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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Welcoming Spring At Bread & Puppet
“It’s more important than ever to remember the ways of our ancestors,” Maria Schumann told the crowd as she launched the “Spring Ritual” on the Circus Field at Bread and…Continue Reading →
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 →