John Wilson And The Art Of Black Dignity
Around the start of 1986, John Wilson wrapped the bust he’d sculpted of Martin Luther King Jr. in blankets and an old sleeping bag and placed the 3-foot-tall bronze head…Continue Reading →
Waterfall At Beaver Brook Reservation
Another waterfall close to Boston is the Cascade at the Commonwealth’s Beaver Brook Reservation along the Belmont-Waltham line. Beaver Brook flows from Lexington through Belmont and Waltham to the Charles…Continue Reading →
Escape From The Bitter Cold In A Greenhouse
When it gets especially freezy out, I like to escape to a local greenhouse for a bit of warm, green humidity. So I recently made a getaway to the Lyman…Continue Reading →
Leonora Carrington Quit Her Family, Fled Nazis, And, In Mexico, Dreamed Up Mystical Worlds
In Leonora Carrington’s 1947 painting “Night Nursery Everything,” a giant golden woman with flowers in her hair smiles down at a pink dancer as a boy sits up in a…Continue Reading →
Frozen Waterfall A Short Walk From End Of Orange Line
The Cascade in the Middlesex Fells is always dazzling after a fresh snow–and especially after a few weeks of freezing temperatures have turned the waterfall into an ice palace. The…Continue Reading →
CW Roelle’s Drawings In Air
“I began drawing with wire in 1997 when, as a student at The Maryland Institute College of Art, I became frustrated with the separation between my hand and the line…Continue Reading →
The Start Of The Mississippi River
At the end of the summer, the 11-year-old and I drove up to the start of the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota. We arrived just after sunset, and the darkening…Continue Reading →
Maria Molteni At The Intersection Of Basketball, Craft And Mysticism
Maria Molteni grew up playing basketball. “I think I’ve always felt really close to the process of shooting free throws,” Molteni says. “Any kind of meditative task is opening your…Continue Reading →
Some Cartoonists To Check Out At Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo–aka MICE–is Dec. 7 and 8, 2024, at Boston University’s Fuller Building, 808 Commonwealth Ave., Brookline. Free admission. If this is the kind of coverage of arts,…Continue Reading →
Spoke’s World AIDS Day Vigil To Remember Those We’ve Lost To AIDS
It was quiet at 8 Sunday morning at Spoke’s annual World AIDS Day: Day Without Art vigil at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St., Boston. I…Continue Reading →