Juneteenth, June 19, 2026, will also be Napoleon Jones-Henderson Day in the City of Boston, after the Boston City Council unanimously adopted an official resolution offered by Councilor At-Large Julia Mejia…Continue Reading →
“One of the things that makes us uncomfortable is the history of violence, but the 250th [anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence] is all about the celebration…Continue Reading →
Lately, Clara Wainwright–the legendary Cambridge and Gloucester quilter and installation artist who founded The Great Boston Kite Festival in 1969 and Boston’s First Night in 1976–became concerned about the safety…Continue Reading →
Muskrat! Was convalescing while chatting with a friend along the Saugus River, just upstream of the Saugus Iron Works, on a recent afternoon. We got quiet for a while. And…Continue Reading →
“Do not try to understand me, just love me,” said L.V. Hull (1942–2008). In small town Kosciusko, Mississippi, the Black, female, self-taught artist used televisions and toys and bottles and…Continue Reading →
“Have Faith for You Have Always Been Loved” read streamers curling across a 2026 mixed-media painting in JooYoung Choi’s exhibition “Adventures of the Quantum Soup Surfer” at Amherst College’s Mead…Continue Reading →
The horror flick “Backrooms” originates from an unforgettable image: an endless maze of eerily abandoned, generic commercial spaces, punctuated by odd stacks of furniture, all wall-to-wall industrial carpet, drop-ceilings, buzzing…Continue Reading →
Horseshoe crabs like to do their ancient, annual nesting/mating at the highest tide at the full moon or new moon in late May, early June. Which around these parts was…Continue Reading →
Photographer Ryan Williams of Granby arrived at the opening day tour of the exhibition “Under the Cork Tree: The Story of Ferdinand” at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book…Continue Reading →
“This space could have become parking garage, but it didn’t,” Anita Yip explained as she presented “Still, We Gather” at Metropolitan Courtyard on Oak Street, in Boston’s Chinatown, on May…Continue Reading →