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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Bread & Puppet’s ‘Revolution in Progress Circus’ Is Coming
Our friends Bread & Puppet Theater bring their “Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus” to Cambridge Common on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, at 4 p.m. in partnership with Cambridge…Continue Reading →
Dirt Palace: Providence’s Feminist Art Collective Celebrates 25 Years
Twenty-five years ago, in a derelict library in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood, a group of women came together to found a feminist art collective / feminist artist-run space that they came…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet’s ‘Oh You Beast Descendants’
“This death of Gaza is not chaotic, it is scheduled,” a narrator says during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Oh You Beast Descendants.” “…Its aim is not to subdue an enemy,…Continue Reading →
First Boston Public Art Triennial: An Afternoon Tour
The first Boston Public Art Triennial officially opened on May 22. For a decade, the nonprofit Now+There had been installing one-off temporary public art around Boston. It rebranded as the…Continue Reading →
Goodbye, Linda Elbow
We arrived at Bread.and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont, last Friday evening to learn that our friend Linda Elbow had just died. She began working with the theater in the…Continue Reading →
Photos: St. Peter’s Fiesta In Gloucester
At the start of summer in the last days of June, Gloucester celebrated its 98th annual St. Peter’s Fiesta—my beloved Sicilian Catholic fishing drinking festival. It’s a festival of the…Continue Reading →
Wonderland Spectacle Co.’s ‘How To Walk Among The Stars’
“What are the wishes of fireflies? Can we summon fireflies to return to our backyards? What is the etiquette that will repair our relationship with our most magical neighbors?” asked Wonderland…Continue Reading →
The Techniques Behind Edvard Munch’s Anxious Art
In “Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking”—at the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge from March 7 to July 27, 2025—people face away from us on bridges, at the shore, in a forest.…Continue Reading →
Photos: Outsider Art Fair in New York
The annual Outsider Art Fair features “self-taught, outsider, or art brut artists.” Part of its delight is a chance to see works by deceased artists now in the history books—like…Continue Reading →
Why American Repertory Theater Tells ‘The Odyssey’s Backstory With Puppets
How do you introduce the backstory of Homer’s epic ancient tale “The Odyssey”? How Odysseus, the legendary Greek king and the story’s namesake, tried to evade service in the Trojan…Continue Reading →