Wonderlands: Visionary And Folk Art Sites Across The U.S.
For several years now, I’ve been making pilgrimages to visionary sites across the United States. Below are a selection of photos from those trips. I’ll add more as I go.…Continue Reading →
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Heidi Whitman’s ‘Ahab’s Head: American Vengeance’
Blood. And destruction. Those are the central elements of Heidi Whitman’s 2025 one-room installation “Ahab’s Head: American Vengeance” at the New Bedford Whaling Museum from Dec. 13, 2025, to May…Continue Reading →
Christopher Frost’s Revolutionary War Insurgents
Under a 19-foot-tall granite obelisk at the center of Arlington’s Old Burying Ground, off Pleasant Street, are the bodies of 12 locals killed during the first day of fighting of…Continue Reading →
Somerville Arts Council Director Greg Jenkins Honored
A party was held last night to honor my friend Greg Jenkins, who was pushed out of his role as director of the Somerville Arts Council in February. The “Arts…Continue Reading →
Goodbye, Pearl Fryar, Topiary Gardener
In the early 1980s, Pearl Fryar began transforming his home in Bishopville, South Carolina, into a fantastic topiary garden, often using plants rescued from the compost piles of local nurseries.…Continue Reading →
‘Everything And More’ At Street Theory
The all-women exhibition “Everything And More,” at Street Theory Collective in Cambridge from Feb. 12 to April 11, 2026, explores “how inherited histories shape contemporary form. Ancestry is approached not…Continue Reading →
‘Homecoming’: Toy Theater Mulling Migration
“Homecoming” was a meditation on migration, immigration and home–from bird sightings to immigrants crossing the globe. The original toy theater show, a form of miniature, table-top puppetry, was creatred and…Continue Reading →
Greenberg’s Great Train & Toy Show
Greenberg’s Great Train & Toy Show at the Shriners Auditorium in Wilmington, Massachusetts, March 21 and 22, 2026. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms…Continue Reading →
‘Crafting the Mind’ At Somerville Museum
“What would have happened to me if I’d been treated in the 19th century?” wondered Rachel May after receiving care for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in 2010 at McLean Hospital, whose…Continue Reading →
One Of The Best Exhibits Of The Year: Masako Miki’s Furry Cosmic Creatures
The creatures populating the exhibit “Masako Miki: Midnight March,” on view the MassArt Art Museum in Boston from Jan. 29 to May 31, 2026, are delightful furry soft things, dotted…Continue Reading →
Yinka Shonibare: How Do We Offer Compassion To Immigrants And Refugees?
In a darkened gallery, black-painted model buildings glow from within. Looking in the tiny windows of 18 little buildings—Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, the United Nations skyscraper in New York,…Continue Reading →