SAUK COUNTY, Wis. — A small crowd stood at the edge of a wide hayfield as opera music blared across the rural Wisconsin expanse. A combination of giggles and breathless wonder took hold of the ...
EDITOR' S NOTE: Big Country Journalist Ron Erdrich has been taking a break, so here's a flashback to a 2012 column. KNOX CITY — Public art can be a two-edged sword. At its best, it can bring a ...
American artists have long been drawn to agrarian subjects in their work, from Winslow Homer in the 19th century to the 1930s Regionalism movement, which included painters like John Steuart Curry and ...