Remembering Henry Tate

Tim Paul Weiner

The art/music/educational world lost a beautiful soul When Henry Augustine Tate passed away this summer. He taught Art History at Berklee, and was one of my favorite professors. Since I went to art school before I came to Berklee, but…

Henry Tate

Tom Baskett

Dear Editors: Nearly 30 years ago now, I saw “Art History 1” on my course schedule. Thank God it was a required course, else I might not have known… As a Black teenage boy welcomed to Berklee on a scholarship,…

Still in the Museum

Geoff Zanelli and Jennifer Jardine

We simply loved being in Henry Tate’s classroom. It didn’t only make you into someone with an elevated appreciation for sculpture, or paintings or poetry. It made you into a better person, and taught you the undeniable truth that we…

Tate Memory

Larry Bethune

Henry Tate and I talked so many times, and shared so much love for our Irish (his) and Scottish (mine) heritage and cultures. Often, deep into our musings, we were taken back to an artistic period for which we both…

The Black Rose – Pure Pulp

Teodros Kiros

For Henry Augustine Tate Over many years, Andreas developed the habit of navigating through cities on foot. In his early twenties, he covered the city of Frankfurt in one bitter cold, winter day. He traversed through the long Mediterranean coast…

The Classic Henry

Rekha Menon

Henry the classic gentleman / The distinguished gentleman / His simple presence felt in the hallways & classrooms / ...

The Revolution of What Didn’t Get Said

Steve Almond

In the fall of 2012, just a few weeks before the last presidential election, I flew from Billings, Montana to Denver. Shortly after takeoff, I heard the man behind me announce that he and his wife, who sat beside…

“Welcome to the 47th Annual Twins Convention”

Pamela Painter

That is printed on two signs on either side of the hotel’s bar and lounge. Bunches of paired balloons—two blue, two pink, two yellow—sway beside the arched doorway. No wonder the desk clerk at the Carson City Hilton handed me…

Ambush

Pamela Painter

My agent calls. He never calls. He says Gordon wants to see me tomorrow in his office. Gordon is the show’s writer, producer, creative genius. He never talks to us actors, hardly ever comes by the set. My agent says,…

Pamela Painter: Two Stories

Great fiction writers aim for precision. That means more than finding the right words, as important as that doubtlessly is.