Bing McGilvray
There is a singular vitrine containing sixteen paper mâché figurines by Harry Martin (1927-1984} at CAM’s Campus on the Green in the Janet and William Ellery James Gallery. It might go unnoticed, pushed aside by …

Bing McGilvray
Jim Dunn, poet laureate of the COSMOS, is amidst a poetic trifecta with two books just published and a third on the way. Exemplified in these three volumes …

Bing McGilvray
Who’s Ed Sanders? Unfortunately, at age 85, after an extraordinary career, he remains under the radar for most people. …

Bing McGilvray

In 1968, at age 20, when Richard Emmanuel first opened the doors to The Church, his center for the exploration and discussion of all things theological, diagonally across E. Main St. …

Bing McGilvray

Two superb solo shows of black and white photographs have recently opened at the Jane Deering Gallery:  I Wish That I Could Show You Everything, by Paul Cary Goldberg, and I Spy/A Bird's Eye, by Antony Ohman. …

Bing McGilvray

Above the Fold is a landmark exhibition. Over 200 Gloucester Daily Times photographs, from 1973 – 2005, are now on dazzling display at the Cape Ann Museum. These photos were carefully selected from the over 1 million that were donated to the CAM Archives by the North of Boston Media Group, …

Mooney’s Manifesto is Greg Gibson’s new book, a roman à clef, fictionalized version of Greg’s haunting life experiences. And yes, the best damned novel I’ve read in a long time. Like few characters of fiction ever could, Mooney got to me. Now I cannot get him out of my head. …

Last Halloween, I downloaded an app: Dream.ai – since then I’ve made/saved over 3000+ ‘picreations’ on my phone, having rejected 10 x more in the process. I continue to be astonished by these bizarre, mysterious, highly sophisticated pics. Simply tap-tap-tap in a few words, and virtually instantly …

Unless you’ve been hiding under a large rock in Stage Fort Park, you know by now that in 2023 Gloucester will celebrate the 400 years since the ‘discovery’ of this unique port by the not-so-altruistic speculators of the Dorchester Company, a colonialist conglomerate of Puritan merchants and traders …

7/7  Received an email with several pics from Willie: We are here in Valparaiso on top of this steep hill, the green one in the middle is our AirBnB /// this section of town is really decorated /// holy crap!! Taking tons of street pics ...

A glorious June afternoon, Spring in full bloom, overcast but balmy, a perfect day for a joy ride. There is no nicer journey, while staying close to home, than to picturesque Ipswich. …

The high-speed Eurostar rail, which connects France and England via tunnel under the Channel, is a sleek, efficient marvel of modern engineering, imagination, construction, and cooperation. Paris to London in about two hours. ...

Spent a magical few days visiting David and his indispensable partner JP at their secluded, farm-country home nestled in a small pocket of Normandy. In the brief three years since moving in, throughout the global pandemic, ...