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 →
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 →