of the piano literature to catch someone who should have a long and distinguished career. She performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Unitarian Fellowship, which is at 2601 St. Andrews Blvd. in Boca Raton. Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 at the door. Call 451-4212 for more information.
The Boca Symphonia sees the return this weekend of Philippe Entremont, who will take a seat at the piano along with violinist Ludwig Mueller and cellist Christopher Pantillon for the Beethoven Triple Concerto (in C, Op. 56). Entremont is a big fan of this work, and it doesn’t get as many hearings as it should (one of the last locally was several years ago at the Four Arts).
Also on the program is one of several arrangements the violist and conductor Rudolf Barshai fashioned from the music of his countryman Dmitri Shostakovich: the Chamber Symphony (Op. 73a) based on the String Quartet No. 3 (in F, Op. 73). In addition, Entremont has programmed the Sextet from Richard Strauss’ opera Capriccio. The concert begins at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Roberts Theater, St. Andrew’s School, Boca Raton.
The View From Home 22: New releases on DVD
Around a Small Mountain (Cinema Guild)
Release date: March 8
Standard list price: $26.99
Could it be that French director Jacques Rivette, the New Wave lion who just turned 83, is finally slowing down? What else can we make of the fact that his latest feature, which could very well be his last, is a scant 84 minutes? For Rivette, Around a Small Mountain is the equivalent of most directors’ short films. His leanest titles usually come in around 150 minutes, and his 270-minute film Out 1: Spectre was pared down from a 12-hour movie shot for French television.
It’s a testament to Rivette’s style – a mix of realistic scripted dialogue with improvisation and documentary-like diversions – that his films never feel their length, and Around a Small Mountain goes by like a passing train. It stars Sergio Castelitto as Vittorio, an enigmatic Italian vagabond -- a man without a past and, apparently, without a future. All we know of him is presented onscreen: We first see him pull over on a mountainous road to silently repair a broken-down car driven by Kate (Jane Birkin, growing into a doppelganger for Annette Bening). Their film-opening encounter is like an anti- meet-cute. No words are exchanged, and the drifter drifts on.
But their destinations, apparently, are the same, because they soon bump into each other again and speak the movie’s first lines of dialogue. Kate is returning to her late father’s dilapidated circus that she fled 15 years earlier when, as we later learn, a horrific accident left her banished from the business. Bringing herself back into the fold, Kate upsets the circus’s proverbial apple cart, which was already in shambles. The way Rivette directs it, the clown sketches, high-wire acts and feats of derring-do are presented like self-conscious performance art, played to catatonic, microscopically small audiences that make Clint Eastwood’s ragtag rodeo in Bronco Billy look like Ringling Brothers.
Then there’s Vittorio, who won’t seem to go away. If he carries a torch for Kate, he doesn’t do a very good job keeping it lit. Rather than slowly build up a romance, Rivette casts his two leads as impenetrable strangers whose brief, staccato conversations usually end disagreeably.
The absence of sentimentality and conventional plot mechanics is refreshing. Rivette frees his characters from the structure of narratives and just let them be, so that by the end, we tend to understand them as people even if we don’t understand, per se, the causal transition from one scene to the other. Character is always foregrounded over plot – a radical decision by Hollywood standards.
Rivette’s formal decisions are just as unconventional -- and just as pleasing. He films most scenes in long, observational takes, planting the camera on a tripod and following his characters’ small movements. There is almost no multi-camera coverage. It’s indescribably wonderful not to have to sit through another endless procession of shot-reverse-shot conversations. Formally and narratively, from the next edit to the next scene, we don’t know what we’re going to see. As a result, the spectator discovers the story along with the characters, rather than anticipates its inevitabilities – of which, in this case, there are none.
The director’s admirers will no doubt appreciate the film’s circus stagecraft, only the latest example of Rivette’s ongoing smudging of the boundaries between art, craft and life. His films are a veritable dissertation on the artificiality of performance vis-a-vis the messy realities of the real world, a theme that can be traced to his Paris Belongs to Us, Love on the Ground, The Gang of Four, La Belle Noiseuse, Va Savoir and, to some extent, his most well-known movie, Celine and Julie Go Boating.
At under an hour and half, Around a Small Mountain may be the best introduction to Rivette’s world view; needless to say, it’s one of most overlooked films of 2010 – a sheer joy from beginning to end.
