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 →
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 →
“Herons are believed to be symbols of good luck and transformation,” Travis Coe, who co-directed “The Heron’s Flight” with Jennifer Johnson at Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts, says at…Continue Reading →
The visionary artist Jon Sarkin died in his storefront Fish City Studios at 39 Main St. in Gloucester on Friday afternoon, July 19. [Update July 26: I’m hearing a memorial…Continue Reading →
This week was a week of lasts at Gallery Kayafas in Boston. “Sitting here stuffing envelopes for the LAST exhibits,” owner Arlette Kayafas posted to social media a few days…Continue Reading →
“Proud Winner of the Guinness Book of World Records Largest Sailors Valentine in the World,” an 8-foot-tall pattern of radiating flower designs, is the showstopper at New York artist Duke…Continue Reading →
The Mermaid Promenade kicked off the Cambridge Arts River Festival along the Charles River this morning. The parade, which I organized, featured numerous wonderful volunteer mermaids and mer-people, numerous puppets…Continue Reading →
“We’re there to lift up the spirits and the vibrations of the thousands of free and enslaved Africans and African-Americans that are buried there,” Ifé Franklin says of her “Egun…Continue Reading →
Late last year, archivists made a dramatic discovery when paging through an old guest book at the Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Long thought lost, the guest book—full of…Continue Reading →
At the beginning of director George Miller’s bitter, thrilling film “Furiosa,” the latest installment of his decades-long “Mad Max Saga,” a couple girls are picking peaches in a lush green…Continue Reading →
In some spiritual traditions the “Axis Mundi,” or axis of the world, is a place where heaven and earth come close together and can link. In William Schaff’s mixed media…Continue Reading →