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Firelei Báez installation at ICA Watershed, Boston, July 23, 2021. (©Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookAugust 27, 2021 0

Firelei Báez Imagines The Ruins Of Haiti’s Sans-Souci Palace At The Bottom Of Boston Harbor

“We think of history as human because our experience of time is very much predicated by memory, but the world around us has longer history,” says Firelei Báez, a New…Continue Reading →

Gallery with enlargement of Jay Lynch’s cover for “Arcade No. 5,” 1976. In “Chicago Comics” at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, July 3, 2021. (©Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookAugust 27, 2021 0

‘Chicago Comics’ Showcases Windy City Comics From The Past Six Decades

“Chicago Comics: 1960s to Now” at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art from June 19 to Oct. 3, 2021, is intended as “a celebration of Chicago’s pivotal role as a national…Continue Reading →

MICE (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) at Lesley University, Oct. 19, 2019. (Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookAugust 26, 2021 0

MICE Comics Expo Highlights Massachusetts Creators

Pictured above: MICE Comics Expo in the Before Times. (©Greg Cook 2019) After MICE (the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) was cancelled last year to stem the spread of covid, the…Continue Reading →

From Jef Czekaj's “Little Ghoul Goes to School." (Balzer + Bray)
Art Greg CookAugust 23, 2021 0

Going Back To School With Jef Czekaj’s ‘Little Ghoul’

Jef Czekaj”s latest humorous picture book for kids, “Little Ghoul Goes to School” (Balzer + Bray), conjures a school anxiety dream. “It’s a little monster, a Little Ghoul, that is…Continue Reading →

2021 candidates for Boston mayor (from left): John Barros, Andrea Campbell, Annissa Essaibi George, Kim Janey, Michelle Wu. (Courtesy the candidates)
Art Greg CookAugust 20, 2021 0

What Boston Mayoral Candidates Propose For Arts And Culture

What do the candidates running for mayor of Boston propose for arts and culture in the city? I reviewed the websites of the five major candidates seeking to be elected…Continue Reading →

Gyovanni (Giovanni Houessou) sings at First Baptist Church at 633 Centre St. during the 2015 Jamaica Plain Porchfest. (©Greg Cook photo)
Music Greg CookAugust 19, 2021 0

JP Porchfest Arrives With New BIPOC Leadership And Spotlight On Artists Of Color

“Big news from Jamaica Plain Porchfest,” read the headline of the email that arrived at the end of 2020. “Mindy Fried and Marie Ghitman, co-founders of Jamaica Plain Porchfest, are…Continue Reading →

Heron and swans along Mystic River, Medford, Aug. 15, 2021. (©Greg Cook photo)
Nature Greg CookAugust 15, 2021 0

Wildlife Along The Mystic River

Here are photos from our kayak down the Mystic River today, from the Mystic Lakes to Wellington, as part of research we’re doing for a video we’re creating about the…Continue Reading →

International Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach, Aug. 10, 2021. (©Kari Percival photo)
Art Greg CookAugust 14, 2021 0

Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Festival

The 2021 International Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach celebrated the 125th anniversary of the country’s first public beach. From Aug. 6 to 8, Sue McGrew, of Tacoma, Washington; Abe…Continue Reading →

Paul Goodnight and Larry Pierce’s temporary, printed mural “No Strings Detached” at Breeze’s Laundromat, Grove Hall, Boston, 2021. (Courtesy Now + There)
Art Greg CookAugust 12, 2021 0

Paul Goodnight And Larry Pierce Collaborate On Grove Hall Mural

The design for Boston artist Paul Goodnight and Larry Pierce’s temporary, printed mural “No Strings Detached” began with Goodnight’s row of animated musicians playing violin, stand-up bass and banjo. “The…Continue Reading →

From “We Are Here” by Marc Levy and Marc Salomon of The Marcs: Paperhand Puppet Intervention performs their 2019 summer spectacle called “We Are Here” in North Carolina. (Courtesy of The Marcs)
Performance Greg CookAugust 10, 2021 0

Paperhand Puppet Intervention Featured In New Documentary ‘We Are Here’

“In my darkest doubtfulest moments, you know, we’re doomed, humans,” Donovan Zimmerman says at the beginning of the new documentary video “We Are Here.” “They won’t destroy all life on…Continue Reading →

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