history As many of you know I have had studios all over the city of Boston. This also means that I have moved around a lot over the course of my career here. I had a studio I loved in Hyde Park for many years, a condo I bought into. The developer was, well let’s… (read more)
I lucked out with Elaine Reichek. She was in town for the unveiling of her facade project for the Gardner Museum. It’s taken from the correspondence between Mrs. G. and Henry James. David and his crew had just finished installing the piece when I met up with Elaine for a talk in the Living Room…. (read more)
I was so glad that I got the opportunity to reconnect with Dr. Jennifer Hall. She has long been an inspiration and a touchstone for me in my artistic practice and my teaching practice. Jen was recently made Professor Emerita of Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she taught for over 30 years. She… (read more)
I’ve always wanted to have a talk show. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum has a Living Room and because they are and have been so wonderful to me and many other artists, they have allowed me to come to Mrs. G’s house, and sit in the Living Room and have talks with artists and whomever… (read more)
At this fraught time, it is imperative that we demand accountability and action from our elected leaders. We have to tell them what we expect of them and then hold them to those expectations. Petitions are great, but they overshadow the important work of individual citizens going directly to their elected representatives for a redress… (read more)
There is a Reading Room set up at Gallery Kayafas as part of my exhibition there called Family Pictures. These are the texts I included: Going to Meet the Man (stories) by James Baldwin Without Sanctuary Lynching Photography in America by James Allen, essays by Hilton Als, John Lewis, Leon F. Litwack, and James Allen Lynching… (read more)
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives I went on… (read more)
I received a lot of feedback in response to “I Fit the Description…” Some of the emails and comments were down right hateful, so much so that I shut down comments on my blog and I stopped reading the emails. When I finally went back to them, I found a couple from a Girl Scout Troop leader… (read more)
Dushko Petrovich, Regionalism, Installation in Parque El Ejido, Quito, Ecuador, 2013 Steve Locke: It’s weird because I knew you before I knew your work. I think it was the Yvonne Rainer/Rob Storr talk at BU. Afterwards, we had a bit of a chat and you told me about PAPER MONUMENT and were sweet enough to send me a few… (read more)
This is the fourth in a new series of poems commissioned for Art and Everything After. Poets chose from a selection of new drawings called companions. Ms. Andersen selected the image above. A full size image can be seen here. HELL The little screens glow inside the rural house. I know the place in inches: My head’s a dead knock, my feet… (read more)