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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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: 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 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 →
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 →
“My work has a lot of circles, representing infinity. They just keep going and going and going. And that’s what we do, my people do. We keep going and going…Continue Reading →
In Carlos Reyes’s one-room exhibition, “18,” at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge from Oct. 27, 2023, to March 10, 2024, are four 2-foot-wide monoliths made from cedar planks, scratched…Continue Reading →
The paintings in “The Cosmic Cartographies of Shane Drinkwater,” which were at Calvin-Morris Gallery in New York from Sept 14 to Oct. 21, 2023, read like diagrams of planets orbiting…Continue Reading →