Bee paintings by Greg Cook
Here are a couple of banners that I painted last week–originally for use in the Gloucester Horribles Parade on July 3, 2015. They’re about bees pollinating edible plants. Pictured above…Continue Reading →
10 Ideas For How To Be An Artist And Parent
“I had a perfect plan,” said one mom in the audience of the “How To Be An Artist And Parent” talk that Somerville artist and dad Tim Devin and I…Continue Reading →
Boston Cultural Plan announcement from Mayor Walsh
Below is the entire text of the City of Boston’s announcement about it’s plans to create a Cultural Plan: MAYOR WALSH ANNOUNCES BOSTON CREATES Community driven process will create first-ever…Continue Reading →
New MFA director’s dad ‘despised’ lack of museum support for living, local artists
An open letter to new Museum of Fine Arts Director Matthew Teitelbaum: Congratulations on being named the next director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts—and welcome back to Boston. One…Continue Reading →
Greg Cook’s Snow Unicorn with Icicle Horn
Check out the snow unicorn with an icicle horn that I sculpted on Feb. 13 and that snow bear that I sculpted on Feb. 7 with generous help from Malden…Continue Reading →
Mike Lash’s ‘Ugly Paintings’
Mike Lash’s “stated purpose behind his art is to ‘make stuff, mostly stuff that has no real reason to exist, but now, they do exist,’” Patrick Collier writes in introduction…Continue Reading →
Harvard Art Museums director to step down
Thomas W. Lentz, who has lead the Harvard Art Museums since 2003, says he plans to step down on July 1.Continue Reading →
Concerned Citizen: Planned sculpture would be ‘wound’ to Bangor
A floating sculpture planned for Bangor, Maine, would be “a wound to the heart of the city,” charges Fritz Spencer of Old Town, Maine, the former editor of the Christian Civic League Record,…Continue Reading →
Beard broken off King Tut’s burial mask at Egypt museum
“Now you can see a layer of transparent yellow,” one conservator said of the botched repair to the golden burial mask of pharaoh Tutankhamun at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo,…Continue Reading →
Beth Urdang Gallery plans move
Beth Urdang Gallery says it will be closing its Newbury Street location in Boston on Jan. 31 and moving into the gallery building at 460 Harrison Ave., Boston, in “late…Continue Reading →