In a darkened gallery, black-painted model buildings glow from within. Looking in the tiny windows of 18 little buildings—Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, the United Nations skyscraper in New York,…Continue Reading →
The exhibition “Cosmic Threads,” featuring Boston artists Funlola Coker and Maria Molteni and North Berwick, Maine, artist Erin Genia at McCoy Art Gallery at Merrimack College, North Andover, “reimagines humanity’s…Continue Reading →
By a lucky coincidence, we recently bumped into Keith Knight, the “K Chronicles” cartoonist and creator of Hulu’s “Woke,” at Salem State University’s gallery. The Malden-Massachusetts-native, who now lives in…Continue Reading →
Visiting our friends at Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont, buried under the snow and fringed with the icicles of mid-winter, with temperatures below zero, it can look like…Continue Reading →
Saddened to hear that Isaiah Zagar—creator of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, one of the great visionary art spaces of the world, as well as the creator of many mosaic murals across…Continue Reading →
“Black Futures: How to See in Total Darkness 2.0” at Salem State University’s Winfisky Gallery in Salem, Massachusetts, from Jan. 20 to Feb. 20, 2026, grew out of a 2023 exhibition…Continue Reading →
With temperatures hovering around zero, we went to see Bread and Puppet Theater perform “Life and Death Precision Dances with Happiness Obligation Prologue” on Feb. 8, 2026, the last performance…Continue Reading →
Janet Echelman is probably the most successful living artist affiliated with Greater Boston. She and her team at Studio Echelman, based in Brookline, have advanced fiber art into the arena…Continue Reading →
Here are most of the books I read (finished and unfinished) during 2025 in roughly the order I read them. Thanks to the Malden and Boston public libraries for free…Continue Reading →
The late 1960s drawings of dazzling weirdo psychedelic Chicago artist Karl Wirsum create pop icons. His neon electric free-association visionary style is astoundingly unique, bringing to mind “Space Invaders” video…Continue Reading →