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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Books I Read In 2025
Here are most of the books I read (finished and unfinished) during 2025 in roughly the order I read them. Thanks to the Malden and Boston public libraries for free…Continue Reading →
Sketchbook Drawings By Dazzling Weirdo ’60s Psychedelic Chicago Artist Karl Wirsum
The late 1960s drawings of dazzling weirdo psychedelic Chicago artist Karl Wirsum create pop icons. His neon electric free-association visionary style is astoundingly unique, bringing to mind “Space Invaders” video…Continue Reading →
Goodbye To Boston Cartoonist Dan Moynihan
Heartbreaking to hear the news this afternoon of Boston cartoonist and designer and my friend Dan Moynihan suddenly dying on Dec. 21–leaving behind his wife Cathy Moynihan and their 14-month-old…Continue Reading →
Goodbye To Revered Boston Artist Napoleon Jones-Henderson
Revered Roxbury artist Napoleon Jones-Henderson died Saturday, Dec. 6, a City of Boston staffer tells me. He’d long been ill with cancer. He was an eminence. He was so cool.…Continue Reading →
Goodbye, Cambridge Poet Charles Coe
Charles Coe, the poet and storyteller and teacher and musician (his beloved didgeridoo) and longtime arts administrator for the Massachusetts Cultural Council, was found dead in his Cambridge residence last…Continue Reading →
Dazzling Light Restoration Of 1936 Art Deco Cambridge Storefront
Wow! You need to check this out in person: Newly restored architectural lights delineating the facade of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Reading Room at 23 Church St., Cambridge, turn the…Continue Reading →
34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil And March
“Everyone we lost,” Nigel Griffith said, “..it is because of them we’re still here keeping up this fight.” He was kicking off the 34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil at…Continue Reading →
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 →