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Greg Cook is an arts reporter and critic for WBUR.org and The Providence Phoenix. His writing has also appeared in The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Globe, Art New England, Juxtapoz Magazine, Art & Antiques, PoetryFoundation.org and several newspapers in suburban Boston. He is the founder of The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research, which won a 2009 Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.
Cook is a leader in fostering art making in the New England. He oversees the New England Art Awards, an annual open-source, community project to honor art made in the region. He organizes the “Quiet, Please” arts and cultures talks at the Malden Public Library. And his writings sparked a community effort that got Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts to relaunch its Maud Morgan Prize for local women artists in 2011 after the museum neglected to award it for five years.
Cook teaches at Montserrat College of Art. His own pictures have appeared in fancy publications like Nickelodeon magazine, Publishers Weekly and The Believer, and have received honorable mentions in the 2006 and ’07 editions of “The Best American Comics.” He’s exhibited his artwork in Italy, France, Canada, Abu Dhabi, the United States, and the bathrooms of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
Despite all this apparent liveliness, Wikipedia once declared him dead.
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Prefer Your Bugs Fried, Roasted Or Mashed? Artist Offers Taste Of Food's Future
March 06, 2014
“They kind of taste like a pumpkin seed or a sunflower seed,” artist John Osorio-Buck says. “They have this nutty flavor.”
MASS MoCA Plans To Double Its Size With $25.4 Million From State
March 06, 2014
Many credit the resurgence of North Adams over the past decade and a half to the museum.
Malcolm Rogers, Who Led MFA's Expansion, Announces Plans To Retire
February 28, 2014
Malcolm Rogers, who has spearheaded the Boston Museum of Fine Arts expansion, announced plans to retire after leading the museum since 1994.
The Sexy, Proto-Feminist Art Of Christina Ramberg's Tragically Short Life
February 27, 2014
Ramberg’s paintings of ladies in various states of undress and later of ominous mutant bodies, all charged with desire but also questioning the sexual packaging of women, made her one of the most extraordinary American artists to emerge over the past half century.
You Cannot Resist The Joy Of 'Disney On Ice'—So Don't Even Think About It
February 15, 2014
The skating spectacular is at TD Garden in Boston through Feb. 23.
Can Dudley Square Tower, Murals Spark A New Model Of Boston Public Art?
February 15, 2014
“This is what public art in the city could look like if we commission our own projects, if we had a percent-for-art program,” Boston Art Commission Director Karin Goodfellow says.
Is This The Best Impressionist Artwork At The MFA?
February 14, 2014
The Boston museum invited people go online and pick their their favorites from 50 works in the collection.
Benjamin Evans' Installations Are A Man's Man's Guide To (Failed) Romance
February 14, 2014
Evans is part of a wave of younger guy artists exploring masculinity today.
Impressionists Capture The Dawn Of Suburbia
February 13, 2014
Monet and friends depict the suburbs, as a place, but also as a state of mind—pastoral oases away from work.
Picturing The Olympics: A History Of The Games In 15 Posters
February 06, 2014
A century of Olympics posters illuminate changing tastes (from illustration to graphics and photography) and politics (war and peace).
