In the 1990s, when Boston photographer Craig Bailey began taking the portraits that would become “The Faces of AIDS”—10 black and white photos on view at Medicine Wheel in Boston…Continue Reading →
Here is Wonderland’s guide to the best museum exhibitions to see around New England this summer…. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate,…Continue Reading →
The Legoland Discovery Center in Somerville is routing on the Boston Bruins in their Stanley Cup pro hockey championship run against the St. Louis Blues with Lego depictions of the…Continue Reading →
Updated with May 31, 2019, statements from MFA. Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts says it has banned two visitors for making racist comments to seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y.…Continue Reading →
“No food, no drink, and no watermelon,” seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy reported that a staffer at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts told the more than…Continue Reading →
The artist Otto Piene was 15 when his entire class at his school in Lübbecke, Germany, was drafted into the Wehrmacht. The conscription of kindsoldaten (“child soldiers”) into the military…Continue Reading →
May 18 to 15, 2019: Pictured above: Revere Beach Kite Festival, May 17, 2015. (Greg Cook) If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please…Continue Reading →
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston’s Barr Foundation. As darkness settled…Continue Reading →
The year after the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, Life magazine asked Gordon Parks to travel to Alabama to photograph the lives of African-American families in the Jim Crow South. For…Continue Reading →
In the fall of 1936, as the first edition of “The Hobbit” was in production, its author, J.R.R. Tolkien, gave his publisher a series of maps that he’d drawn to…Continue Reading →