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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Circa Combines Circus Acrobatics And Dance At Jacob’s Pillow
In the astonishing acrobatics and slinky aerialists and feats of strength, in the modern showgirls and strongmen of Australia’s Circa Contemporary Circus, you can sense their traditional circus roots—even as…Continue Reading →
Ansis Puriņš: ‘I Missed Out On Saturday Morning Cartoons’
“I missed out on Saturday morning cartoons as a kid because I had to go to Latvian school,” artist Ansis Puriņš of Boston’s Brighton neighborhood writes, “to learn the language…Continue Reading →
Judith Klausner And The Cost Of Perfect Lawns
What is the cost of our quest for perfect lawns? Somerville artist Judith Klausner’s exhibition “There Goes The Neighborhood” is an examination and sendup of our society’s infatuation with lawn…Continue Reading →
Outsiders: Greg Cook’s Landscape Sketches
This was my cancer year. Though you wouldn’t necessarily guess it from these drawings. I drew the tree on the tiny island at the Breakheart Reservation on they day I…Continue Reading →
Malden River: After The Downpour
A double rainbow appeared as the downpour subsided and the sun broke through the angry gray clouds on the evening of July 4. I had my waterproof muck boots in…Continue Reading →
Photos: ‘Summer Solace’ By Janelle Gilchrist Dance Troupe
“Summer Solace,” a showcase of ballet and modern works presented by Boston’s Janelle Gilchrist Dance Troupe at Cambridge’s Foundry on July 11 and 12, 2026, aims to be “a performance…Continue Reading →
Malden River: Birds Have Found An Oasis
Where the Malden River emerges from under Malden’s downtown, birds have found a small oasis hidden behind a wall of trees at the edges of surrounding stores, a function hall,…Continue Reading →
Freeing The Ware River
What does it mean to remove a dam that’s constrained a river for more than a century? What does it look like to loose the bindings that have impeded the…Continue Reading →
Photos: St. Peter’s Fiesta In Gloucester
I’ve been documenting the St. Peter’s Fiesta in Gloucester for three decades now—but this time, the 99th year, as I’m recovering from my year of (successful) treatment for cancer, treatment that…Continue Reading →
Hans Rickheit’s Haunted Sexy Cyborg Worlds
Hans Rickheit is an excellent draftsman who creates comics set in unsettling erotic steampunk worlds of lithe young women and troll-like men and insectile cyborg prosthetics. His art can slither…Continue Reading →