Waltham Mills is celebrating its 50th Open Studios the first weekend in November. 2026 Waltham Open Studios November 7–8, 2026 12 pm–5 pm Waltham Mills 144 Moody Street My studio: Building 18, 3rd floor Note: My studio will open both Saturday and Sunday, but I will only be present on Sunday. (Lindsey Hickey will […]
Beyond Deceptionality
Ann Carson (Photo: From an interview with Kevin McNeilly) After three hours in the theater watching You Can See Everything, I left with a fractured sense of reality. What was it I had just observed? That question is not a failure of attention or delivery, but the film’s remarkable achievement. Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos […]
Until They Aren’t
Omari K. Chancellor and Kalyne Ashley Coleman in The Huntington’s production of Purpose. (Photo: Marc J. Franklin) Two plays, currently on view in Boston, were written eighty years apart and yet are two versions of the same story. All My Sons, Arthur Miller‘s iconic 1947 drama, is at the Lyric Stage. Purpose, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘s Pulitzer […]
See More, Hear More, Feel More
Photo: Nile Scott Studios “Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modem life–its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness–conjoin to dull our sensory faculties…What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, […]
Pell Lucy: THE AMBIENTAL
Canopy Breach, by Dorothea Van Camp The Ambiental is a latest online exhibit for the Pell Lucy artist collective, now on view on Arsty.net. The exhibit will run through January 2027 and can be seen here. From the curatorial statement: “Ambiental is a Spanish and Portuguese term that describes what surrounds us. This mellifluous adjective-turned-noun […]
We Have Good Models. Let’s Use Them.
(Photo: The Bang Group) I admire an idea that can travel — one that moves from its native domain into a completely different context and arrives carrying new meaning. Darwin’s theory of evolution does this. So does quantum theory, still unsettling our assumptions about what reality is made of. Recently I encountered two more ideas […]
Containers and Convergences
I have written many times about the concept of the container, a notion I keep coming back to. The most familiar version is the human body, holding all that living matter and consciousness inside a remarkably fragile but durable satchel of skin. The variants are many. I have come to view containers as the “safety […]
Holding the Whole
August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (Photo by Benjamin Rose Photography) The “Hard Problem” — David Chalmers‘ term for the scientific struggle to explain consciousness — is increasingly entering the cultural conversation. We still don’t understand why physical brain processes give rise to subjective, first-person experience: the felt quality of seeing red, of grief, of […]
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Sarah Robinson and the Architecture of Resonance
It may be a case of selective viewing, but I feel sure there is a fundamental shift happening in how Western culture describes the connection between the mind, the body and the physical world. My primary interest areas are visual art, literature, cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, cultural theory, psychedelic studies/neuroscience, spirituality. And as wide ranging […]
The Ethics of Minimalism
We Had a World, at the Huntington Theater (Calderwood Pavilion) Photo: Annielly Camargo A noticeable shift is emerging in contemporary theater and cinema, one that values a stripped-down, elemental storytelling. And for many reasons, it feels less like an aesthetic choice and more like a cultural necessity. Joshua Harmon’s We Had a World (Huntington Theater, […]