Tattoos: Ferdinand The Peaceful Bull
Photographer Ryan Williams of Granby arrived at the opening day tour of the exhibition “Under the Cork Tree: The Story of Ferdinand” at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book…Continue Reading →
‘Temple of Our Ancestral Dreams’ At Pao Arts Center
“This space could have become parking garage, but it didn’t,” Anita Yip explained as she presented “Still, We Gather” at Metropolitan Courtyard on Oak Street, in Boston’s Chinatown, on May…Continue Reading →
Herring Make Annual Spawning Run At Woburn’s Horn Pond Dam
Herring trying to get up the rocks at Horn Pond Dam in Woburn, Massachusetts. Part of a documentary video I’m working on about their annual spring spawning run up the…Continue Reading →
Was Celebrated Picture Book ‘Ferdinand,’ A Pacifist/ Communist/ Socialist/ Fascist/ Gay Plot?
I first encountered the celebrated 1936 picture book “The Story of Ferdinand” not as a child, but as a young cartoonist trying to figure out how to draw with a…Continue Reading →
How Did They Do That? ‘Photorealism in Focus’ at Brandeis’s Rose Art Museum
The paintings and sculptures in the survey exhibition “Photorealism in Focus” at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham from Feb. 11 to May 31, 2026, dazzle with the handcraft…Continue Reading →
‘Chroma Zone’ At Blue Triangle
If there’s a color of the moment, “Chroma Zone” at Blue Triangle Gallery in Union Square, Somerville, from Feb. 20 to May 1, 2026, made me think again that it’s…Continue Reading →
‘Baby Animals Festival’ At Hancock Shaker Village
On a recent sunny Saturday morning, Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, launched one of the great rites of spring in the Berkshires: the village’s annual “Baby Animals Festival,” running…Continue Reading →
Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival: Photos
Gore Place, the historic, 50-acre estate in Waltham, welcomed spring today with its annual Sheepshearing Festival. It featured demonstrations of traditional shearing techniques, herding dogs, historic re-enactors, music, craft and…Continue Reading →
Nell Blaine’s Gloucester
In the late 1950s, Nell Blaine’s art career was on the rise. She was profiled in the May 1957 Life magazine article “Women Artists in Ascendance” alongside “notable artists who…Continue Reading →
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Woyzeck’
In 1981, Bread and Puppet Theater toured Germany performing “Woyzeck,” their version of German writer Georg Buchner’s sad, bleak, femicide play, which he left in unfinished fragments at his death…Continue Reading →