For more than 150 years, granite has shaped life in Barre. Generations of central Vermonters have quarried, cut and carved the stone.

Beloved in Finland, Helene Schjerfbeck is just becoming hot in Manhattan, where a show of paintings at the Met Museum is likely to leave you awe-struck.

Joanne Meurer, a New York City-based painter and entrepreneur, is one of those artists who doesn’t over-analyze what they do.