First Look Inside Yayoi Kusama's Psychedelic 'Infinity Room' At Boston's ICA
This morning, I got a first look inside Yayoi Kusama’s “Love Is Calling,” the 90-year-old Japanese artist’s psychedelic ‘Infinity Room’…
New Murals On Beverly’s Cabot Theatre Aim To Illuminate All The Creativity Going On Inside
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative,…
Photos: Opening Night Of Crossing Water Festival In Salem And Beverly
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative,…
Mural At Salem's It's Raining Pets
Mural at It’s Raining Pets, a dog grooming business in Salem, Massachusetts, Sept. 7, 2019. If this is the kind…
Dazzling Masks Of Contemporary Mexican Festivals Seen In Phyllis Galembo’s Photos
Since the mid 1980s, New York photographer Phyllis Galembo has documented the masquerade traditions of festivals and carnivals in Africa…
Finding Love And Grief At Stephen Huneck's Dog Chapel
In front of the Dog Chapel is a sign reading: “Welcome/All Creeds/All Breeds/No Dogmas/Allowed.” A row of four sculptures of…
First Look At Three New Somerville Murals
“I wanted to share this idea of home, with the community, with the city of Somerville,” Imagine (Sneha Shrestha), a…
'Be Safe Don't Die!' Temporary DIY Carnival Rides Reappear At MIT’s East Campus
This week students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s East Campus residence hall have been constructing DIY carnival rides. A plywood…
Wadsworth Jarrell, AfriCOBRA And Creating ‘Art That African People Can Relate To’
“African people are the forerunners, innovators, creators, the hip. African people are my motivation,” Wadsworth Jarrell, one of the founders…
As Boston Continues To Exclude Hip Hop, ‘Boston Answering’ Aims To ‘Uplift Some Of The City’s Finest Local Artists’
“A cultural response manifested into a show” is how this Saturday’s “Boston Answering” show at the Strand Theatre in Boston…
Somerville PorchFest: Wonderland’s Totally Biased Guide To This Saturday's Music Fest
Somerville’s annual PorchFest is part hootenanny, part a giant open studios for bands. More than 200 bands acts are scheduled…
Unicorns! Gorgons! Manticores! In Metropolitan Chorale's Collaboration With Puppet Showplace Theater
Unicorns, gorgons and other fantastical creatures abound in the Metropolitan Chorale’s performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Unicorn, The Gorgon…
Transgender Soul Music Pioneer Jackie Shane Recorded Her Biggest Hit In 1960s Boston
Jackie Shane—the electrifying soul singer, black cult heroine, and transgender pioneer—died this week in Nashville at age 78. “Any Other…
The Earth Expedition Of Sun Ra, Jazz Visionary And Afrofuturist Pioneer
“There’s no limit to the things that you can do,” go the lyrics to jazz visionary Sun Ra’s “Space Is…
Winners Of 2018 Boston Music Awards
Below are the winners of the 2018 Boston Music Awards, which were announced at Boston’s House of Blues on Dec.…
Dazzling Masks Of Contemporary Mexican Festivals Seen In Phyllis Galembo’s Photos
Since the mid 1980s, New York photographer Phyllis Galembo has documented the masquerade traditions of festivals and carnivals in Africa…
Illustrator And Disney Artist Kay Nielsen's Glittering Fantasies And Difficult Life
The most famous creation of Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), one of the outstanding illustrators at the dawn of the 20th century,…
‘Becoming Dr. Seuss’ Is A Drafting-Table-Side-Seat At The Creation Of Children’s Classics
I binge read Brian Jay Jones’s biography “Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination” (Dutton).…
‘Walks To The Paradise Garden’: A Long Lost Story Of Pilgrimages To Folk Artists And Visionary Worlds
“Walks to the Paradise Garden: A Lowdown Southern Odyssey” by Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley and Guy Mendes “provides one last…
In Vermont Cartoonist James Sturm’s ‘Off Season,’ Things Are Only Getting Worse
“Off Season” (Drawn and Quarterly) starts off depressing and heads toward despair. In this new graphic novel from Vermont cartoonist…
Patricia Marx And Roz Chast's 'Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?'
