Month: October 2025

Lesley Barnes and Ross McAuley, "Fashion Play," 2025. Installation view at YSP. (Photo © Jo Crawford, courtesy Yorkshire Sculpture Park)

Art Greg CookOctober 30, 2025 0

Wooden Folk Toys Meet Bauhaus Ballet In Lesley Barnes and Ross McAuley’s ‘Fashion Play’

“Wooden friends” began appearing in illustrator Lesley Barnes’s social media in 2019—along with her pop-up book “Bauhaus Ballet.” They were like flat, graphic, modernist geometric illustrations come to life. Some…Continue Reading →

Puppet workshop for "The Giant Puppet And People Making Mayhem Parade" at the Coogan Pavilion at the Edgewood Skatepark, New Haven, Connecticut, Oct. 11, 2025. (©Greg Cook photo)

Parades Greg CookOctober 15, 2025 0

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 Parade” in New Haven, Connecticut. The “Empress of Westville,” as…Continue Reading →

Alex Noel's fair-record 2,507-pound giant pumpkin in the Fruits & Vegetables Barn. Topsfield Fair, Oct. 6, 2025. (©Greg Cook photo)

Festivals Greg CookOctober 8, 2025 0

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 1820 “Cattle Show,” it’s billed as “America’s oldest,” and its…Continue Reading →