If all inspiration is considered divine, then surely 67 Newbury Street has been multiply blessed. No matter the door you use to enter the Gothic revival-style church building, the gift of art past and present, sacred and secular will surround you.
Within Boston's landmark Church of the Covenant is Gallery NAGA. The gallery is currently showing the work of Julia von Metzsch Ramos, a local artist whose present collection "Evaporating Landscapes" has been called "vigorous and distinctive" by curators. They say "Ramos uses transparent layers of paint to achieve depth and illusion. This disjunction between the layers of paint application creates a tension particularly well suited to the ever-changing New England weather."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Merrick Garland has met with two supportive Senate Democratic leaders and spoken by phone to more of his Republican opponents. But he's moved no closer to weakening the GOP barricade against changing his status from Supreme Court nominee to justice.
President Barack Obama's pick to fill the late Antonin Scalia's seat made his first courtesy calls on Capitol Hill Thursday, receiving predictably favorable reviews from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Patrick Leahy, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Yet if anything, GOP leaders dug in even further against considering his nomination, and senators left town for a two-week recess.
