Saddened to hear that Isaiah Zagar—creator of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, one of the great visionary art spaces of the world, as well as the creator of many mosaic murals across…Continue Reading →
“Black Futures: How to See in Total Darkness 2.0” at Salem State University’s Winfisky Gallery in Salem, Massachusetts, from Jan. 20 to Feb. 20, 2026, grew out of a 2023 exhibition…Continue Reading →
Janet Echelman is probably the most successful living artist affiliated with Greater Boston. She and her team at Studio Echelman, based in Brookline, have advanced fiber art into the arena…Continue Reading →
The late 1960s drawings of dazzling weirdo psychedelic Chicago artist Karl Wirsum create pop icons. His neon electric free-association visionary style is astoundingly unique, bringing to mind “Space Invaders” video…Continue Reading →
Heartbreaking to hear the news this afternoon of Boston cartoonist and designer and my friend Dan Moynihan suddenly dying on Dec. 21–leaving behind his wife Cathy Moynihan and their 14-month-old…Continue Reading →
Revered Roxbury artist Napoleon Jones-Henderson died Saturday, Dec. 6, a City of Boston staffer tells me. He’d long been ill with cancer. He was an eminence. He was so cool.…Continue Reading →
Wow! You need to check this out in person: Newly restored architectural lights delineating the facade of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Reading Room at 23 Church St., Cambridge, turn the…Continue Reading →
“Everyone we lost,” Nigel Griffith said, “..it is because of them we’re still here keeping up this fight.” He was kicking off the 34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil at…Continue Reading →
“Wooden friends” began appearing in illustrator Lesley Barnes’s social media in 2019—along with her pop-up book “Bauhaus Ballet.” They were like flat, graphic, modernist geometric illustrations come to life. Some…Continue Reading →
Twenty-five years ago, in a derelict library in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood, a group of women came together to found a feminist art collective / feminist artist-run space that they came…Continue Reading →