‘L.V. Hull: Love Is a Sensation’
“Do not try to understand me, just love me,” said L.V. Hull (1942–2008). In small town Kosciusko, Mississippi, the Black, female, self-taught artist used televisions and toys and bottles and…Continue Reading →
JooYoung Choi: ‘You Have Always Been Loved’
“Have Faith for You Have Always Been Loved” read streamers curling across a 2026 mixed-media painting in JooYoung Choi’s exhibition “Adventures of the Quantum Soup Surfer” at Amherst College’s Mead…Continue Reading →
In ‘Backrooms’s Cursed Maze Of Abandoned Retail Architecture, Finding America Gone Wrong
The horror flick “Backrooms” originates from an unforgettable image: an endless maze of eerily abandoned, generic commercial spaces, punctuated by odd stacks of furniture, all wall-to-wall industrial carpet, drop-ceilings, buzzing…Continue Reading →
Horseshoe Crabs Nesting At Mouth Of Saugus River
Horseshoe crabs like to do their ancient, annual nesting/mating at the highest tide at the full moon or new moon in late May, early June. Which around these parts was…Continue Reading →
Tattoos: Ferdinand The Peaceful Bull
Photographer Ryan Williams of Granby arrived at the opening day tour of the exhibition “Under the Cork Tree: The Story of Ferdinand” at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book…Continue Reading →
‘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 →
Was Celebrated Picture Book ‘Ferdinand,’ A Pacifist/ Communist/ Socialist/ Fascist/ Gay Plot?
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 →