Bread and Puppet Theater describes its new performance, “Gray Lady Cantata #9,” as a “meditation on grief, war, and resistance.” It’s touring the show—along with “The Possibilitarian Everything Imperatives Show”—from…Continue Reading →
Friends and admirers crowded into Gloucester’s Jane Deering Gallery a few weeks back for the opening reception of Willie Alexander’s exhibition “Goya’s head found on Half Moon Beach,” which runs…Continue Reading →
The 19th annual Honk Festival of Activist Street Bands took place in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, from Oct. 4 to 6, 2024. I’ve been photographing Honk since near the beginning.…Continue Reading →
For a decade, Greg Cook has been making pilgrimages to visionary art sites, folk art environments, and “yard shows” from Maine to Georgia to Louisiana to Minnesota—to photograph these places…Continue Reading →
Our friends Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus” on Cambridge Common on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. The show is part of a…Continue Reading →
The 30th anniversary Cambridge Carnival included a parade of masqueraders costumed in feathers, plumes, bright-colored silks, and satin with jeweled and hand-beaded designs from near Charles River to Central Square…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s “The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus” is a satirical spectacle of papier-mâché beasts and stilt dancers haunted by Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza.…Continue Reading →
The thrilling, bonkers Greasy Pole Contest increasingly brings attention to St. Peter’s Fiesta in Gloucester, the city’s annual kickoff off summer, a celebration of Gloucester’s Sicilian-American Catholic commercial fishing community,…Continue Reading →
“I come out of a dual background in illustration and abstract painting and have long sought ways to make figurative paintings that honor the aspirations of modernist abstraction,” artist and…Continue Reading →
“Herons are believed to be symbols of good luck and transformation,” Travis Coe, who co-directed “The Heron’s Flight” with Jennifer Johnson at Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield, Massachusetts, says at…Continue Reading →