While I had vaguely heard of the Maypole dance over the years, the first one I experienced in person involved schoolchildren in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. My son had enrolled as a fifth grader in ...

Artist Kristi Malakoff is the creator of this brilliant paper installation depicting a scene of children dancing around a traditional Maypole. Constructed entirely from black paper and foam, the ...

Installation view of Nancy Spero: Unbound at the Colby College Museum of Art showing “Maypole: Take No Prisoners II” (2008) (The Nancy Spero and Leon Golub ...

For Guyanese of yesteryear, the merry month of May was hailed as ‘the beginning of summer’ for the locals in the tropical seasons of rainy and dry weather. Though lacking the Christmas spirit of ...