COSMOS Feature Articles
400+ for Gloucester
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 …
Dear Papa …
In September, the Dry Salvages Festival celebrated T. S. Eliot's early years summering in Gloucester, and their influence on his body of poetry. Included in the program was a collection of artifacts, many borrowed from Harvard's Houghton Library and displayed in the Cape Ann Museum Library. …
Reflections on the Armory Show, 2022
Gordon Massman
On September 9, 2022, somewhere around noon, with VIP Pass in hand (issued to me by my sales rep for Art in America Magazine in appreciation for my purchasing an ad of my own), I entered, through a bank of chrome and plate glass doors, …
Willie ‘Chile’ Alexander
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 ...
An Artistic Trek to the Isle of Sardinia
Many of our regional artists will travel beyond Cape Ann, to add additional extraordinary vistas to their portfolios. Lynn Maguire, a well-known member of the local cultural scene, along with 14 other artistic travelers ...
To Ipswich in Search of Arthur Wesley Dow
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. …
Foreign correspondent Part 2
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. ...
Foreign Correspondent Part 1
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, ...
Interview with Gordon Massman
Chris Munkholm
Last December, COSMOS met with Gordon Massman in his Rockport studio, for a firsthand look at his immense canvases of color and forms. Our chat began with the obvious question, how did a poet transform into a painter? Subsequent to the visit, Gordon followed up with introspective commentary …
