Arts & Entertainment
Ray Ellis, the haberdasher, out-earned Ray Ellis, the artist, when his necktie fetched $150,000 for the Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust at the annual Taste of the Vineyard auction on Saturday night.
Longtime summer visitor Scott Earl, who last year bid $225,000 to take home a Ray Ellis oil painting, bought the artist’s tie right off his neck right after winning the bidding for three watercolors by Mr. Ellis. Mr. Earl spent $90,000 on the three paintings, bidding against summer resident Pat Morgan for the prize as he has for the past two years.
MY SIDE OF THE CAR. By Kate Feiffer, illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Candlewick Press. Somerville. April 2011. 32 pages, illustrations. $16.99 hardcover.
In their new book My Side of the Car, author and Oak Bluffs resident Kate Feiffer and her father, Pulitzer Prize and Oscar-winning illustrator Jules Feiffer, hand the reader the quintessential and timeless story of the father-daughter relationship. Written with the purity of childhood memories and illustrated with graceful humor, the Feiffers have hit the nail right on the head.
Up Close With Jaws
Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard is making its debut trip to the wider world on Tuesday, June 21 at the West Tisbury Public Library. The project, a massive undertaking featuring an exhaustive and engaging collection of pictures and stories from the making of the movie Jaws, was created by Matt Taylor and Jim Beller. It is magnificent.
VanLandingham Exhibit
Island-born painter Dan VanLandingham, fresh from receiving his master of fine arts degree at Savannah College of Art and Design, will exhibit his Vineyard landscapes at Dragonfly Fine Arts Gallery. Mr. VanLandingham is the featured artist at the gallery through June 22.
The gallery is at 91 Dukes County avenue in the arts district in Oak Bluffs. Call 508-693-8877 or visit mvdragonfly.com.
Rick Bausman and the Drum Workshop are bringing the beat to a whole new level. Called BeatFeat the idea is as simple and perfect as a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, two great things finally coming together as one. Participants play the drums while working out on a stationary spinning bike.
Seeing is believing, so check out the video at drum-workshop.org. Then go join the band.
Classes take place on Wednesdays at 11 a.m. and Thursdays at 7 p.m. at the newly established Om of Motion on State Road in West Tisbury.
Restaurant Week Serves It Up
There’s a rumbling taking place on the Island this week but it’s not on the ferries or streets, per se, as the summer throngs head this way. This rumble echoes forth from deep inside us all, a literal hunger for food and drink of the finest kind. And this hunger is about to be filled.
