‘As We Rise’: Photos Of The ‘Beauty And Power Of Black Life’
As a boy, growing up in Windsor, Canada, Kenneth Montague’s parents took him to art exhibits in Windsor and across…
‘Divine Providence’: Bert Crenca’s Love Affair With The City In All Its Beautiful Messiness
Over the years, Bert Crenca has made lots of art—music and performances, sculptures and wild paintings of people and things…
Artistic Responses To Inequities In Cancer Care For People Of Color
“My work has a lot of circles, representing infinity. They just keep going and going and going. And that’s what…
Carlos Reyes’s Minimalist Monuments To Lost Gay Clubs
In Carlos Reyes’s one-room exhibition, “18,” at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge from Oct. 27, 2023, to March 10,…
Shane Drinkwater’s ‘Cosmic Cartographies’
The paintings in “The Cosmic Cartographies of Shane Drinkwater,” which were at Calvin-Morris Gallery in New York from Sept 14…
Martha Friend Brings ‘Blue’ To Somerville Museum
“Blue” at the Somerville Museum is a dream pairing of curator and theme. The group exhibition—on view from Sept. 21…
Gu Wenda’s ‘United Nations’ Of Hair
Chinese born, New York- and Shanghai-based artist Gu Wenda “United Nations,” at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum from April 1 to…
Giant Troll Takes Over Thomas Saltsman’s Marblehead Driveway
Architect Thomas Saltsman, of the Boston firm SaltsmanBrenzel, has become a sensation for the giant installations that have taken over…
In Mystical Installations, Saya Woolfalk Imagines ‘Utopian Possibilities Of Cultural Hybridity’
For years, Saya Woolfalk’s artworks have detailed her imaginings of the “Empathics,” her “fictional race of women who are able…
Giant Troll Takes Over Thomas Saltsman’s Marblehead Driveway
Architect Thomas Saltsman, of the Boston firm SaltsmanBrenzel, has become a sensation for the giant installations that have taken over…
Wonderlands: Visionary And Folk Art Sites Across The U.S.
For several years now, I’ve been making pilgrimages to visionary sites across the United States. Below are a selection of…
Ted Degener Has Spent 50 Years Photographing Creators Of Visionary Art Environments
For more than five decades, Ted Degener—who lives near Cornish, New Hampshire—has driven across the United States photographing more than…
Martin Prekop’s Mirror House Is For Sale
The problem was the view. “If you looked out the bathroom window, you looked onto a brick wall,” the artist…
At Old Sturbridge Village, 1830s America Comes Alive With Chickens, Sheep, Cows, Pigs
Part of the fun of an old timey living-history museum like Old Sturbridge Village is the feeling that you’ve stepped…
Beauport: Henry Sleeper’s Dream House Of Americana That Grew And Grew
“Mrs. Henry D. Sleeper of Beacon St. is building a beautiful summer cottage in Gloucester, near the site of the…
Photos: Honk Parade From Somerville To Cambridge
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, arrived in Somerville and Cambridge this weekend. Begun here in 2006, the…
Puerto Rico’s Agua, Sol y Sereno Performs With Boston’s Hyde Square Task Force
The theater troupe Agua, Sol y Sereno from Puerto Rico performed and paraded with youth from Boston’s Hyde Square Task…
Feast Of The Madonna Della Cava In Boston’s North End
The Society of the Madonna Della Cava held their 103 anniversary Feast in Boston’s North End on Aug. 11 to…
Photos: J’Ouvert Dawn Parade At Boston Caribbean Carnival
J’Ouvert means “breaking of the dawn,” according to organizers of Boston’s annual Caribbean-American Carnival. The Carnival parade, held this afternoon,…
Photos: Provincetown Carnival Parade: Land Of Toys
Provincetown’s 45th annual Carnival Parade danced down Commercial Street from the Harbor Hotel in the East End to the Coast…
St. Rocco Festival Honors Catholic Saint Of Protection Against Illness
In 1929, a group of Italian-Catholic Immigrants formed the Saint Rocco Fraternal Society in the Edgeworth section of Malden, Massachusetts,…
At Boston’s Old North Church, Reprinting The Dangerous Ideas That Sparked A Revolution
Though the first printing press was imported from Europe into the Americas around 1554, to Mexico City, and Harvard got…
Amidst ‘70s Boston Desegregation Protests, A Mom Investigates Her Daughter’s Disappearance, In Dennis Lehane’s New Novel
