Finding Love And Grief At Stephen Huneck’s Dog Chapel
In front of the Dog Chapel is a sign reading: “Welcome/All Creeds/All Breeds/No Dogmas/Allowed.” A row of four sculptures of dogs of stand before the sign (and a cat sculpture…Continue Reading →
‘Be Safe Don’t Die!’ Temporary DIY Carnival Rides Reappear At MIT’s East Campus
This week students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s East Campus residence hall have been constructing DIY carnival rides. A plywood track for wooden handcarts circles around the courtyard between the…Continue Reading →
Stephen Leakos Purposely Provokes In Skowhegan: ‘They Would Like Me To Be Gone’
The sign that Stephen Leakos put up on the front of his Skowhegan Downtown Art Gallery (“Est. 1999”) and Leakos Auction (“Est. 1964”) in Skowhegan, Maine, read: “A Provocative Painting…Continue Reading →
Photos: Southern Journey: Visionary Art, Tourist Traps, Critters
I’m on a camping road trip to the American South to research visionary art environments and tourist traps, waterfalls and caves, history and creatures. I’m going to be posting photos…Continue Reading →
‘Walks To The Paradise Garden’: A Long Lost Story Of Pilgrimages To Folk Artists And Visionary Worlds
“Walks to the Paradise Garden: A Lowdown Southern Odyssey” by Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley and Guy Mendes “provides one last look at the artists and place-makers of the Southern United…Continue Reading →
Plans Underway To Resurrect Waterbury’s Holy Land USA
It was drizzling lightly on Thursday afternoon, a few days before Easter, when we drove up to Holy Land USA in Waterbury, Connecticut. The dilapidated Roman Catholic shrine and tourist…Continue Reading →
Hershey’s Chocolate World: Riding The Free Chocolate Tour
Is it a roller coaster? “No,” replies the patient ride attendant at the free, 30-minute “Hershey’s Chocolate Tour” at Hershey’s Chocolate World in the company town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Is…Continue Reading →
Visiting The ‘Happy Place’ Selfie Playground With A Skeleton, A Rock Band And An Improbable Poet
Happy Place—the Instagram selfie playground—is coming to Boston after pop-ups in Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto. If you want to understand what it means to be alive in America at…Continue Reading →
The Plastic Garden Along The Saugus Bike Trail
Just north of Laurel Street, along a dirt section of the “Bike to the Sea” Northern Strand Community Trail in Saugus, Massachusetts, is a garden that’s always in bloom. Located…Continue Reading →
Celebrate Halloween In Salem’s Curious 1630 ‘Pioneer Village’
Salem, Massachusetts, is a city filled with curious attractions, but one of the most curious is “Pioneer Village: Salem in 1630.” Billed as “America’s First Living History Museum,” it was…Continue Reading →