David Owen Beyers Paints Mural Inside Dorchester Art Project
David Owen Beyers has been painting a mural in one of the bathrooms at Dorchester Art Project in Boston. The New York-based artist describes the scenes as “a mix of…Continue Reading →
Last Chance For Close Up Look At Gardner Museum’s ‘Most Important Work Of Ancient Art’
The story goes that the two-millennia-old Farnese Sarcophagus was so heavy that in 1901 Isabella Stewart Gardner had the marble coffin hauled in and built her museum around it. For…Continue Reading →
Kara Elliott-Ortega Named New Boston Arts Chief
Kara Elliott-Ortega was today named the Chief of Arts and Culture for the City of Boston. Ortega has held the job in an interim capacity since Julie Burros departed in…Continue Reading →
Check Out These Three Murals Being Painted In Somerville
“The symbolism of the mural is inspired by a Maya mask that represents birth and death from 700 AD,” Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez told me as he finished painting his new…Continue Reading →
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Or Else’ Channels The Forebodings Of Fascism Across The Land
Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Or Else” is a show about dark times in the land, channeling a national sense of things gone dangerously wrong, of wicked people in charge who…Continue Reading →
Goodbye To Former Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish
Sorry to hear about the passing of Sam Cornish, who was Boston’s Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2015. He died on Aug. 20 at age 82. “As a black writer…Continue Reading →
Paradox Teatro’s Shadow Puppet Show ‘Migraciones’ Illuminates The Harrowing Journeys Of Refugees
“Refugee puppetry and poetry in English and Español,” is how Paradox Teatro has described their shadow puppet show “Migraciones.” “In light of expanding border walls around the globe, ‘Migraciones’ follows…Continue Reading →
Photos: ‘Alterations: A Selection of Shrines’ At Dorchester Art Project
In “Altarations: A Selection of Shrines”—at Dorchester Art Project, 1486 Dorchester Ave. Boston, from July 21 to Aug. 26, 2018—56 artists ponder the nature of shrines. Mine DaCosta presents a…Continue Reading →
Wonderland’s Totally Biased Guide To AS220’s Foo Fest This Saturday
AS220’s Foo Fest—the annual street shindig outside the alternative art space’s building on 115 Empire St. in Providence—is this Saturday, Aug. 18, from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. It features…Continue Reading →
Photos: 2018 Boston Poetry Marathon
Over the past year, the Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing had been thinking a lot about death, poet Ruth Lepson recalled at the annual Boston Poetry Marathon on Sunday afternoon. “Do…Continue Reading →