Honk kickoff at Nave Gallery
The Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band performed at the Nave Gallery Annex tonight to kick off the 2016 Honk Festival. Photos copyright Greg Cook.Continue Reading →
Rally for Indigenous Peoples Day in Boston
Native American groups calling for the City of Boston to name the second Monday of October “Indigenous Peoples Day” and abolish celebrations of Christopher Columbus Day brought dozens of people to Boston…Continue Reading →
Somerville AgriCultural Festival
The Somerville AgriCultural Festival at Art Farm, Oct. 2, 2016. Photos copyright Greg Cook, except where indicated.Continue Reading →
‘Protect the Water’: Dakota Pipeline Protest at Boston’s South Station
“We stand with Standing Rock Sioux” was one of the signs some four dozen protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline project held during a rally at Boston’s South Station yesterday…Continue Reading →
Revere Beach Picnic!
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Revere Beach Picnic. It was a picnic meet-up and sandcastle building shindig at Revere Beach, hosted by Sandcastle Matt (Kaliner), artist Kari…Continue Reading →
‘My Son’: A Killing by Police Protested at Boston Police Headquarters
In the video, projected on a building across from Boston Police Headquarters tonight, Carla Sheffield stood six-stories tall, holding a photo of her dead son, and crying. Burrell Ramsey-White was…Continue Reading →
Franklin Graham prayer rally in Boston: ‘We’re on the verge of losing our nation’
“Ladies and gentlemen, we’re on the verge of losing our nation,” Franklin Graham, son of the famous Christian evangelist Billy Graham, told thousands who’d come to Boston Common for his…Continue Reading →
In solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux, a pipeline protest at TD Bank in Cambridge
A group led by Arlington United for Justice with Peace protested TD Bank in Cambridge’s Central Square this evening “in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline.”…Continue Reading →
Greg Cook makes a ‘Friends Is Friends’ linocut
Here’s how Greg Cook carved and printed a linocut rendition of the cover of his long comic book “Friends Is Friends,” August 2016. Above: Finished prints hung up to dry.Continue Reading →
‘Rodin: Transforming Sculpture’ at Peabody Essex Museum
Versions of many of Rodin’s masterpieces–including his iconic “The Thinker”–are on view in “Rodin: Transforming Sculpture” at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass. (May 14 to Sept. 5, 2016),…Continue Reading →