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 →
Franklin Einspruch Distilling Everyday Life
“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 →
Goodbye To Visionary Artist Jon Sarkin
The visionary artist Jon Sarkin died in his storefront Fish City Studios at 39 Main St. in Gloucester on Friday afternoon, July 19. [Update July 26: I’m hearing a memorial…Continue Reading →