Recommended The folks in Southie might not have money, but at least they take care of their own. That’s the…
Christian Robinson’s Books Share The Message Art Gave Him: You Matter
“It’s important for me to tell stories that reflect the diverse world that we live in,” picture book illustrator and…
Colleen Michaels Debuts ‘Prize Wheel’ Poetry Collection
Colleen Michaels, founder and host of the Improbable Places Poetry Tour, debuted her first poetry collection “Prize Wheel” (Small Bites…
‘Immersive Storytelling’: Primer For Making The Audience’s Dreams Come True
The idea of “Adventure Thru Inner Space” at California’s Disneyland was that riders were miraculously shrunk down to the size…
Paintings Of New England Transgender Children At Boston Children’s Museum
“I believe in art as a means of materializing visions of liberation, healing from trauma, and manifesting change, at both…
Listening For Bats At Mount Auburn Cemetery
The group of nine of us began looking and listening for bats at Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Cemetery as night fell…
Herring Run At Horn Pond
Herring run at Horn Pond, Woburn, Massachusetts. In 2018, new fish ladders and spillways allowed herring to bypass dams on…
Spring At Garden In The Woods
Garden in the Woods is a 45-acre botanic garden operated by the Native Plant Trust in Framingham, Massachusetts. With more…
Pig Racing, Giant Pumpkins And Oxen At The Topsfield Fair
The annual Topsfield Fair in Topsfield, Massachusetts, from Sept. 30 to Oct. 10, 2022, offers giant pumpkins, racing pigs, an…
Bike To The Sea | Rail-Trail From Everett To Lynn
Join us for Bike To The Sea’s 2022 ride along the Northern Strand Community Trail, from Everett’s Madeline English School…
Maquoketa Caves | Video Tour
Join us as we visit Maquoketa Caves State Park, 25 miles west of the Mississippi River in northeast Iowa, with…
Puerto Rico’s Agua, Sol y Sereno Performs With Boston’s Hyde Square Task Force
The theater troupe Agua, Sol y Sereno from Puerto Rico performed and paraded with youth from Boston’s Hyde Square Task…
Little Amal, Giant Puppet Depicting Refugee Girl, Begins Journey Across U.S.
Little Amal, the internationally famous 12-foot-tall puppet depicting a 10-year-old Syrian refugee girl, debuted in Boston aboard the three-masted schooner…
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Heart Of The Matter Circus’ In Cambridge
Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater brought its “The Heart of the Matter Circus” to Cambridge Common on Saturday as part…
Bread & Puppet Circus Coming To Cambridge, Lawrence This Weekend
This weekend Bread and Puppet Theater begins a tour of its “The Heart of the Matter Circus” with shows in…
Bread & Puppet Performs ‘Inflammatory Earthling Rants’ On New England Tour
“Earthlings are now aflame and consequently need inflammatory rants, directed against the arsonist: Western Civilization and its incompetent government,” Bread…
The Puppetry Of ‘Dragons and Mythical Beasts’
How does “Dragons and Mythical Beasts” from the UK’s Nicoll Entertainment make its troll and unicorn and, of course, dragons…
MLK Memorial ‘The Embrace’ Unveiled At Boston Common
“This work is really about the capacity for each of us to be enveloped in love, and I feel enveloped…
Deceased Beech Tree Turned Into Statue In Somerville Park
When a massive, old European beech tree at Somerville’s Symphony Park declined into disease, the city’s Parks and Open Space…
Rob ‘ProBlak’ Gibbs’ ‘Breathe Life Together” Mural On Boston’s Greenway
“My vision is to add to Boston’s skyline in a way that elevates the voices and work of those who’ve…
Olmsted’s 200th Birthday Remembered With Moss Installation At Jamaica Pond
“Gradually and silently the charm comes over us; we know not exactly where or how” reads a moss installation by…
Best Christmas Decorations Around Greater Boston
Below is Wonderland’s guide to dazzling holiday decorations around greater Boston, from Attleboro to Somerville (listed by community, in alphabetical…
Halloween Displays Around Greater Boston
Some highlights of Halloween displays around Greater Boston for 2021 (listed by community, in alphabetical order). If this is the…