The Making of Holiday Traditions
The 16 Christmases my partner Joe and I have shared have all had the same general theme. We spend Christmas day alone together at home in our pajamas. We eat, we drink, and we watch movies all day and night.
Year: 2016
An Afternoon at Le Laboratoire in Cambridge, MA
Taking a break from my daily Boston life, I rode the T to Cambridge last week to visit an unusual art gallery called Le Laboratoire. The friendly folks over at Le Lab don’t think of themselves so much as an art gallery, but rather as an “interdisciplinary culture lab.”
Morning Light in the City
Tuesday morning I needed to be at my SoWa Boston studio by 7 am. Someone was coming to remove a wall in the entryway of the studio. The low sun hitting the buildings caught my eye…
A Good Adventure in Design
Imagine a hotel whose hallway walls look like giant pieces of Wasa rye crisp crackers. Except that these walls don’t break apart like a Wasa rye crisp if you bump into them. If you lose your balance heading back to your room one night after a few drinks, you wouldn’t want to hit your head on them. They’re made of concrete. Sharp, jagged, hard as rock concrete.
A Miniature Boston
On the ninth floor of Boston City Hall, tucked away in a drab room with fluorescent light fixtures, is a miniature scale model of the city of Boston. I got to see it a few weeks ago while waiting for a public Design Commission meeting to start…
A Peaceful Gallery Encounter in SoWa
I recently bumped into a friend of a friend on Harrison Avenue in Boston. She was out having a “gallery day.”
Harrison Avenue, in the city’s South End — more specificially, in its SoWa Art + Design District — is an excellent place to have such a day…
A Fall Day Along Boston’s Greenway
One day last week, I left my studio in Boston’s SoWa Art + Design District and began walking toward the Rose Kennedy Greenway with a goal in mind. I wanted to see the “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” art installation by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
