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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‘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 →
‘Ferdinand,’ Celebrated Picture Book About Bull Who Prefers Flowers To Fighting, Turns 90
I first encountered the celebrated 1936 picture book “The Story of Ferdinand” not as a child, but as a young cartoonist trying to figure out how to draw with a…Continue Reading →
How Did They Do That? ‘Photorealism in Focus’ at Brandeis’s Rose Art Museum
The paintings and sculptures in the survey exhibition “Photorealism in Focus” at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum in Waltham from Feb. 11 to May 31, 2026, dazzle with the handcraft…Continue Reading →
‘Chroma Zone’ At Blue Triangle
If there’s a color of the moment, “Chroma Zone” at Blue Triangle Gallery in Union Square, Somerville, from Feb. 20 to May 1, 2026, made me think again that it’s…Continue Reading →
‘Baby Animals Festival’ At Hancock Shaker Village
On a recent sunny Saturday morning, Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, launched one of the great rites of spring in the Berkshires: the village’s annual “Baby Animals Festival,” running…Continue Reading →
Gore Place Sheepshearing Festival: Photos
Gore Place, the historic, 50-acre estate in Waltham, welcomed spring today with its annual Sheepshearing Festival. It featured demonstrations of traditional shearing techniques, herding dogs, historic re-enactors, music, craft and…Continue Reading →
Nell Blaine’s Gloucester
In the late 1950s, Nell Blaine’s art career was on the rise. She was profiled in the May 1957 Life magazine article “Women Artists in Ascendance” alongside “notable artists who…Continue Reading →
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Woyzeck’
In 1981, Bread and Puppet Theater toured Germany performing “Woyzeck,” their version of German writer Georg Buchner’s sad, bleak, femicide play, which he left in unfinished fragments at his death…Continue Reading →
Bread & Puppet’s ‘The End Of The World Never Minding Show’
Our friends Bread and Puppet Theater brought “The End of the World Never Minding Show!” to Somerville’s Center for the Arts at the Armory last night near the end of…Continue Reading →