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Carnival season is upon us – in the Christian calendar, that’s the period between the Epiphany and Lent, but most cultures celebrate it as Lent approaches in February. It’s a time to cut loose before you buckle down. Feast before … Continue reading →

My family took the Polar Bear Plunge on New Year’s Day. They are braver than I, who chose to document the event.

In today’s Globe, a profile of Warren and Lucia Prosperi. Warren is best known as a painter of commissioned portraits (and so not well known in the art world). He and Lucia, his wife, undertook to create an elaborate, historically … Continue reading →

In today’s galleries column, “The Figurative Landscape” at ACME Fine Art hopscotches through a century of Provincetown’s representational painters, each responding in his own way to Modernism; furniture maker Garry Knox Bennett shows off his bling, lamps, and tables at … Continue reading →

Put one under your chin and if there’s a reflection, that means you like butter. Pretty much everyone likes butter, except those who have beards. I remember plucking buttercups with my nieces when they were tiny and diagnosing them as … Continue reading →

Last Thursday, in a mist that occasionally thickened to rain, I was working on a story at MIT. My host took me out onto Killian Court, MIT’s main green, to show me some art. The grass was perfect, manicured but … Continue reading →

May 1, and it’s still early spring in Seekonk, Mass. Buds are on the verge of blossoming. The armature of the forest – trunks, branches – is still in evidence. Baltimore Orioles are singing. Hawks are hunting. A small rabbit … Continue reading →