“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 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 →
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 →
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 →
“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 →
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 →
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 →
“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 →
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 →
“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 →