Books I Read In 2025
Here are most of the books I read (finished and unfinished) during 2025 in roughly the order I read them. Thanks to the Malden and Boston public libraries for free…Continue Reading →
Goodbye To Boston Cartoonist Dan Moynihan
Heartbreaking to hear the news this afternoon of Boston cartoonist and designer and my friend Dan Moynihan suddenly dying on Dec. 21–leaving behind his wife Cathy Moynihan and their 14-month-old…Continue Reading →
Goodbye, Cambridge Poet Charles Coe
Charles Coe, the poet and storyteller and teacher and musician (his beloved didgeridoo) and longtime arts administrator for the Massachusetts Cultural Council, was found dead in his Cambridge residence last…Continue Reading →
Wooden Folk Toys Meet Bauhaus Ballet In Lesley Barnes and Ross McAuley’s ‘Fashion Play’
“Wooden friends” began appearing in illustrator Lesley Barnes’s social media in 2019—along with her pop-up book “Bauhaus Ballet.” They were like flat, graphic, modernist geometric illustrations come to life. Some…Continue Reading →
Some Cartoonists To Check Out At Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo
Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo–aka MICE–is Dec. 7 and 8, 2024, at Boston University’s Fuller Building, 808 Commonwealth Ave., Brookline. Free admission. If this is the kind of coverage of arts,…Continue Reading →
Midcentury Gay Haven In Gloucester Revealed In Long Lost Ellsworth Kelly Drawing
Late last year, archivists made a dramatic discovery when paging through an old guest book at the Hammond Castle Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Long thought lost, the guest book—full of…Continue Reading →
‘Comics in Color Festival’ Showcases Artists Of Color
The “Boston Comics in Color Festival” showcased comics creators of color with a hall full of comics for sale, talks and live music at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic…Continue Reading →
The Children’s Books Of Celebrated Designer Seymour Chwast
In 1954, Seymour Chwast, along with a handful of friends he’d made while studying art and design at Cooper Union, founded the New York design shop Push Pin Studios. Along…Continue Reading →
At Boston’s Old North Church, Reprinting The Dangerous Ideas That Sparked A Revolution
Though the first printing press was imported from Europe into the Americas around 1554, to Mexico City, and Harvard got the first printing press in the English colonies in 1639,…Continue Reading →
Amidst ‘70s Boston Desegregation Protests, A Mom Investigates Her Daughter’s Disappearance, In Dennis Lehane’s New Novel
Recommended The folks in Southie might not have money, but at least they take care of their own. That’s the code of honor that steadies Mary Pat Fennessy at the…Continue Reading →