Rage (Strand)
Release date: March 8
SLP: $22.49
Spanish director Sebastian Cordero directed this moody pseudo-noir about an immigrant construction worker with severe anger management issues. Unable to control the rage boiling inside of him, Jose (Gustavo Sanchez Parra) attacks, and eventually murders, anyone who all but looks at his new girlfriend Rosa (Martina Garcia), the housemaid of the Torreses, an affluent married couple. When Jose pushes his former boss to his death, he hides out like an animal under the Torreses’ noses – or, to be precise, above the noses – in their attic, surrounded by rat feces. Gazing at the family through keyholes, Jose becomes a living, voyeuristic ghost, haunting the creaky floorboards and calling Rosa on occasion from the upstairs telephone while never revealing his whereabouts (lest he is captured by the inquisitive authorities). In this bleak, cynical picture, only Rosa is worth cheering for; Jose is a disturbed man who needs the mental health he’ll never receive, and the Torreses are a family of pampered, bourgeois miscreants, lechers and cockroaches plucked from a Bunuel film. But eventually, the movie sheds its moody, violent tone and becomes even more effective as a tragic story of forbidden love.
Letters to Father Jacob (Olive Films)
Release date: March 8
SLP: $26.99
Aki Kaurismaki may be the poster boy for Finnish cinema, but Klaus Haro now has eight movies under his belt, most of them heavy dramas and documentaries with minuscule distribution. His latest, Letters to Father Jacob, is a small, austere piece about a soul who needs saving and a blind priest fearful of his increasing irrelevancy in the modern world. The title character lives in a remote cottage blanketed by the gorgeous, agrestic Finnish landscape, where he waits daily for handwritten letters from parishioners who seek his prayers and advice. Unable to read the letters himself, he hires the newly pardoned Leila, a death-row inmate, whose shelter he provides in exchange for the opportunity to heal her emotional scars. It’s telling that there is almost no sign of electronic communication in the film; everything in Letters to Father Jacob, including the transport of letters, is slower than in most movies. The film is an understated, minor-key redemption song with a predictably elliptical climax. Compared to the ascetic examinations of faith in the films of Bergman or Bresson, it’s small potatoes.
Hemingway’s Garden of Eden (Lionsgate)
Release date: March 15
SLP: $17.99
Crazy chicks are totally in vogue right now. But next to such stake-raising fare as Natalie Portman in Black Swan, Amanda Seyfried in Chloe and Leighton Meester in The Roommate, Mena Suvari’s borderline-suffering, shape-shifting flapper in Garden of Eden is a rather quaint psycho, acting out her pathology sexually in the bland environs of this adaptation of an unfinished Hemingway story. Catherine, Suvari’s imposing socialite, rushes a marriage to writer David Bourne (Jack Huston, of Boardwalk Empire fame), and most of the film charts the disintegration of their newfound relationship during an extended honeymoon in Europe. Changing her physical appearance as frequently as her moods, Catherine subjects David to demeaning sexual fantasies and belittles his literary kudos, finally inviting a sexy visitor (Caterina Murino) they meet on their holiday to spice up, and tear apart, their sex life. Hemingway’s Garden of Eden is postcard-pretty prestige porn, a sunlit Zalman King wannabe that celebrates, rather than exposes, hedonistic bourgeois vacuity. John Irvin, who directed Hamburger Hill and Next of Kin, can’t establish an iota of emotional connection to any of these people, and the film’s one strong element – its effective eroticism – dissipates into a laughable, cliché-riddled melodrama.
Hudson River painters captured glory of a rising nation
In the final room of the exhibit Hudson River School Masterpieces from the New-York Historical Society, now on view at The Society of the Four Arts through Sunday, there are two striking portraits of the men considered to be the fathers of the movement: Thomas Cole and Asher Durand.
One could also pronounce them the fathers of American art because, during their lifetimes, they gave credence to the United States as a place where artists could find unparalleled inspiration – and make a viable living with their work.
Thomas Cole was merely 22 when his work was discovered, in 1825, in a New York City shop by Durand and two other painters, John Trumbull and William Dunlap. They quickly purchased all three of his paintings (for a mere $25 each) and Trumbull remarked to the dealer, “I am delighted, and at the same time mortified. This youth has done at once, and without instruction, what I cannot do after 50 years of practice.”
Durand and Cole would develop a bond of friendship that lasted until Cole’s untimely death in 1848.
