John Wilson And The Art Of Black Dignity
Around the start of 1986, John Wilson wrapped the bust he’d sculpted of Martin Luther King Jr. in blankets and an old sleeping bag and placed the 3-foot-tall bronze head…Continue Reading →
Leonora Carrington Quit Her Family, Fled Nazis, And, In Mexico, Dreamed Up Mystical Worlds
In Leonora Carrington’s 1947 painting “Night Nursery Everything,” a giant golden woman with flowers in her hair smiles down at a pink dancer as a boy sits up in a…Continue Reading →
CW Roelle’s Drawings In Air
“I began drawing with wire in 1997 when, as a student at The Maryland Institute College of Art, I became frustrated with the separation between my hand and the line…Continue Reading →
Maria Molteni At The Intersection Of Basketball, Craft And Mysticism
Maria Molteni grew up playing basketball. “I think I’ve always felt really close to the process of shooting free throws,” Molteni says. “Any kind of meditative task is opening your…Continue Reading →
Some Cartoonists To Check Out At Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo–aka MICE–is Dec. 7 and 8, 2024, at Boston University’s Fuller Building, 808 Commonwealth Ave., Brookline. Free admission. If this is the kind of coverage of arts,…Continue Reading →
Spoke’s World AIDS Day Vigil To Remember Those We’ve Lost To AIDS
It was quiet at 8 Sunday morning at Spoke’s annual World AIDS Day: Day Without Art vigil at the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St., Boston. I…Continue Reading →
Surrealist Leonora Carrington Conjured In Double Edge Theatre’s Hallucinatory Bio-Play
“I am as mysterious to myself as I am to everyone else,” Leonora Carrington (played by Jennifer Johnson) says near the beginning of Double Edge Theatre’s “Leonora, La maga y…Continue Reading →
Bread Puppet’s ‘Meditation On Grief, War And Resistance’
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 →
Willie Alexander’s Glitter And Hot Pink Abstractions
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 →
Backyard Wonderlands: Photo Exhibit Documents People Who Transform Their Homes Into Visionary And Folk Art Worlds
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 →