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 ‘Upside Down World Circus’ Coming To Cambridge And Lawrence 9/6&7
Bread & Puppet Theater’s “Upside Down World Circus” is a circus of stilters and dancing puppet horses and clowning puppet bears and giant sacred puppets towering over the circus ring.…Continue Reading →
Niki De Saint Phalle At Atlanta Botanical Garden
Forty sculptures by French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle are featured in “Niki in the Garden” at the Atlanta Botanical Garden from May 9 to Sept. 6, 2026. A revival…Continue Reading →
‘Worldbuilders’: A Generational Change In Disney Worlds
“Oh my god, this is unbelievable. … I can’t believe this. It’s real. This is Arendelle,” “Frozen” writer and director Jennifer Lee exclaims, and chokes up, as she tours the…Continue Reading →
Kari Percival’s ‘Fall Day, All Day’: A Celebration Of Toddlers’ First Autumns
“Fall is a great time to go outdoors and see squirrels running around gathering nuts, hear the bluejays and crows calling, Canada geese honking, see the leaves turning vivid orange…Continue Reading →
Yayoi Kusama, Creator Of ‘Infinity Rooms,’ Dies At 97
Yayoi Kusama, creator of sensational mirrored, hallucination-like, walk-in installations that she called “Infinity Rooms,” died Aug. 14 in a Tokyo hospital at age 97, the Yayoi Kusama Museum and Yayoi…Continue Reading →
How Dolly Parton Helped My Family Get Through Cancer
There are so many of you that I have to thank for helping me and my family successfully get through cancer. And it turns out one of you I have…Continue Reading →
String And Shadow’s ‘Night At The Grand Opera’
“A single night at the Grand Royal Opera House, where industrialists, revolutionaries, the players of the opera house and the vermin who inhabit its walls collide,” is how String and…Continue Reading →
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Upside Down World Resurrection Pageant’
“Through all the world below / God is seen all around / Search hills and valleys / Through there she’s found,” sing the performers, all clad in white, as they…Continue Reading →
David ‘Tuyo’ Schmitt’s Folksy Prints
David Schmitt, the Barcelona-based artist who works under the name Tuyo, draws on the basic shapes of folk art and cave painting in his print set and cards launched at…Continue Reading →
Art Stays Here: Fighting To Preserve Artist Workspaces For 6 Years
It was terribly depressing when Humphrey Street Studios in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood was put up for sale in 2019—and seemed to be doomed to displace some three dozen artists. Sculptor…Continue Reading →