What Boston Mayoral Candidates Propose For Arts And Culture
What do the candidates running for mayor of Boston propose for arts and culture in the city? I reviewed the websites of the five major candidates seeking to be elected…Continue Reading →
JP Porchfest Arrives With New BIPOC Leadership And Spotlight On Artists Of Color
“Big news from Jamaica Plain Porchfest,” read the headline of the email that arrived at the end of 2020. “Mindy Fried and Marie Ghitman, co-founders of Jamaica Plain Porchfest, are…Continue Reading →
Wildlife Along The Mystic River
Here are photos from our kayak down the Mystic River today, from the Mystic Lakes to Wellington, as part of research we’re doing for a video we’re creating about the…Continue Reading →
Revere Beach Sand Sculpting Festival
The 2021 International Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach celebrated the 125th anniversary of the country’s first public beach. From Aug. 6 to 8, Sue McGrew, of Tacoma, Washington; Abe…Continue Reading →
Paul Goodnight And Larry Pierce Collaborate On Grove Hall Mural
The design for Boston artist Paul Goodnight and Larry Pierce’s temporary, printed mural “No Strings Detached” began with Goodnight’s row of animated musicians playing violin, stand-up bass and banjo. “The…Continue Reading →
Paperhand Puppet Intervention Featured In New Documentary ‘We Are Here’
“In my darkest doubtfulest moments, you know, we’re doomed, humans,” Donovan Zimmerman says at the beginning of the new documentary video “We Are Here.” “They won’t destroy all life on…Continue Reading →
Back In Print: Eliot Porter’s First Book: Photos Of New England Wilds, A Call For Conservation
The title of Eliot Porter’s first book of photography, “In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World,” was a quotation from the 19th century Transcendentalist author Henry David Thoreau of…Continue Reading →
‘Big Bugs’ At Portsmouth’s Green Animals Topiary Garden
In the fall of 1990, David Rogers was staying at a cousin’s farm in Vermont’s Green Mountains when he spotted a maple sapling bent from an ice storm the previous…Continue Reading →
Goodbye To Elka Schumann Of Bread And Puppet Theater
Elka Schumann, co-founder of Vermont’s legendary progressive activist Bread and Puppet Theater, died Sunday, afternoon Aug. 1, “surrounded by her five children and her partner Peter,” DeeDee Halleck writes. Schumann—”our…Continue Reading →
Kohler’s Art Preserve: Exploring The ‘World’s Largest Collection’ Of Visionary Environments
Ruth Kohler first heard about the home of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and his wife Marie in January 1983. Eugene had recently died and a friend, a retired police officer, brought samples…Continue Reading →