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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Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race: Part Bicycle, Park Raft, Part Art, Part Comedy
This year’s Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race–featuring “human powered sculptures racing for glory through stone, mud and water”–is Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. Admission is free. It’s one of my favorite spectacles…Continue Reading →
Goodbye, Psychedelic Pop Star Peter Max
Peter Max, who rocketed to fame as one of the iconic psychedelic artists of the late ’60s, died at age 88 in Manhattan on Monday, Sept. 14. He had been…Continue Reading →
Union Workers Picket Encore Casino For Better Pay
Union workers are picketing the Encore casino in Everett as they seek a new “contract that delivers better wages, stronger benefits, and enhanced protections on the job.” More than 1,300…Continue Reading →
‘Sensory-Friendly’ Calmer Con Comics Convention 9/12
Calmer Con Boston, a “sensory-friendly” comic and pop culture convention, will be at the Meadowbrook School, 10 Farm Road, Weston, this Saturday, Sept. 12, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Free admission with…Continue Reading →
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 →