Ife Franklin’s ‘Cabin In The Sky’: ‘Going To The Other-Other Side’
“Look up,” announced the programs for “Cabin In The Sky” by Boston artist Ife Franklin, “an immersive exploration of heritage,…
Juliette Collet’s ‘Bobbie Cadet In The Court Of The Ladybugs’
“I think degradation only works on people with self-respect,” professes Bobbie Cadet while in the clutches of an evil creep.…
Acclaimed Writer Ocean Vuong Takes On Photography In Hartford Homecoming Exhibit
By James Cook Ocean Vuong grew up only a few blocks from The Wadsworth in Hartford, but he never went inside back then. The…
Goodbye, Psychedelic Pop Star Peter Max
Peter Max, who rocketed to fame as one of the iconic psychedelic artists of the late ’60s, died at age…
‘Sensory-Friendly’ Calmer Con Comics Convention 9/12
Calmer Con Boston, a “sensory-friendly” comic and pop culture convention, will be at the Meadowbrook School, 10 Farm Road, Weston, this Saturday, Sept. 12,…
Niki De Saint Phalle At Atlanta Botanical Garden
Forty sculptures by French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle are featured in “Niki in the Garden” at the Atlanta Botanical…
Kari Percival’s ‘Fall Day, All Day’: A Celebration Of Toddlers’ First Autumns
“Fall is a great time to go outdoors and see squirrels running around gathering nuts, hear the bluejays and crows…
Yayoi Kusama, Creator Of ‘Infinity Rooms,’ Dies At 97
Yayoi Kusama, creator of sensational mirrored, hallucination-like, walk-in installations that she called “Infinity Rooms,” died Aug. 14 in a Tokyo…
David ‘Tuyo’ Schmitt’s Folksy Prints
David Schmitt, the Barcelona-based artist who works under the name Tuyo, draws on the basic shapes of folk art and…
Ife Franklin’s ‘Cabin In The Sky’: ‘Going To The Other-Other Side’
“Look up,” announced the programs for “Cabin In The Sky” by Boston artist Ife Franklin, “an immersive exploration of heritage,…
In Puppet ‘Romeo & Zooliet,’ Animals Perform Shakespeare
In St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’s puppet “Romeo & Zooliet,” zoo animals present Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” but in this case,…
Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race: Part Bicycle, Park Raft, Part Art, Part Comedy
This year’s Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race–featuring “human powered sculptures racing for glory through stone, mud and water”–is Saturday, Sept. 19,…
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Upside Down World Circus’ Coming To Cambridge And Lawrence 9/6&7
Bread & Puppet Theater’s “Upside Down World Circus” is a circus of stilters and dancing puppet horses and clowning puppet…
String And Shadow’s ‘Night At The Grand Opera’
“A single night at the Grand Royal Opera House, where industrialists, revolutionaries, the players of the opera house and the…
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Upside Down World Resurrection Pageant’
“Through all the world below / God is seen all around / Search hills and valleys / Through there she’s…
Niki De Saint Phalle At Atlanta Botanical Garden
Forty sculptures by French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle are featured in “Niki in the Garden” at the Atlanta Botanical…
‘Worldbuilders’: A Generational Change In Disney Worlds
“Oh my god, this is unbelievable. … I can’t believe this. It’s real. This is Arendelle,” “Frozen” writer and director…
‘L.V. Hull: Love Is a Sensation’
“Do not try to understand me, just love me,” said L.V. Hull (1942–2008). In small town Kosciusko, Mississippi, the Black,…
‘Baby Animals Festival’ At Hancock Shaker Village
On a recent sunny Saturday morning, Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, launched one of the great rites of spring…
Goodbye, Pearl Fryar, Topiary Gardener
In the early 1980s, Pearl Fryar began transforming his home in Bishopville, South Carolina, into a fantastic topiary garden, often…
Goodbye to Isaiah Zagar, Creator Of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens
Saddened to hear that Isaiah Zagar—creator of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, one of the great visionary art spaces of the world,…
Partial Solar Eclipse
Partial solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2028. (Greg Cook photo) If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures,…
Malden River: After The Downpour
A double rainbow appeared as the downpour subsided and the sun broke through the angry gray clouds on the evening…
Malden River: Birds Have Found An Oasis
Where the Malden River emerges from under Malden’s downtown, birds have found a small oasis hidden behind a wall of…
Freeing The Ware River
