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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Manual Cinema’s ‘4th Witch’ Riffs On ‘Macbeth’ For A Puppet Fable Of War And Betrayal
World War I-style biplanes bomb a restaurant, orphaning the proprietor’s daughter. French newspaper headlines warn of the advance of Macbeth’s army and urge resistance. The girl flees into a tangled…Continue Reading →
Wooden Folk Toys Meet Bauhaus Ballet In Lesley Barnes and Ross McAuley’s ‘Fashion Play’
“Wooden friends” began appearing in illustrator Lesley Barnes’s social media in 2019—along with her pop-up book “Bauhaus Ballet.” They were like flat, graphic, modernist geometric illustrations come to life. Some…Continue Reading →
Building ‘The Giant Puppet And People Making Mayhem Parade’
We recently bumped into Muffy Pendergast, who for some years now has organized “The Giant Puppet And People Making Mayhem Parade” in New Haven, Connecticut. The “Empress of Westville,” as…Continue Reading →
A Visit To The 2025 Topsfield Fair
We paid a visit to the 207th Topsfield Fair, which runs from Oct. 3 to 13, 2025. Descended from an 1820 “Cattle Show,” it’s billed as “America’s oldest,” and its…Continue Reading →
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 →