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"Fashioned by Sargent" at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2023 to 2024. (Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Art Greg CookJanuary 12, 2024 0

In John Singer Sargent’s Dashing Gilded Age Portraits, Clothes Signal Prestige, Wealth, Power

The thrill of “Fashioned by Sargent” is 19th century society portrait painter John Singer Sargent’s dashing skill with a brush. I always think of him as an incredibly sure-handed marksman—each…Continue Reading →

Gary Gregory of the Printing Office of Edes & Gill, in the 1715 Clough House o the campus of Boston's Old North Church, Aug. 13, 2023. (©Greg Cook photo)
Books Greg CookSeptember 5, 2023 0

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 →

Procession during the annual Feast of the Madonna Della Cava in Boston's North End, Aug. 13, 2023. (©Greg Cook photo)
Parades Greg CookSeptember 5, 2023 0

Feast Of The Madonna Della Cava In Boston’s North End

The Society of the Madonna Della Cava held their 103 anniversary Feast in Boston’s North End on Aug. 11 to 13, with a procession of a banner of the saint…Continue Reading →

J’Ouvert dawn parade during Boston’s Caribbean-American Carnival, Aug. 26, 2013. (©Greg Cook photo)
Parades Greg CookAugust 26, 2023 0

Photos: J’Ouvert Dawn Parade At Boston Caribbean Carnival

J’Ouvert means “breaking of the dawn,” according to organizers of Boston’s annual Caribbean-American Carnival. The Carnival parade, held this afternoon, is marking its 50th year. But the day began with…Continue Reading →

Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Travel Album: Spain and Portugal, Volume II, 1888.
Art Greg CookMarch 5, 2023 0

What Isabella Stewart Gardner Saw On Her Travels

After the death of their 20-month-old son Jackie in 1865, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack sought solace by traveling the world by boat, train and foot. They traveled…Continue Reading →

Kathy Bitetti, "What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams." - Werner Herzog, #2. 3.28.21; 8 1⁄2 “ l x 6 1⁄2 “ h; Mediterranean.
Art Greg CookMay 9, 2022 0

Kathy Bitetti’s ‘The Sea Hates A Coward’ Collages

“These works are small scale visual odes to the power and terror of the ocean,” Boston artist Kathy Bitetti writes of her exhibition of collages “The Sea Hates a Coward”…Continue Reading →

Wake Up the Earth Festival parade, May 7, 2022. (©Greg Cook photo)
Parades Greg CookMay 7, 2022 0

Photos: Wake Up The Earth Festival

Photos of the Wake Up the Earth Festival at South-West Corridor Park at Stony Brook in Jamaica Plain, Boston, today. The festival was founded in 1979 to celebrate a grassroots…Continue Reading →

Moss installation by Heidi Schork and Jerome Jones at Boston's Jamaica Pond to celebrate Frederick Law Olmsted's 200th birthday on April 26, 2022. (Courtesy Heidi Schork)
Art Greg CookApril 27, 2022 0

Olmsted’s 200th Birthday Remembered With Moss Installation At Jamaica Pond

“Gradually and silently the charm comes over us; we know not exactly where or how” reads a moss installation by Heidi Schork and Jerome Jones at Boston’s Jamaica Pond, quoting…Continue Reading →

Sweetbay magnolias (Magnolia virginiana) in seed at the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, Oct. 16, 2021. (©Greg Cook photo)
Nature Greg CookOctober 17, 2021 0

Magnolias In Fruit At Arnold Arboretum

For some months now, we’ve been studying the Great Magnolia Swamp at Ravenswood Park in Gloucester, which is overseen by The Trustees of Reservations, for a documentary video we’re developing.…Continue Reading →

Janet Zweig's “What Do We Have in Common?" on view at Boston Common, Oct. 11, 2021. (©Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookOctober 17, 2021 0

Janet Zweig’s ‘What Do We Have In Common?’ On Boston Common

“Who owns the atmosphere?” “Who owns the street?” “Who owns the power?” “Who owns community?” These are some of the questions written on small, flat boxes arrayed across the lawn…Continue Reading →

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