Foam Party - Le Sueur -- 10 a.m. Thursday, July 24, Le Sueur Public Library, 118 Ferry St. Cool off in the most epic way ...

Those paintings, like Cole’s “View in the White Mountains,” christened him as the father of the Hudson River School, the first language of American art for a country then searching for its identity.

Bypassing the endless figuration-versus-abstraction debate, a trend in blurred painting techniques has emerged. In these works, artists make borders hard to define and render figures as moving, fluid, ...