“You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world… The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimeter the way people look at reality, then you can change it.” –James […]
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Slant Dazzle: Pell Lucy at Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery
Pell Lucy artists come together again for a new exhibit at the Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery at Bristol Community College in Fall River Massachusetts, from October 31 through December 13, 2024. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 7 from 6-8pm. Information about the show can be found on the gallery website. (Also included, an […]
Waltham Open Studios, 2024
Waltham Open Studios, held on the first weekend in November, is happening this weekend. This is the 48th (I know, hard to believe) year it has been held. My studio is in Building 18, on the third floor. I hope you can stop by.
We’re All in the Room
Last year a group of us heard a presentation by Dario Robleto at the Fogg Museum. (More about that here.) Robleto is a refreshingly unpretentious artist who is doing his work without the sandbaggery of fads, posturing and artifice. His projects have gestated in the liminal space between science and art. Working under the canopy […]
Do What You Do, and Do it Well
Heather Cox Richardson’s rise to prominence is an “if you build it, they will come” story. The Boston College history professor (with a specialty in 19th century America) started posting informed political coverage on social media five years ago. Carefully written and loaded with relevant historical context, these dispatches were so well received that she […]
Not a Straight Line, More of a Curve
“At moments of historical crisis, when the necessity of choice generates fears and neuroses, men are eager to trade the doubts and agonies of moral responsibility for determinist visions, conservative or radical, which give them “the peace of imprisonment, a contented security, a sense of having at last found one’s proper place in the cosmos.” […]
Stories Within Stories: Romeo and Juliet at the American Repertory Theater
“We are building something immense together that, though invisible and immaterial, is a structure, one we reside within—or, rather, many overlapping structures. They’re assembled from ideas, visions and values emerging out of conversations, essays, editorials, arguments, slogans, social-media messages, books, protests, and demonstrations. About race, class, gender, sexuality; about nature, power, climate, the interconnectedness of […]
Slanted Stories
The Winter’s Tale (Photo courtesy of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company) Tell all the truth but tell it slant —Success in Circuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth’s superb surpriseAs Lightning to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind — This famous 8 line poem by Emily Dickinson is the […]
Pell Lucy: TRAVEL THE QUESTION
Biano all’acqua, by Silvia De Marchi (Fabriano paper, time, glue, 12 x 10 x 2.”) Pell Lucy’s summer exhibit, Travel the Question, considers the way a work of art comes into form as well as how we as viewers find our way into its mysteries. The show is now on Artsy and can be viewed […]
Ravenous for Living
We are living at a time when equality is an increasingly sacred value. While my political leanings are deeply aligned with that idea, it doesn’t apply to the world of human passions. I don’t want what I adore to be parceled out into equally sized lots. Because after all, we love what we love. “Even […]