As the story goes, in 1976, when Howard Finster was 60, the Baptist preacher was painting a bicycle when he got paint on his hand and fell into a vision.…Continue Reading →
One of the fascinating things about nature is how patterns repeat—the way, for example, the branching of trees can rhyme with the branching of rivers. This repetition can convince some…Continue Reading →
Update Feb. 3, 2024: Striking Newton public school teachers won increased pay, increased family leave, and increased mental health supports for students in a tentative contract deal with the city…Continue Reading →
“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 →
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 →
“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 →
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 →