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 →
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: 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 →
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 →
‘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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →