Pictured above: MICE Comics Expo in the Before Times. (©Greg Cook 2019) After MICE (the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo) was cancelled last year to stem the spread of covid, the…Continue Reading →
Jef Czekaj”s latest humorous picture book for kids, “Little Ghoul Goes to School” (Balzer + Bray), conjures a school anxiety dream. “It’s a little monster, a Little Ghoul, that is…Continue Reading →
What do the candidates running for mayor of Boston propose for arts and culture in the city? I reviewed the websites of the five major candidates seeking to be elected…Continue Reading →
The 2021 International Sand Sculpting Festival at Revere Beach celebrated the 125th anniversary of the country’s first public beach. From Aug. 6 to 8, Sue McGrew, of Tacoma, Washington; Abe…Continue Reading →
The design for Boston artist Paul Goodnight and Larry Pierce’s temporary, printed mural “No Strings Detached” began with Goodnight’s row of animated musicians playing violin, stand-up bass and banjo. “The…Continue Reading →
The title of Eliot Porter’s first book of photography, “In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World,” was a quotation from the 19th century Transcendentalist author Henry David Thoreau of…Continue Reading →
In the fall of 1990, David Rogers was staying at a cousin’s farm in Vermont’s Green Mountains when he spotted a maple sapling bent from an ice storm the previous…Continue Reading →
Ruth Kohler first heard about the home of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein and his wife Marie in January 1983. Eugene had recently died and a friend, a retired police officer, brought samples…Continue Reading →
“Sea Walls: Artists for Oceans,” from the PangeaSeed Foundation in collaboration with local public art initiative HarborArts, has returned to Boston to commission 11 new ocean advocacy murals from July…Continue Reading →
“In Western art, it is common to have the theme of the mother and child but the theme of male bonding is much less common,” Edmund Barry Gaither, director and…Continue Reading →