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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Remembering Three Enslaved People Who Poisoned Their Captor: A Cambridge Symposium
“One of the things that makes us uncomfortable is the history of violence, but the 250th [anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence] is all about the celebration…Continue Reading →
Shiny Shop Invites You To Be Seen, Safe, Shiny
Lately, Clara Wainwright–the legendary Cambridge and Gloucester quilter and installation artist who founded The Great Boston Kite Festival in 1969 and Boston’s First Night in 1976–became concerned about the safety…Continue Reading →
Muskrat At Saugus River
Muskrat! Was convalescing while chatting with a friend along the Saugus River, just upstream of the Saugus Iron Works, on a recent afternoon. We got quiet for a while. And…Continue Reading →
‘L.V. Hull: Love Is a Sensation’
“Do not try to understand me, just love me,” said L.V. Hull (1942–2008). In small town Kosciusko, Mississippi, the Black, female, self-taught artist used televisions and toys and bottles and…Continue Reading →
JooYoung Choi: ‘You Have Always Been Loved’
“Have Faith for You Have Always Been Loved” read streamers curling across a 2026 mixed-media painting in JooYoung Choi’s exhibition “Adventures of the Quantum Soup Surfer” at Amherst College’s Mead…Continue Reading →
In ‘Backrooms’s Cursed Maze Of Abandoned Retail Architecture, Finding America Gone Wrong
The horror flick “Backrooms” originates from an unforgettable image: an endless maze of eerily abandoned, generic commercial spaces, punctuated by odd stacks of furniture, all wall-to-wall industrial carpet, drop-ceilings, buzzing…Continue Reading →
Horseshoe Crabs Nesting At Mouth Of Saugus River
Horseshoe crabs like to do their ancient, annual nesting/mating at the highest tide at the full moon or new moon in late May, early June. Which around these parts was…Continue Reading →
Tattoos: Ferdinand The Peaceful Bull
Photographer Ryan Williams of Granby arrived at the opening day tour of the exhibition “Under the Cork Tree: The Story of Ferdinand” at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book…Continue Reading →
‘Temple of Our Ancestral Dreams’ At Pao Arts Center
“This space could have become parking garage, but it didn’t,” Anita Yip explained as she presented “Still, We Gather” at Metropolitan Courtyard on Oak Street, in Boston’s Chinatown, on May…Continue Reading →
Herring Make Annual Spawning Run At Woburn’s Horn Pond Dam
Herring trying to get up the rocks at Horn Pond Dam in Woburn, Massachusetts. Part of a documentary video I’m working on about their annual spring spawning run up the…Continue Reading →