Danza Organica rehearses “Melaza” in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Jan.. 10, 2018. (Greg Cook)“Rainbow Collapse” at the Boston Center for the Arts, Jan.19, 2018. (Greg Cook)Massachusetts State Rep. Mike Connolly speaks at the Cambridge/Boston Women’s March at Cambridge Common, Jan. 20, 2018. (Greg Cook)The Cascade in the Middlesex Fells, Melrose, Jan. 21, 2018. (Greg Cook)Hollywood actor Mila Kunis appears in Harvard’s Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year Parade down Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Jan. 25, 2018. (Greg Cook)Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration at Malden High School, Feb. 10, 2018. (Greg Cook)The “Mirror Maze” at the Boston Museum of Science, Feb. 10, 2018. (Greg Cook)Jeff Prystowsky (left) plays guitar and Ben Knox sings at the keyboard during The Low Anthem’s rehearsal at Providence’s Columbus Theatre, Feb. 17, 2018. (Greg Cook)Musician performing in Downtown Crossing MBTA Station, Feb. 22, 2018. (Greg Cook)The memorial for poet Gerrit Lansing at Gloucester’s Hammond Castle, Feb. 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)Inside Martin Creed’s 2004 “Work No. 329” in the exhibition “PlayTime” at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Feb. 26, 2018. (Greg Cook)Window of AS220 on Empire Street, Providence, Feb. 26, 2018. (Greg Cook)“No real guns! Anywhare!” “Talk with words, don’t buy guns.” Elementary students from Cambridgeport School protest guns on Broadway in Cambridge, March 15, 2018. (Greg Cook)Tenneh Silah (left) and Damon Singletary perform in Front Porch Arts Collective’s “A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes” at Cambridge’s Central Square Theater, March 19, 2018. (Greg Cook)The front of the March For Our Lives: Boston, March 24, 2018. (Greg Cook)Poet U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo performs at the opening reception for “SayHerName: Watch Us WERK” at Lesley University College of Art and Design’s VanDernoot Gallery in Cambridge, March 29, 2018. (Greg Cook)The Big Apple Circus’ high-wire act featuring couple Nik and Erendira Wallenda in Somerville, April 11, 2018. (Greg Cook)Opening reception for “Brutal Destruction” exhibition at Pinkcomma gallery in Boston, April 12, 2018. (Greg Cook)Bread and Puppet Theater’s “The Basic Bye-bye Show” at Spontaneous Celebrations in Boston, April 21, 2018. (Greg Cook)Eddy Toussaint Tontongi, a Haitian immigrant, read his poem responding to Donald Trump’s insults of his homeland at the Starting Over Festival, organized by Greg Cook and the Somerville Arts Council, April 22, 2018. (Greg Cook)Ruckus Dance rehearses “Perpetual Loneliness” at the Dance Complex, Cambridge, April 26, 2018. (Greg Cook)Stage Ensemble Theater Unit (SETU) rehearses Girish Karnad’s 1995 play “The Fire and the Rain” at Belmont Town Hall, April 26, 2018. (Greg Cook)Cedric Douglas (right) handing out roses to remember more than 1,000 black people killed by police in the United States during the past five years. April 27, 2018. (Greg Cook)Maypole dance at the Sheepshearing Festival at Gore Place, Waltham, April 28, 2018. (Greg Cook)Emma Levitt (left) and Samuel Potrykus at the offices of the Boston Compass at Dorchester Art Project in Boston, May 2, 2018. (Greg Cook)Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys perform at Kelly Davidson’s “Rock Parents” exhibition at Once, Somerville, May 6, 2018. (Greg Cook)Arts journalism forum at Outpost 186 in Cambridge, May 7, 2018. (Greg Cook)Nicole Duennebier in her studio in Malden, May 12, 2018. (Greg Cook)Remembering lost loved ones at the 22nd annual anti-gun violence Mother’s Day Walk For Peace In Dorchester, Boston, May 13, 2018. (Greg Cook)Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band performs at Somerville’s Quincy Street Open Space as part of the annual PorchFest, May 13, 2018. (Greg Cook)Nova One performs on the main stage of AS220’s Empire Street building, at the reception after the “All Access” campaign launch event, May 16, 2018. (Greg Cook)Cliff Notez performs at Hojoko at the Verb Hotel, May 18, 2018. (Greg Cook)Jongs (Freestyle) lion dance demonstration at USDLDF Dragon and Lion Dance National Championships at Quincy High School Gymnasium, May 27, 2018. (Greg Cook)Mark Alston-Follansbee painting his art car in the driveway of his Waltham home, May 28, 2018. (Greg Cook)The Big Gay Dance Party in Union Square, Somerville, June 2, 2018. (Greg Cook)Iris Lapaix (left) and Magnolia Monroe plant sunflowers in front of the Grove Hall Public Library for Ekua Holmes’s “The Roxbury Sunflowers Project,” June 8, 2018. (Greg Cook)School of Honk plays at Arlington Porchfest, June 9, 2018. (Greg Cook)The Cardboard Canoe Races at at Wright’s Pond in Medford, June 10, 2018. (Greg