Joseph Yoakum (1890-1972) often jotted the locations of his abstracted landscape drawings in the top left of the pictures—the Florida Everglades, the Mississippi River, Utah canyons, New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain,…Continue Reading →
Photos from the annual Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival in Massachusetts. Fifteen artists compete in the Master Sand Sculpting Competition through July 28. Free admission. All photos copyright 2019…Continue Reading →
On Thursday, Marilyn Artus brought her national “Her Flag” women’s suffrage centenary celebration to Boston. To mark the hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed the right to vote…Continue Reading →
Boston artist Steve Locke says he is abandoning his proposed “Auction Block Memorial” for Boston’s Faneuil Hall due to criticism from the Boston branch of the National Association for the…Continue Reading →
Last weekend, we helped Mark Alston-Follansbee in the annual repainting the exterior of his Toyota Camry. Over the years, his cars have been painted with suns and eyeballs, flames and…Continue Reading →
I’m on a camping road trip to the American South to research visionary art environments and tourist traps, waterfalls and caves, history and creatures. I’m going to be posting photos…Continue Reading →
Hoping that “an investigation by an external party could provide greater objectivity and clarity,” Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has hired former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to look into…Continue Reading →
“Walks to the Paradise Garden: A Lowdown Southern Odyssey” by Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley and Guy Mendes “provides one last look at the artists and place-makers of the Southern United…Continue Reading →
A small crowd gathered in the field across from the Fitchburg Art Museum this afternoon to launch Otto Piene’s “Sky Art” inflatable sculpture “Paris Star” into the air. “It’s always different…Continue Reading →
“I grew up on Lenox Street, 69 B Lennox St., born and raised,” Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs tells me. “I was traveling between Lenox and Orchard Park housing projects.” He’d wait…Continue Reading →