Art and activism across Boston and New England as I witnessed it in 2018. All photos copyright 2018 Greg Cook. Pictured at top: Double Edge Theatre’s “Leonora’s World,” Ashfield, Massachusetts,…Continue Reading →
The winners of The 2018 Dorrys—“Rhode Island’s independent culture awards”—were announced some weeks back. Matthew Lawrence of Law And Order Party, the weekly listing of happenings in (or very close…Continue Reading →
“Attention Massachusetts/I have ascended above you,” Franklin Einspruch writes across a watery painting of clouds that opens his book “Cloud on a Mountain: Comics Poems from Greylock.” Comics poetry is…Continue Reading →
“A code is defined as a system for communication or a set of rules to mark, represent or identify something,” curator Alexandria Smith writes about the exhibition “Coded,” on view…Continue Reading →
Shey Rivera—the artistic director of Providence art center AS220 since she took over from c0-founder Umberto Crenca in 2015—will depart the organization at the end of this year, AS220 announced…Continue Reading →
Macon Reed has said she created her immersive “Eulogy for the Dyke Bar” installation “to push people to really consider what it would mean to have these spaces—dyke and lesbian…Continue Reading →
In 1941, Shawn Powell, a young man from Oakland, crafted a purse (pictured above) while serving a homicide sentence in San Quentin State Prison in California. Using a meticulous technique…Continue Reading →
Twenty sections from the landmark AIDS Memorial Quilt frame this year’s 27th annual “Medicine Wheel” AIDS vigil. The event begins at 11:30 p.m. tonight and continues for 24 hours at…Continue Reading →
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh will veto the Boston Landmarks Commission’s vote to grant landmark status to the Citgo sign in Boston’s Kenmore Square after a real estate developer agrees to…Continue Reading →
Near the start of “Nine Moments for Now,” the riveting exhibition at the Cooper Gallery at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center in Cambridge through Jan. 21, is a hall of black…Continue Reading →