Cook)Maria Molteni paints her “Storming the Court” mural in Salem, June 13, 2018. (Greg Cook)Fox Festival Parade in Arlington, June 16, 2018. (Greg Cook)Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band plays at the “Save EMF” rally in Harvard Square, Cambridge, June 16, 2018. (Greg Cook)“State House action to protect immigrant families in Massachusetts” at Massachusetts State House, Boston, June 20, 2018. (Greg Cook)Bread And Puppet Theater’s “Out-of-Joint Hamlet” performed in Glover, Vermont, June 22, 2018. (Greg Cook)Diana Thater’s 2008 “Untitled Videowall (Butterflies)” (foreground) and her 1999 installation “Delphine” at the new ICA Watershed, June 26, 2018 (Greg Cook)Karl Stevens in his Boston studio, June 27, 2018. (Greg Cook)Reception for “We Wanted a Revolution: Radical Black Women 1965-85” at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, June 28, 2018. (Greg Cook)“Together and Free: Rally Against Family Separation” at Boston City Hall, June 30, 2018. (Greg Cook)Carrying the Mother of Grace statue up Washington Street in Gloucester during Sunday’s St. Peter’s Fiesta procession, July 1, 2018. (Greg Cook)Opening reception for “Alterations” at Dorchester Art Project, Boston, July 21, 2018. (Greg Cook)Liz Glynn’s “Open House” on Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue Mall, July 27, 2018. (Greg Cook)“American Steel,” constructed entirely of forged and welded nails by Brunswick, Maine, sculptor John Bisbee, at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland, July 30, 2018. (Greg Cook)Dahlia Ipcar’s “Opossum Family,” 1968, from the late artist’s exhibition “Blue Moons & Menageries” at Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, August 2018. (Greg Cook)“Mrs. Noah” by the late Maine sculptor Bernard Langlais at Shepard’s Farm Family Preserve, Norway, Maine, Aug. 10, 2018. (Greg Cook)Abigail Cook reads at the 2018 Boston Poetry Marathon at Outpost 186, Cambridge, Aug. 12, 2018. (Greg Cook)African American Master Artists In Residence Program artists and supporters meet in the fourth-floor gallery at the studios at 76 Atherton St., Boston, Aug. 12, 2018. (Greg Cook)Bread and Puppet Theater rehearses its “Grasshopper Rebellion Circus,” Glover, Vermont, Aug. 19, 2018. (Greg Cook)David Zayas paints his mural at 44 Broadway, Somerville, Aug. 27, 2018. (Greg Cook)David Owen Beyers paints a mural at Dorchester Art Project, Boston, Aug. 28, 2018. (Greg Cook)Constructing the temporary bridge spanning the courtyard of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s East Campus residence hall, Cambridge, Aug. 28, 2018. (Greg Cook)Climate, Jobs, Immigrant Rights & Justice rally at East Boston Memorial Park, Sept. 8, 2018. (Greg Cook)Inside Yayoi Kusama’s “Where the Lights in My Heart Go,” an infinity mirror room, 2016, at Decordova, Sept. 15, 2018. (Greg Cook)Poohsticks bridge display in “Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Sept. 18, 2018. (Greg Cook)Oompa performs at Somerville’s Evolution of Hip Hop Festival in Union Square, Sept. 29, 2018. (Greg Cook)“Tell Jeff Flake to Reject Kavanaugh” rally on the steps of Boston City Hall, Oct. 1, 2018. (Greg Cook)Detroit Party Marching Band in the Honk Parade, Oct. 7, 2018. (Greg Cook)At the pond during Double Edge Theatre’s “Leonora’s World,” Ashfield, Mass., Oct. 19, 2018. (Greg Cook)Lena McCarthy paints her mural at Pleasant and Green streets in Cambridge on Oc. 26, 2018, as part of the Central Square Mural Project organized by Cambridge Arts (where I work) and the Central Square Business Association. The project brought seven new murals to the neighborhood in 2018. (Greg Cook/Cambridge Arts)Tory Bullock presents “The Gentrification Game” at a former bank in Boston’s Uphams Corner neighborhood on Oct. 26, 2018. “The Gentrification Game,” he says, “will let you feel what gentrification feels like to people who actually live in that community.” (Greg Cook)William Forsythe’s “The Fact of Matter,” 2009, at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Oct. 30, 2018. (Greg Cook)Halloween: Somerville, 32 Springfield St., Sept. 29, 2018. (Greg Cook)Amrutha Ananth dances classical Bharatanatyam during the Dawali celebration at the Gallery, Malden, Nov. 1, 2018. (Greg Cook)Members of the African American Master Artists In Residence Program and friends gather at a celebration of founder Dana Chandler (seated in black shirt) at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury, Nov. 3, 2018. (Greg Cook)“Rally To Protect Mueller & Rosenstein – You Can’t Fire The Truth” on Boston Common, Nov. 8, 2018. (Greg Cook)“Medicine Wheel” AIDS vigil at Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama, Nov. 30, 2018. (Greg Cook)Christmas decorations at house at Arthur Street, Danvers, Dec. 4, 2018. (Greg Cook)
