Healing Via Psychedelics And Abstract Painting?
“I was lucky to discover painting and psychedelics at the same time. I was like, ‘This is what I want to do with my life,’” artist James Neville (pictured above)…Continue Reading →
The Children’s Books Of Celebrated Designer Seymour Chwast
In 1954, Seymour Chwast, along with a handful of friends he’d made while studying art and design at Cooper Union, founded the New York design shop Push Pin Studios. Along…Continue Reading →
How Puppet Magic Brings Plexus Polaire’s ‘Moby Dick’ To Life
“It’s the perfect way of bringing something back to life,” says Julian Spooner, who plays the narrator Ishmael in Plexus Polaire’s puppet version of “Moby Dick.” “Everyone is kind of…Continue Reading →
Can You See Into The Soul Of A City Through Its Newspaper?
What can you learn about a community through the eyes of its newspaper? Can you see into its soul? That’s was I was trying to figure out on visits to…Continue Reading →
Willie Alexander, Godfather Of Boston Punk, Celebrates His 81st Birthday
I was lucky to spend last night celebrating the 81st birthday of my friend Willie Alexander—with a capacity crowd of some 500 people packed into the new Gloucester nightclub The…Continue Reading →
In John Singer Sargent’s Dashing Gilded Age Portraits, Clothes Signal Prestige, Wealth, Power
The thrill of “Fashioned by Sargent” is 19th century society portrait painter John Singer Sargent’s dashing skill with a brush. I always think of him as an incredibly sure-handed marksman—each…Continue Reading →
‘The Boy And The Heron’ Is Hayao Miyazaki’s Dreamlike Exploration Of Grief
A blaze at the hospital where his mother works awakens a young boy. The boy, Mahito Maki, runs through the streets to the fire, but his mother perishes in the flames.…Continue Reading →
‘Véxoa’ Offers Revelatory Look At Brazilian Indigenous Art Today
“Véxoa: We Know,” at the Tufts University Art Galleries Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford, from Sept. 5 to Dec. 10, 2023, is a revelatory survey of indigenous art-making…Continue Reading →
‘As We Rise’: Photos Of The ‘Beauty And Power Of Black Life’
As a boy, growing up in Windsor, Canada, Kenneth Montague’s parents took him to art exhibits in Windsor and across the border in Detroit. That is how the Jamaican Canadian…Continue Reading →
‘Divine Providence’: Bert Crenca’s Love Affair With The City In All Its Beautiful Messiness
Over the years, Bert Crenca has made lots of art—music and performances, sculptures and wild paintings of people and things warped and stretched and mutated, like visions out of strange…Continue Reading →