Day: February 8, 2018

Cardboard Box Sled Derby at Castle In The Clouds, Moultonborough, New Hampshire. (Courtesy)

Art Greg CookFebruary 8, 2018 0

To Do Feb. 9 to 16: ‘PlayTime,’ Edward Gorey, Tet, Cardboard Sled Derby, Mardi Gras, Valentines, ‘Black Panther’

Friday, Feb. 9 10 a.m. Art: “Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55,” at Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Feb. 9 to June 3. 11: 30 a.m. Activism: Shaun King speaks at Northeastern University,…Continue Reading →

Melvin Edwards "Coco Vari Providence" (in foreground) 2017, welded steel and barbed wire. (Greg Cook)

Art Greg CookFebruary 8, 2018 0

Melvin Edwards’ Sculptures Of Barbed Wire, Chains And Old Tools Speak To Black Struggle And Success

There’s a fierceness to Melvin Edwards’ sculptures that isn’t always apparent in photographs. For more than five decades, the New York artist has turned chains and barbed wire, wrenches and…Continue Reading →