Repainting Mark Alston-Follansbee’s Art Car
Last weekend, we helped Mark Alston-Follansbee in the annual repainting the exterior of his Toyota Camry. Over the years, his…
Photos: Southern Journey: Visionary Art, Tourist Traps, Critters
I’m on a camping road trip to the American South to research visionary art environments and tourist traps, waterfalls and…
MFA Hires Former Attorney General To Investigate Complaints That Students Faced Racist Treatment
Hoping that “an investigation by an external party could provide greater objectivity and clarity,” Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has…
‘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…
Launching Otto Piene's 'Sky Art' inflatable sculpture 'Paris Star'
A small crowd gathered in the field across from the Fitchburg Art Museum this afternoon to launch Otto Piene’s “Sky Art”…
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…
Craig Bailey’s ‘Faces of AIDS’ Photographs Of ‘My Friends That I Lost ’
In the 1990s, when Boston photographer Craig Bailey began taking the portraits that would become “The Faces of AIDS”—10 black…
Everything To See This Summer: Scissors • Murals • Renoir • Woodstock • Corpses • Fairy Tales • Winslow Homer
Here is Wonderland’s guide to the best museum exhibitions to see around New England this summer…. If this is the…
A Teeny Tiny Bruins V. Blues Hockey Championship At Legoland Somerville
The Legoland Discovery Center in Somerville is routing on the Boston Bruins in their Stanley Cup pro hockey championship run…
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.…
‘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…
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’: A Walking Tour Of The Novel’s Cambridge Settings
Margaret Atwood was living in West Berlin in 1984, the city still divided by the Berlin Wall, when she began…
How Tolkien Envisioned ‘The Hobbit’ And ‘Lord Of The Rings’
In the fall of 1936, as the first edition of “The Hobbit” was in production, its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, gave…
‘Johnny Boo Is King!’ In New Kids Graphic Novel From (Former) Vermont Cartoonist Laureate James Kochalka
“Johnny Boo Is King!,” the new graphic novel for kids from James Kockalka, the former Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, begins…
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…
Is Harvard’s American Repertory Theater Leaving Cambridge?
A $100 million donation “will enable Harvard to imagine a 21st-century research and performance center in Allston,” the Cambridge university…
‘Ajijaak On Turtle Island,’ Heather Henson’s Puppet Spectacle With Indigenous Roots
“Ajijaak on Turtle Island”—by Heather Henson (daughter of Muppets creator Jim Henson) and IBEX Puppetry—is an environmental fable, Henson says,…
Sandglass Theater’s Refugee Stories: ‘Is It Our Responsibility To Help Everyone?’
Woven through “Babylon: Journeys of Refugees” by Sandglass Theater is a version of the American debate about immigrants and migrants…
Photos: 'Stop The Abortion Ban' Rally At Massachusetts State House
“Keep abortion safe and legal” people chanted at a “Stop The Abortion Ban” rally at the Massachusetts State House in…
A Cartoon White House Briefing Room For Speaking Your Mind
At the end of Amherst College’s Eli Marsh Gallery in Fayerweather Hall is Macon Reed’s recreation of the White House…
Black Panthers 1968: Selections From A Major Photo Archive in San Francisco
“A lot of people tried to talk us out of it,” Pirkle Jones told The New York Times in December…
How ‘Pigeon’ And ‘Elephant & Piggie’ Author Mo Willems Protested In 2018
Mo Willems has won Caldecott Honors three times for his picture books for children—beginning with 2003’s “Don’t Let the Pigeon…
Vigil for Victims of New Zealand Mosque Attacks: ‘That Could Have Been Me’
“That could have been me. That could have been my brother. That could have been my own family,” Farida Moustafa…
Youth Climate Strike: 'Climate Now, School Later'
“Hey, hey, ho, ho! Climate change has got to go,” chanted hundreds of people at the Youth Climate Strike at…
Photos: Southern Journey: Visionary Art, Tourist Traps, Critters
I’m on a camping road trip to the American South to research visionary art environments and tourist traps, waterfalls and…
Photos: Fox Festival Parade in Arlington
My partner Kari Percival and I, of Wonderland Spectacle Co, were delighted to help lead the Fox Festival Parade held…
Photos: Lantern Walk at Malden's Fellsmere Pond
Lantern Walk at Fellsmere Pond, Malden, June 1, 2019. Photos copyright 2019 Greg Cook. If this is the kind of…
Photos: Mermaid Promenade at Cambridge Arts River Festival
The Mermaid Promenade danced down Massachusetts Avenue and Sidney Street during Cambridge Arts’ 40th annual River Festival in Central Square…
Celebrating Liverpool's Champions League Victory In Cambridge
Fans dressed in the red of the Liverpool, UK, soccer team crowded into the Phoenix Landing in Cambridge yesterday to…
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…
ArtBeat Somerville: Wonderland’s Totally Biased Guide To This Weekend's Festival
The theme of this Saturday’s ArtBeat festival from the our friends at the Somerville Arts Council is “Consumed,” inviting you…
Photos: Fox Festival Parade in Arlington
My partner Kari Percival and I, of Wonderland Spectacle Co, were delighted to help lead the Fox Festival Parade held…
Photos: Lantern Walk at Malden's Fellsmere Pond
Lantern Walk at Fellsmere Pond, Malden, June 1, 2019. Photos copyright 2019 Greg Cook. If this is the kind of…
Photos: Mermaid Promenade at Cambridge Arts River Festival
The Mermaid Promenade danced down Massachusetts Avenue and Sidney Street during Cambridge Arts’ 40th annual River Festival in Central Square…
Photos: Roman Catholic Easter Pageant Reenacts Jesus’ Execution
Roman Catholics in Boston marked Good Friday today, the prelude to Easter, with a live Stations of the Cross, or…
Photos: Celebrating Holi, The Hindu Festival Of Colors, At Boston University
Holi is “the Hindu Festival of Colors which celebrates the arrival of Spring,” the Boston University Hindu Student Council writes.…
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…
First Look At The New Mural Going Up On Boston’s Greenway
On Saturday, Dutch artist Stefan Thelen—known by his anti-superhero identity Super A—began painting a mural depicting a barn swallow crashing…
This New Crosswalk Is An Optical Illusion To (Hopefully) Slow Cars
The question was how to slow traffic around Medford’s Brooks Elementary School to make it safer for students. Last year,…
Fox, Bear And Deer Mural Is Part Of The Public Art Sprouting In Arlington
Families of fox and bears and deer meander around the brick exterior of Arlington’s Fox Library in Eileen de Rosas’s…
Monumental Hugging Arms Selected As Memorial To MLK On Boston Common
“The Embrace”—a pair of monumental hugging arms—has been selected to become a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta…
Pioneering Video And Performance Artist Joan Jonas Draws At The Gardner
During Joan Jonas’s 2017 residency at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the pioneering 82-year-old video and performance artist found herself…
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…