Art Watch: Start your holidays at the Brandywine River Museum

By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times The best place to start this holiday season is at The Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford. The whole museum is tastefully decorated for the holidays with fresh wreaths and a holiday train that runs throughout the museum on 2000 feet of track. Thursdays are particularly enchanting during the Winter, with the museum and café open until 9pm, one can experience...

Art Watch: Ivystone Studios holds its debut show

Also: area shows offer great holiday gift options By Lele Galer, Columnist, The Times For this last week in November, several holiday art shows present great gift giving ideas, and the new Ivystone Studios in Downingtown has it opening show this Friday. This weekend, November 25-26, 4-10pm, is the highly anticipated grand opening art show of Ivystone Studios, located at 138 Moore Road in Downingtown....

Art paths to converge at Chadds Ford gallery

Former state trooper, sibling join forces for ‘Blues Brothers’ show By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times “Winter Magic,” a watercolor by Glenn Blue, will be featured at the Chadds Ford Gallery starting Friday. For years, State Trooper Glenn E. Blue routinely patrolled communities throughout Chester County, an assignment that periodically brought him face-to-face with hardened...