Boston’s Gallery Kayafas To Close After 21 Years
This week was a week of lasts at Gallery Kayafas in Boston. “Sitting here stuffing envelopes for the LAST exhibits,” owner Arlette Kayafas posted to social media a few days…Continue Reading →
Duke Riley Turns Dazzling 19th Century Maritime Crafts Into Fossil Fuel Warnings For Today
“Proud Winner of the Guinness Book of World Records Largest Sailors Valentine in the World,” an 8-foot-tall pattern of radiating flower designs, is the showstopper at New York artist Duke…Continue Reading →
Photos: Mermaid Promenade at Cambridge Arts River Festival
The Mermaid Promenade kicked off the Cambridge Arts River Festival along the Charles River this morning. The parade, which I organized, featured numerous wonderful volunteer mermaids and mer-people, numerous puppets…Continue Reading →
Honoring The Enslaved And Healing At Ifé Franklin’s ‘Ancestor Processions’
“We’re there to lift up the spirits and the vibrations of the thousands of free and enslaved Africans and African-Americans that are buried there,” Ifé Franklin says of her “Egun…Continue Reading →
Midcentury Gay Haven In Gloucester Revealed In Long Lost Ellsworth Kelly Drawing
Late last year, archivists made a dramatic discovery when paging through an old guest book at the Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Long thought lost, the guest book—full of…Continue Reading →
William Schaff’s Visions Of Our Sordid Society Beset By Calamity
In some spiritual traditions the “Axis Mundi,” or axis of the world, is a place where heaven and earth come close together and can link. In William Schaff’s mixed media…Continue Reading →
Judy Kensley McKie Shapes Furniture Like Animals To Bring It To Life
A dog becomes a table, an owl becomes a bronze vase, and a cast bronze tree holds up a glass tabletop in Judy Kensley McKie’s exhibition “Carving the Surface” at…Continue Reading →
Boston Rock History And Vintage Views Of Local Streets In Charles Daniels’s Photos
Charles Daniels always had one or more cameras with him—when he was strolling local streets; when he was emcee at Boston Tea Party rock club in the late 1960s and…Continue Reading →
In Bitetti’s ‘Gardening Because Murder Is Wrong,’ Plants Help Her ‘De-Stress/De-Rage’
During covid, Kathleen Bitetti’s neighbor cut down trees that had shaded her South Boston yard, so she began filling the small dirt plot behind the triple decker in which she…Continue Reading →