Showing posts with label museumgoing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label museumgoing. Show all posts
01 July 2026

“The possibility of rendering Bryant and Drake’s relationship in a graphic novel”

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Looking at the history of the new Charity and Sylvia graphic novel by Tillie Walden might shed light on the brewing controversy over its d...
30 July 2024

“The Dorothy Paintings” and More in South Yarmouth

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The Cultural Center of Cape Cod is hosting a summer celebration of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz . The executive director of the institution,...
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17 April 2024

“Outside the Box” Opening Reception in Jamaica Plain, 21 April

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With friends from the Boston Comics Roundtable, I’m helping to organize an exhibit of comics art in the gallery of the Footlight Club, Amer...
22 October 2020

The “Thomas Nast” Art Team, Part 3

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Yesterday’s Boston Globe praised the approach of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s “Thomas Nast: A Life in Cartoons” online exhibit:...
17 October 2020

The “Thomas Nast” Art Team, Part 2

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With the next set of pictures for “Thomas Nast: A Life in Cartoons,” we got into the political part of his career. And the three cartoonist...
15 October 2020

The “Thomas Nast” Art Team, Part 1

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Here’s commentary on the “Thomas Nast: A Life in Pictures” web exhibit and how the pictures came together. The exhibit starts with a portr...
09 October 2020

Taking Thomas Nast’s Life Online

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It was disappointing to learn, as I described recently , that the cartoon biography of Thomas Nast I’d worked on since this spring would not...
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06 October 2020

Making Space for Thomas Nast

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Early this year, folks at the Massachusetts Historical Society contacted me and colleagues in the Boston Comics Roundtable and invited us ...
27 November 2019

The Busytown Neighborhood in New-York

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Every December the New-York Historical Society lays out a big model train set to visit, and this year’s design celebrates the centenary of...
25 May 2017

The Missing McCloskeys

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Tonight I took in the Robert McCloskey exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts through 18 June. And I realized I deeply know only half t...
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02 December 2015

William Pène du Bois’s Work Before It’s Gone

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One of the children’s-book author-illustrators I really liked when I was young was William Pène du Bois. I got deep into his catalogue. Th...
01 July 2014

Beyond Their Comprehension

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From Tim Grove’s A Grizzly in the Mail and Other Adventures in American History (University of Nebraska Press, 2014): During my time at...
29 May 2014

From Spring Heel Jack to Batman

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Among the ephemera on display in the “Comics Unmasked: Art and Anarchy in the UK” exhibit at the British Library is a penny-dreadful tale...
03 April 2014

“Book on the Charles” in Belmont through 17 May

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The Belmont Galley of Art is featuring an exhibit of work by local children’s-book illustrator for the local children’s-book publisher Ch...
15 October 2013

Miss Piggy Goes Shopping for Shoes

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From the Smithsonian magazine’s blog : To welcome Miss Piggy [to the national collection], Smithsonian magazine’s editors treated her to...
14 October 2013

SCBWI New England’s New Media Day, 19 Oct.

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On Saturday, 19 October, I’ll be at SCBWI New England ’s New Media Day , a series of presentations and panels designed for published autho...
11 October 2013

OIP Derangement Syndrome Not Shut Down

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The ongoing House Republican shutdown of the federal government has produced new manifestations of OIP Derangement Syndrome in the form of ...
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08 October 2013

Oz at the Farnsworth, Opening 12 Oct.

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The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, is about to open a new exhibit: “The Wonderful World of Oz—Selections from the Willard Carro...
09 October 2012

The Ruby Slippers Go on the Road

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The Smithsonian is lending its pair of ruby slippers from MGM’s Wizard of Oz to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for an exhibit o...
05 June 2012

Oz Museum and Opera in the Works

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This Boston Globe interview with illustrator Bob Staake alerted me to work on an opera based on L. Frank Baum ’s The Road to Oz . Googling...