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Judy Hensley McKie’s exhibition “Carving the Surface” at Boston’s Gallery NAGA from May 3 to June 1, 2004.
Art Greg CookMay 19, 2024 0

Judy Kensley McKie Shapes Furniture Like Animals To Bring It To Life

A dog becomes a table, an owl becomes a bronze vase, and a cast bronze tree holds up a glass tabletop in Judy Kensley McKie’s exhibition “Carving the Surface” at…Continue Reading →

Art Greg CookJuly 6, 2023 0

Artists Customize PinBox 3000 Cardboard Pinball Machine Kit

“We wanted to make something that was very kinetic in our design and that would empower people to have a tactile experience in playing the game,” explains Ben t. Matchstick,…Continue Reading →

Beauport Sleeper-McCann House in Gloucester: Stair Hall or Central Hall on ground floor. (©Greg Cook photo 2022)
Art Greg CookAugust 2, 2022 0

Beauport: Henry Sleeper’s Dream House Of Americana That Grew And Grew

“Mrs. Henry D. Sleeper of Beacon St. is building a beautiful summer cottage in Gloucester, near the site of the Colonial Arms hotel, which was burned during the late fall.…Continue Reading →

Leo Moss (d. 1936), Doll with tears, Macon, GA, ca. 1922
Art Greg CookApril 10, 2022 0

The Little Crying Girl In ‘Black Dolls’ At New-York Historical Society

The sad little girl with tears on her ebony face was crafted around 1922 by Leo Moss. It’s said the African-American carpenter and handyman from Macon, Georgia, began making dolls…Continue Reading →

Costumes from the 2021 Disney film "Cruella" on view at Boston’s School of Fashion Design. (Disney / photo: Aram Boghosian)
Design Greg CookMay 14, 2021 0

‘Cruella’ Costumes Showcased At Boston’s School of Fashion Design

Three costumes from the Disney film “Cruella,” created by Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan, will be showcased in the front window of the School of Fashion Design window at 136…Continue Reading →

STOP the Pandemic of Police Brutality Justice 4 George Ahmaud and Breonna in Boston, May 29, 2020.
Art Greg CookJune 8, 2020 0

Posters For Black Lives: Digital Graphics Of The Movement

As activism has spread across Massachusetts in response to Minneapolis Police murdering George Floyd on May 25, organizers have used online posters to share word of protests, marches, rallies and…Continue Reading →

Phase Zero Design's "Taj Mahal" in Gingerbread Design Competition and Exhibition, Boston Society of Architects Space, Dec. 17, 2019. (Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookDecember 24, 2019 0

Can You Recognize These Gingerbread Landmarks From Boston Architects?

Each year the Boston Society of Architects’ “Gingerbread Design Competition and Exhibition”–on view at BSA Space, 290 Congress St., Boston, from Dec. 7, 2019, to Jan. 2, 2020–invites local landscape…Continue Reading →

Lewis Wickes Hine, "The Dumps" Turned into a Playground, Boston, 1909. (Courtesy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum)
Design Greg CookAugust 7, 2019 0

With New York’s Central Park And Boston’s Emerald Necklace, Frederick Law Olmsted Imagined Democratic Utopias

“Big Plans: Picturing Social Reform,” at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from June 20 to Sept. 15, 2019, looks back a century and a half ago to a moment of…Continue Reading →

Constructing an Essex clamming skiff at the Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum in Essex, April 26, 2018. (Greg Cook)
Design Greg CookMay 17, 2019 0

A Century After They Built The Last Known Essex Clamming Skiff, Constructing A New One

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.  On a damp…Continue Reading →

J. R. R. Tolkien, Dust jacket design for "The Hobbit," April 1937, pencil, black ink, watercolor, gouache. (© The Tolkien Estate Limited)
Art Greg CookMay 7, 2019 0

How Tolkien Envisioned ‘The Hobbit’ And ‘Lord Of The Rings’

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 →

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