Yayoi Kusama, Creator Of ‘Infinity Rooms,’ Dies At 97
Yayoi Kusama, creator of sensational mirrored, hallucination-like, walk-in installations that she called “Infinity Rooms,” died Aug. 14 in a Tokyo…
David ‘Tuyo’ Schmitt’s Folksy Prints
David Schmitt, the Barcelona-based artist who works under the name Tuyo, draws on the basic shapes of folk art and…
Art Stays Here: Fighting To Preserve Artist Workspaces For 6 Years
It was terribly depressing when Humphrey Street Studios in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood was put up for sale in 2019—and seemed…
Earth Is A Sick Loved One In Donner And Yang’s ‘Fever Dreams’
As forest fires and floods seem to proliferate, how do we feel global warming in our weather? That’s one of…
‘Elephant Migration’ Sculptures Ask Us To See Wildlife As Family
“We do not share the earth with objects, but with other lives,” reads a sign at “The Great Elephant Migration”…
Hattie Grimm’s ‘Bird Puppet Parade’
“Just like the flock, our human bodies are designed to exist together. But we are out of practice,” observes Hattie…
Heard Of Elephant Sculptures Coming To Boston
The Great Elephant Migration–100 sculptures of “Indian elephants are migrating across the US to inspire the human race to share…
Ansis Puriņš: ‘I Missed Out On Saturday Morning Cartoons’
“I missed out on Saturday morning cartoons as a kid because I had to go to Latvian school,” artist Ansis…
Judith Klausner And The Cost Of Perfect Lawns
What is the cost of our quest for perfect lawns? Somerville artist Judith Klausner’s exhibition “There Goes The Neighborhood” is…
String And Shadow’s ‘Night At The Grand Opera’
“A single night at the Grand Royal Opera House, where industrialists, revolutionaries, the players of the opera house and the…
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Upside Down World Resurrection Pageant’
“Through all the world below / God is seen all around / Search hills and valleys / Through there she’s…
Hattie Grimm’s ‘Bird Puppet Parade’
“Just like the flock, our human bodies are designed to exist together. But we are out of practice,” observes Hattie…
Circa Combines Circus Acrobatics And Dance At Jacob’s Pillow
In the astonishing acrobatics and slinky aerialists and feats of strength, in the modern showgirls and strongmen of Australia’s Circa…
Photos: ‘Summer Solace’ By Janelle Gilchrist Dance Troupe
“Summer Solace,” a showcase of ballet and modern works presented by Boston’s Janelle Gilchrist Dance Troupe at Cambridge’s Foundry on…
‘Temple of Our Ancestral Dreams’ At Pao Arts Center
“This space could have become parking garage, but it didn’t,” Anita Yip explained as she presented “Still, We Gather” at…
‘L.V. Hull: Love Is a Sensation’
“Do not try to understand me, just love me,” said L.V. Hull (1942–2008). In small town Kosciusko, Mississippi, the Black,…
‘Baby Animals Festival’ At Hancock Shaker Village
On a recent sunny Saturday morning, Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, launched one of the great rites of spring…
Goodbye, Pearl Fryar, Topiary Gardener
In the early 1980s, Pearl Fryar began transforming his home in Bishopville, South Carolina, into a fantastic topiary garden, often…
Goodbye to Isaiah Zagar, Creator Of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens
Saddened to hear that Isaiah Zagar—creator of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, one of the great visionary art spaces of the world,…
Dazzling Light Restoration Of 1936 Art Deco Cambridge Storefront
Wow! You need to check this out in person: Newly restored architectural lights delineating the facade of First Church of Christ,…
Dirt Palace: Providence’s Feminist Art Collective Celebrates 25 Years
Twenty-five years ago, in a derelict library in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood, a group of women came together to found a…
Partial Solar Eclipse
Partial solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2028. (Greg Cook photo) If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures,…
Malden River: After The Downpour
A double rainbow appeared as the downpour subsided and the sun broke through the angry gray clouds on the evening…
Malden River: Birds Have Found An Oasis
Where the Malden River emerges from under Malden’s downtown, birds have found a small oasis hidden behind a wall of…
Freeing The Ware River
What does it mean to remove a dam that’s constrained a river for more than a century? What does it…
Malden River: To Try To Draw The Whole Thing
Convalescing just downstream of the Trash Trap on the Malden River. Near where the river begins, or at least where…
Herring Underwater At Mystic Lakes
Herring on their annual spring spawning run on June 12, 2026, just upstream of the Mystic Lakes Dam between Medford…
Ansis Puriņš: ‘I Missed Out On Saturday Morning Cartoons’
“I missed out on Saturday morning cartoons as a kid because I had to go to Latvian school,” artist Ansis…
Hans Rickheit’s Haunted Sexy Cyborg Worlds
Hans Rickheit is an excellent draftsman who creates comics set in unsettling erotic steampunk worlds of lithe young women and…
Tattoos: Ferdinand The Peaceful Bull
Photographer Ryan Williams of Granby arrived at the opening day tour of the exhibition “Under the Cork Tree: The Story…
Was Celebrated Picture Book ‘Ferdinand,’ A Pacifist/ Communist/ Socialist/ Fascist/ Gay Plot?