When you look at the portraits of Cole and Durand, you are looking at two men who are emblematic of the idealism that dominates the work of the Hudson River School. These painters boldly traipsed the “path less taken” and returned, not just with pretty pictures, but with pictures that would later be recognized as ones that built a national identity.
The portrait of Cole was done by his friend, Daniel Huntington. In it he looks like the kind and humble man that he is often portrayed as. Durand painted his own self-portrait in which he shows himself as an earnest young man who seems to be on the verge of doing something great.
The Hudson River, which flows south 315 miles from its origin in the Adirondacks to the port of New York City, was the epicenter of American art because of both its proximity to the city, a major center for commerce and therefore a place where wealthy collectors would congregate, and because of its unbridled beauty. The painters worked from the city northward and that is how the exhibit is arranged.
“The paintings are grouped together to illustrate a trip up the Hudson River into the heart of the Catskills and beyond and then also further afield,” said curator Linda Farber, senior art historian for the New-York Historical Society.
As you travel northward on the river from the city, you move into the valley that surrounds it. It is a place of sublime beauty. There is a plethora of magnificent vistas that can still be seen today, though not quite as uncluttered. These are what inspired Cole, Durand and their followers.
Those that have seen it know that the river has moods. These depend on season and light. In the winter it can be stark and foreboding. In the autumn it can be glorious surrounded by a myriad of changing colors.
“There is dramatic weather on the Hudson and in the Catskills,” Farber said. “Artists would use this to evoke an emotional response.”
There is one mood, though, that seems to dominate and that is the serene mood that is evoked by the glow of sunlight found at either the beginning or the end of the day. This famous glow actually led to the second generation of artists – such as Frederick Edwin Church and John Frederick Kensett – to be later aptly named the Luminists.
The glow is evident, at the beginning of our journey, in New York Harbor, N.Y., by Francis Augustus Silva. It was the Hudson, after the completion of the Erie Canal, which contributed to the vibrant growth of New York City. Here, Silva captures both the busy port and returning boats with a quiet stillness.
But it was actually to escape the bustle of city that artists fled northward into the Hudson River Valley for retreat and respite. The most famous paintings of this era are of unblemished views of the valley awash in greenery with little other than nature, and an occasional traveler or animal, to dominate the canvas. Nature plays the starring role in these works, causing many to view these painters as the first environmentalists. For many, nature represented not just an escape from the banal, but also a spiritual mecca.
You can see the type of worship that was bestowed on the natural landscape in paintings such as Adirondack Mountains, N.Y., by Asher Durand. It would be easy to think that Durand may have embellished in the work, perhaps making the scenery more beautiful than it actually was. But admirers of the Hudson Valley, even today, will tell you that this is actually how beautiful the region is. So one sees through Durand’s eyes how even more awe-inspiring it was before there were houses, shopping malls and corporations dotting the landscape.
This exhibit also draws attention to the fact that many of these artists traveled to Italy as an additional source of inspiration. Cole studied and lived in Italy twice. You can see this influence in works such as his Study for Dream of Arcadia. Italy is beautifully depicted in View of the Roman Coliseum at Sunset, Italy, by Thomas Hiram Hotchkiss, amongst others. Italy represented a place of romantic ideals and historical lessons learned.
The exhibit also brings you to areas beyond the Hudson where these artists traveled for additional respite, recreation and inspiration. Jasper Francis Cropsey’s Greenwood Lake, New Jersey depicts the location of his summer home. It’s the place where he met and courted the woman who became his wife. Additional works show other areas throughout New England where these painters traveled for inspiration. It’s a joyful journey—one that has not just artistic, but deep historical, significance.
The most important part of the legacy of these artists is that they bore witness to a nascent country that would soon be engulfed by the effects of industry, which would forever change this landscape. They captured a moment and their work defined our nation to outsiders before modern communications devices were available to capture or transmit images and sounds. They felt it was their duty, and — for many — their calling, to do so.
They would convey on canvas how one feels — the quiet gasp for air — that results when being overwhelmed by the powerful beauty of nature.
Jenifer Mangione Vogt is a marketing communications professional and resident of Boca Raton. She’s been enamored with painting for most of her life. She studied art history and received her B.A. from Purchase College.
Hudson River School Masterpieces from the New-York Historical Society is now on view at The Society of the Four Arts until March 20, 2011. Hours for this exhibition are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5. For more information call 655-7226, or visit www.fourarts.org.


