10 Ideas For How To Be An Artist And Parent
“I had a perfect plan,” said one mom in the audience of the “How To Be An Artist And Parent” talk that Somerville artist and dad Tim Devin and I…Continue Reading →
Naughtiest Bits of Musica Sacra’s Sexy ‘Song of Songs’ Performance Revealed
Tonight the Cambridge choral ensemble Musica Sacra sings selections from the Bible’s notoriously lascivious “Song of Songs.” These Bible passages, as set to music by various composers over the years,…Continue Reading →
Boston Cultural Plan announcement from Mayor Walsh
Below is the entire text of the City of Boston’s announcement about it’s plans to create a Cultural Plan: MAYOR WALSH ANNOUNCES BOSTON CREATES Community driven process will create first-ever…Continue Reading →
New MFA director’s dad ‘despised’ lack of museum support for living, local artists
An open letter to new Museum of Fine Arts Director Matthew Teitelbaum: Congratulations on being named the next director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts—and welcome back to Boston. One…Continue Reading →
Spring is coming…
Broken sleds at Fellsmere Pond in Malden, Massachusetts, March 9, 2015. (Greg Cook) Continue Reading →
Second Line Parades and Mardi Gras Floats in New Orleans
Last October, I got a chance to visit New Orleans and photographed one of the amazing, regular weekend Second Line parades; Mardi Gras World, where they make and store many…Continue Reading →
Greg Cook’s Snow Unicorn with Icicle Horn
Check out the snow unicorn with an icicle horn that I sculpted on Feb. 13 and that snow bear that I sculpted on Feb. 7 with generous help from Malden…Continue Reading →
Mike Lash’s ‘Ugly Paintings’
Mike Lash’s “stated purpose behind his art is to ‘make stuff, mostly stuff that has no real reason to exist, but now, they do exist,’” Patrick Collier writes in introduction…Continue Reading →
For Sale: Custom 1977 Dodge B200 Maxi Van
For Sale: Custom 1977 Dodge B200 Maxi Van – $5000 (Lakeville, MA): “I am the 3rd owner of this van, which originally hailed from Massillon, Ohio. From birth, it was…Continue Reading →
Gerrit Lansing’s ‘I See Bright Sun Illuminating Absence’
I was sad to hear that tomorrow’s reading by the legendary Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing at Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room has been cancelled (Snow!). So I called him up and…Continue Reading →