Patricia Marx and Roz Chast have a delicious premise for their slim illustrated humor/advice book “Why Don’t You Write My…
Photos: Bread And Puppet's 'Diagonal Life Circus' in Cambridge
Bread and Puppet Theater brought their “Diagonal Life Circus” to Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon, as the culminating performance of Cambridge…
Photos: Bread and Puppet Theater's 'Diagonal Life Circus'
Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Diagonal Life Circus” at its home base in Glover, Vermont, at 3 p.m. each…
Double Edge Theatre Reimagines ‘Baron Munchausen’ As A Visionary Adventure
“Idiots!” and “Balderdash!” Baron Munchausen hollers, interrupting the vaudevillians’ truncated staging of Homer’s “Odyssey” (Ulysses drowns). Clad in a red…
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life’ Addresses Politics, Migration, Global Warming
Three large brown papier-mâché puppets arrive on the blue curtained stage early on in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life:…
Unicorns! Gorgons! Manticores! In Metropolitan Chorale's Collaboration With Puppet Showplace Theater
Unicorns, gorgons and other fantastical creatures abound in the Metropolitan Chorale’s performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Unicorn, The Gorgon…
Leonora Carrington’s Magic Realist Paintings Come Alive at Double Edge Theatre
“Leonora & Alejandro: La Maga y el Maestro”—presented by Double Edge Theatre at their Farm Center in Ashfield from April…
Protesters Demand MIT President Resign Over Role In Epstein Scandal
“Reif, you can’t hide! We demand that you resign!” hundreds of protesters chanted at an “MIT Rally Against Jeffrey Epstein”…
At Protest Over Canceled Cambridge Carnival, Organizers Call For Scaled-Back Festival In Late September
“Preserve our culture!” shouted Cambridge Carnival supporters as they marched down Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge’s Central Square this evening. “Keep…
Artist Cages Duckling Statues In Boston Public Garden To Protest Abuse Of Immigrants
Well before dawn last Friday morning, Karyn Alzayer snuck a group of miniature cages into Boston’s Public Garden via “a…
El Paso And Dayton Victims Remembered During Hiroshima Bombing Vigil
More than 60 people gathered in Watertown Square last night for a vigil remembering the 74th anniversary of the United…
Tenants Protest After United Properties Hikes Rents Nearly 50 Percent In Malden
“Sometimes it feels inevitable, but it’s not inevitable,” Steve Meacham, an organizer for the housing advocacy group City Life/Vida Urbana,…
'Her Flag' Women’s Suffrage Celebration In Boston
On Thursday, Marilyn Artus brought her national “Her Flag” women’s suffrage centenary celebration to Boston. To mark the hundredth anniversary…
Photos: Nick Cave's 'Joy Parade' In Boston
Artist Nick Cave’s “Joy Parade” today escorted the Chicago artist’s inflatable sculptures (pictured above) from the Boston Center for the…
Protesters Demand MIT President Resign Over Role In Epstein Scandal
“Reif, you can’t hide! We demand that you resign!” hundreds of protesters chanted at an “MIT Rally Against Jeffrey Epstein”…
Photos: Sunset, Storytelling And Stargazing In Malden
Sunset, Storytelling and Stargazing was held atop Waitt’s Mount in Malden, Massachusetts, tonight. It was hosted by Malden Reads: One…
Photos: Opening Night Of Crossing Water Festival In Salem And Beverly
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative,…
At Protest Over Canceled Cambridge Carnival, Organizers Call For Scaled-Back Festival In Late September
“Preserve our culture!” shouted Cambridge Carnival supporters as they marched down Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge’s Central Square this evening. “Keep…
Photos: Bread And Puppet's 'Diagonal Life Circus' in Cambridge
Bread and Puppet Theater brought their “Diagonal Life Circus” to Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon, as the culminating performance of Cambridge…
Photos: Nick Cave's 'Joy Parade' In Boston
Artist Nick Cave’s “Joy Parade” today escorted the Chicago artist’s inflatable sculptures (pictured above) from the Boston Center for the…
Photos: Sunset, Storytelling And Stargazing In Malden
Sunset, Storytelling and Stargazing was held atop Waitt’s Mount in Malden, Massachusetts, tonight. It was hosted by Malden Reads: One…
Photos: Opening Night Of Crossing Water Festival In Salem And Beverly
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative,…
Dazzling Masks Of Contemporary Mexican Festivals Seen In Phyllis Galembo’s Photos
Since the mid 1980s, New York photographer Phyllis Galembo has documented the masquerade traditions of festivals and carnivals in Africa…
Parade With Us, Nick Cave And Now+There 9/14
What brings you JOY? Seeking performers: Join us, Wonderland Spectacle Company, in artist Nick Cave’s JOY parade on Saturday, Sept.…
At Protest Over Canceled Cambridge Carnival, Organizers Call For Scaled-Back Festival In Late September
“Preserve our culture!” shouted Cambridge Carnival supporters as they marched down Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge’s Central Square this evening. “Keep…
New Murals On Beverly’s Cabot Theatre Aim To Illuminate All The Creativity Going On Inside
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative,…
Mural At Salem's It's Raining Pets
Mural at It’s Raining Pets, a dog grooming business in Salem, Massachusetts, Sept. 7, 2019. If this is the kind…
First Look At Three New Somerville Murals
“I wanted to share this idea of home, with the community, with the city of Somerville,” Imagine (Sneha Shrestha), a…
Artist Cages Duckling Statues In Boston Public Garden To Protest Abuse Of Immigrants
Well before dawn last Friday morning, Karyn Alzayer snuck a group of miniature cages into Boston’s Public Garden via “a…
Steve Locke Abandons Planned Boston Slavery Memorial After NAACP Criticism
Boston artist Steve Locke says he is abandoning his proposed “Auction Block Memorial” for Boston’s Faneuil Hall due to criticism…
First Look At Rob 'ProBlak' Gibbs’ New Roxbury Mural 'Breathe Life 3'
“I grew up on Lenox Street, 69 B Lennox St., born and raised,” Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs tells me. “I was…
Photos: Herring Migrating Upstream In Medford
The Mystic River Watershed Association held a River Herring Open House on May 22, inviting visitors to watch herring swimming…
Woodpecker
Photo copyright 2019 Greg Cook. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please…
The 5-Year-Old’s Guide To ‘Space’ At Boston’s Museum Of Science
Twice this fall, the 5-Year-Old visited “Space: An Out-of-Gravity Experience,” which is on view at Boston’s Museum of Science through Jan.…
The Dazzling ‘Rockefeller Beetles’ Debut At Harvard’s Natural History Museum
The earth is home to 450,000 species of beetles, Brian Farrell, the Harvard University professor and curator of entomology, told…
Fall Bike Ride: Through Lynn Marshes Via The Northern Strand Community Trail
Between Lincoln Avenue and Summer Street in Lynn, there is a dirt stretch of the “Bike to the Sea” Northern…
Dogwood Seedling From Starting Over Festival Sprouts
At the Starting Over Festival that I helped organize in Somerville on April 22, we gave out seedlings. A month…