Ryan Cole is a reporting fellow at ARLnow and an Arlington native. He’s a 2022 Yorktown High School graduate and a 2026 graduate of Northwestern University, where he studied journalism and covered sports for campus publications.
A new resident-created art exhibit at a Ballston senior living community is trying to test the limits of what art really is.
Titled “Art of the Absurd: But is it Art?”, the exhibition at The Jefferson (900 N. Taylor Street) was inspired by a banana taped to a wall that sold for $6.2 million at a contemporary art auction in November.