What does it mean to remove a dam that’s constrained a river for more than a century? What does it…
Malden River: To Try To Draw The Whole Thing
Convalescing just downstream of the Trash Trap on the Malden River. Near where the river begins, or at least where…
Herring Underwater At Mystic Lakes
Herring on their annual spring spawning run on June 12, 2026, just upstream of the Mystic Lakes Dam between Medford…
Juliette Collet’s ‘Bobbie Cadet In The Court Of The Ladybugs’
“I think degradation only works on people with self-respect,” professes Bobbie Cadet while in the clutches of an evil creep.…
Acclaimed Writer Ocean Vuong Takes On Photography In Hartford Homecoming Exhibit
By James Cook Ocean Vuong grew up only a few blocks from The Wadsworth in Hartford, but he never went inside back then. The…
‘Sensory-Friendly’ Calmer Con Comics Convention 9/12
Calmer Con Boston, a “sensory-friendly” comic and pop culture convention, will be at the Meadowbrook School, 10 Farm Road, Weston, this Saturday, Sept. 12,…
Kari Percival’s ‘Fall Day, All Day’: A Celebration Of Toddlers’ First Autumns
“Fall is a great time to go outdoors and see squirrels running around gathering nuts, hear the bluejays and crows…
How Dolly Parton Helped My Family Get Through Cancer
There are so many of you that I have to thank for helping me and my family successfully get through…
Ansis Puriņš: ‘I Missed Out On Saturday Morning Cartoons’
“I missed out on Saturday morning cartoons as a kid because I had to go to Latvian school,” artist Ansis…
Honk Festival Of Activist Street Bands
So inspring to see Brass Solidarity from Minneapolis leading the 2026 Honk Festival of Activist Street Bands parade from Somerville’s…
Hattie Grimm’s ‘Bird Puppet Parade’
“Just like the flock, our human bodies are designed to exist together. But we are out of practice,” observes Hattie…
Photos: St. Peter’s Fiesta In Gloucester
I’ve been documenting the St. Peter’s Fiesta in Gloucester for three decades now—but this time, the 99th year, as I’m recovering…
34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil And March
“Everyone we lost,” Nigel Griffith said, “..it is because of them we’re still here keeping up this fight.” He was…
Building ‘The Giant Puppet And People Making Mayhem Parade’
We recently bumped into Muffy Pendergast, who for some years now has organized “The Giant Puppet And People Making Mayhem…
A Visit To The 2025 Topsfield Fair
We paid a visit to the 207th Topsfield Fair, which runs from Oct. 3 to 13, 2025. Descended from an…
Honk Festival Of Activist Street Bands
So inspring to see Brass Solidarity from Minneapolis leading the 2026 Honk Festival of Activist Street Bands parade from Somerville’s…
How Dolly Parton Helped My Family Get Through Cancer
There are so many of you that I have to thank for helping me and my family successfully get through…
Photos: 19th Annual Honk Festival In Somerville
The 19th annual Honk Festival of Activist Street Bands took place in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, from Oct. 4 to…
Photos: 2024 Somerville Porchfest
Somerville Porchfest is part hootenanny, part a giant open studios for bands. Inspired by an event in Ithaca, New York,…
Boston Rock History And Vintage Views Of Local Streets In Charles Daniels’s Photos
Charles Daniels always had one or more cameras with him—when he was strolling local streets; when he was emcee at…
‘Road To Ruane’ Remembers Legendary Boston Rock Impresario And Wild Man
“Billy Ruane walked into the room and he said, ‘I need an extra room for my birthday party. I think…
‘Elephant Migration’ Sculptures Ask Us To See Wildlife As Family
“We do not share the earth with objects, but with other lives,” reads a sign at “The Great Elephant Migration”…
Heard Of Elephant Sculptures Coming To Boston
The Great Elephant Migration–100 sculptures of “Indian elephants are migrating across the US to inspire the human race to share…
Ansis Puriņš: ‘I Missed Out On Saturday Morning Cartoons’
“I missed out on Saturday morning cartoons as a kid because I had to go to Latvian school,” artist Ansis…
Christopher Frost’s Revolutionary War Insurgents
Under a 19-foot-tall granite obelisk at the center of Arlington’s Old Burying Ground, off Pleasant Street, are the bodies of…
Goodbye, Pearl Fryar, Topiary Gardener
In the early 1980s, Pearl Fryar began transforming his home in Bishopville, South Carolina, into a fantastic topiary garden, often…
Goodbye to Isaiah Zagar, Creator Of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens
Saddened to hear that Isaiah Zagar—creator of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, one of the great visionary art spaces of the world,…