At Brattleboro Museum, The Dreams Of New England Stone
If the stones that make up the facade of Vermont’s Brattleboro Museum & Art Center had been able to chose their fate, what would they have dreamed of becoming? Michael…Continue Reading →
Photos: Provincetown Carnival Parade: Land Of Toys
Provincetown’s 45th annual Carnival Parade danced down Commercial Street from the Harbor Hotel in the East End to the Coast Guard Station in the West End yesterday afternoon. This year’s…Continue Reading →
Ted Degener Has Spent 50 Years Photographing Creators Of Visionary Art Environments
For more than five decades, Ted Degener—who lives near Cornish, New Hampshire—has driven across the United States photographing more than 400 visionary art environments and their creators. His photos and…Continue Reading →
St. Rocco Festival Honors Catholic Saint Of Protection Against Illness
In 1929, a group of Italian-Catholic Immigrants formed the Saint Rocco Fraternal Society in the Edgeworth section of Malden, Massachusetts, to help locals afflicted with flu. They named it for…Continue Reading →
Edie Fake’s Patterns Fill Providence College Galleries
Artist, illustrator, author, and activist Edie Fake, who resides in Twentynine Palms, California, is featured in “On the Wall: Edie Fake” at Providence College’s Reilly Gallery, Smith Center for the…Continue Reading →
Amidst ‘70s Boston Desegregation Protests, A Mom Investigates Her Daughter’s Disappearance, In Dennis Lehane’s New Novel
Recommended The folks in Southie might not have money, but at least they take care of their own. That’s the code of honor that steadies Mary Pat Fennessy at the…Continue Reading →
The Dominican Carnival Costumes Of Asociacion Carnavalesca de Massachusetts
More than a decade ago, Stelvyn Mirabal, the founder of the Lawrence group Asociacion Carnavalesca de Massachusetts, told me some of the anti-colonial symbolism of the ruffled suits and monstrous,…Continue Reading →
Nicole Duennebier’s Sumptuous, Ominous Still-Lifes
In Nicole Duennebier’s exhibition “Tender Burden,” at 13 Forest gallery in Arlington from May 20 to July 14, 2023, she finds inspiration in the “memorial flowers and the trinkets we…Continue Reading →
Tim Fite’s ‘Paradise Will Break Your Heart’
Brooklyn musician and artist Tim Fite says he makes “large scale, compositionally complex, allegorical, black and white drawings.” And he painted one of his latest, “Paradise Will Break Your Heart,”…Continue Reading →
Artists Customize PinBox 3000 Cardboard Pinball Machine Kit
“We wanted to make something that was very kinetic in our design and that would empower people to have a tactile experience in playing the game,” explains Ben t. Matchstick,…Continue Reading →