During covid, Kathleen Bitetti’s neighbor cut down trees that had shaded her South Boston yard, so she began filling the small dirt plot behind the triple decker in which she…Continue Reading →
In Somerville artist Jessica Straus’s exhibition “Packing for Mars,” at Boston Sculptors Gallery from April 4 to May 5, 2024, she “looks forward with dread to a future when humans…Continue Reading →
“Billy Ruane walked into the room and he said, ‘I need an extra room for my birthday party. I think I overbooked it,’” Joseph Satar, co-owner of Cambridge’s Middle East…Continue Reading →
The “Boston Comics in Color Festival” showcased comics creators of color with a hall full of comics for sale, talks and live music at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic…Continue Reading →
“Shanhai jing”—which gives the title to the choral singing and puppetry performance “Book of Mountains and Seas” at ArtEmerson’s Emerson Paramount Center in Boston from April 19 to 21, 2024—is…Continue Reading →
“And if our yelling does not reach their uninterested ears? Will we invent new yells that are harder to neglect?” asks Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater in its terrific and…Continue Reading →
![Jim McGrath and others, "Untitled [Playland]," 1950s to 1980s, photographs. (Collection of The History Project)](https://gregcookland.com/wonderland/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/picJim-McGrath-AsTheWorldBurns240324_P1102412w530.jpg)
Snapshots of the Boston bar Playland taken by bartender Jim McGrath and friends beginning in 1958 and ’59 show a drag queen leaning on a jukebox under clouds of balloons,…Continue Reading →
Our friends at Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater bring their new performance “The Hope Principle Show: Citizens’ Shame and Hope in the Time of Genocide” to Massachusetts over the next…Continue Reading →
In 1960, when Joseph Tetteh-Ashong was 15, he began an apprenticeship in coffin-making with his mother’s cousin, Seth Kane Kwei. The training led Tetteh-Ashong, or Paa Joe, as he’s become…Continue Reading →
Among the fiercest political graphics that appeared during the Trump Administration were Edel Rodriguez’s covers for Time magazine and the weekly German magazine Der Spiegel. In the New Jersey artist’s…Continue Reading →