Category: Chasing the Muse

Tony Award-winning play about cantankerous abstract expressionist Mark Rothko playing at Steeple Playhouse.

Stefanie Rocknak’s sculpture will be loaded with metaphysical metaphor and winks and nods to great works of literature. Some viewers will no doubt embrace it while others want things to be straightforward and no-nonsense.

New Bedford’s Carney and Ross used interpretations of rubies, emeralds and diamonds to create sparkle and glimmer in the Green Room.

New England Mosaic Society’s show at the Narrows is significant and thought-provoking. It ranges from the decorative to the contemplative and it swings from the readily frivolous to the deadly serious.

The new show features work from William Bradford, his photographers George Critcherson and John L. Dunmore, as well as Inuit and Indigenous artists and contemporary creatives.

Around 45 years ago, I met painter Craig Coggeshall for the first time. We became fast friends. His passing, which I had known was coming for quite a while, still shook me up.

For “Bad Andy,” the figures of folklore became a way of making sense of emotionally sterile spaces, imbuing them with symbols of transition, dread and ultimately, acceptance.

Exhibiting with Kim Barry at the Marion Art Center, Hoss is one of the people who helped make the New Bedford art community what it is.

With his exhibit at the New Bedford Art Museum, he cleverly illustrates his environmental sensibilities, as well as traversing into truly unanticipated subject matter. He is much more than the knot guy.

Twenty-five years is a big deal. And without hyperbole, this party may be the biggest bash downtown New Bedford has seen this century, perhaps ever. AHA! Started in 1999. On Thursday night, take some advice from Prince: “Party like it’s 1999!”