I first encountered the celebrated 1936 picture book “The Story of Ferdinand” not as a child, but as a young…
Keith Knight
By a lucky coincidence, we recently bumped into Keith Knight, the “K Chronicles” cartoonist and creator of Hulu’s “Woke,” at…
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.…
Hattie Grimm’s ‘Bird Puppet Parade’
“Just like the flock, our human bodies are designed to exist together. But we are out of practice,” observes Hattie…
Photos: St. Peter’s Fiesta In Gloucester
I’ve been documenting the St. Peter’s Fiesta in Gloucester for three decades now—but this time, the 99th year, as I’m recovering…
34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil And March
“Everyone we lost,” Nigel Griffith said, “..it is because of them we’re still here keeping up this fight.” He was…
Building ‘The Giant Puppet And People Making Mayhem Parade’
We recently bumped into Muffy Pendergast, who for some years now has organized “The Giant Puppet And People Making Mayhem…
A Visit To The 2025 Topsfield Fair
We paid a visit to the 207th Topsfield Fair, which runs from Oct. 3 to 13, 2025. Descended from an…
Photos: St. Peter’s Fiesta In Gloucester
At the start of summer in the last days of June, Gloucester celebrated its 98th annual St. Peter’s Fiesta—my beloved…
Photos: 19th Annual Honk Festival In Somerville
The 19th annual Honk Festival of Activist Street Bands took place in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts, from Oct. 4 to…
Photos: 2024 Somerville Porchfest
Somerville Porchfest is part hootenanny, part a giant open studios for bands. Inspired by an event in Ithaca, New York,…
Boston Rock History And Vintage Views Of Local Streets In Charles Daniels’s Photos
Charles Daniels always had one or more cameras with him—when he was strolling local streets; when he was emcee at…
‘Road To Ruane’ Remembers Legendary Boston Rock Impresario And Wild Man
“Billy Ruane walked into the room and he said, ‘I need an extra room for my birthday party. I think…
If You Could Play One Of the World’s Best Violins Which One Would You Choose?
On Monday afternoon, musicians from the Boston chamber orchestra A Far Cry were picking out violins to borrow for the…
Oscar-Winning Documentary ‘Last Repair Shop’: Repairing Instruments To Make People Whole Again
“The Last Repair Shop” is an astonishing, tender, heartbreaking, inspiring look behind the scenes at the expertise and love that…
‘Elephant Migration’ Sculptures Ask Us To See Wildlife As Family
“We do not share the earth with objects, but with other lives,” reads a sign at “The Great Elephant Migration”…
Heard Of Elephant Sculptures Coming To Boston
The Great Elephant Migration–100 sculptures of “Indian elephants are migrating across the US to inspire the human race to share…
Ansis Puriņš: ‘I Missed Out On Saturday Morning Cartoons’
“I missed out on Saturday morning cartoons as a kid because I had to go to Latvian school,” artist Ansis…
Christopher Frost’s Revolutionary War Insurgents
Under a 19-foot-tall granite obelisk at the center of Arlington’s Old Burying Ground, off Pleasant Street, are the bodies of…
Goodbye, Pearl Fryar, Topiary Gardener
In the early 1980s, Pearl Fryar began transforming his home in Bishopville, South Carolina, into a fantastic topiary garden, often…
Goodbye to Isaiah Zagar, Creator Of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens
Saddened to hear that Isaiah Zagar—creator of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, one of the great visionary art spaces of the world,…