Harvard Art Museums director to step down
Thomas W. Lentz, who has lead the Harvard Art Museums since 2003, says he plans to step down on July 1.Continue Reading →
Concerned Citizen: Planned sculpture would be ‘wound’ to Bangor
A floating sculpture planned for Bangor, Maine, would be “a wound to the heart of the city,” charges Fritz Spencer of Old Town, Maine, the former editor of the Christian Civic League Record,…Continue Reading →
Beard broken off King Tut’s burial mask at Egypt museum
“Now you can see a layer of transparent yellow,” one conservator said of the botched repair to the golden burial mask of pharaoh Tutankhamun at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo,…Continue Reading →
Beth Urdang Gallery plans move
Beth Urdang Gallery says it will be closing its Newbury Street location in Boston on Jan. 31 and moving into the gallery building at 460 Harrison Ave., Boston, in “late…Continue Reading →
Boston Public Library gets $488K grant for new teen programming
The Boston Public Library will offer “new and expanded technology programs in the new Teen Central space” scheduled to open at the Copley Square branch in late February with help from a…Continue Reading →
A Short History of Traffic and the American Civil Rights Movement
“We must preserve the right to free assembly. But free assembly does not carry with it the right to block public thoroughfares to traffic.” U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in his…Continue Reading →
If artists make art for public parks, can they still claim copyright protections?
C Can artists making work for a public park still claim copyright control over the use of their public images? Artist David Phillips, who has a studio in Medford, Massachusetts,…Continue Reading →