“Katie Gradowski called them ‘displacement dollhouses,’ which I thought was kind of cute,” Somerville artist Dina Gjertsen tells me about the dioramas she’s been making lately. At Martha Friend’s Friend-Smithsonian…Continue Reading →
The title of Boston artist Stephanie Cardon’s public artwork “Unless”—installed in the main entrance of the Prudential Center shopping mall at 800 Boylston St. through November—comes from Dr. Seuss’s 1971…Continue Reading →
There are moments of delight and happiness in the tales of Winnie-the-Pooh—like the very first one, the comedy of the stuffed bear pretending (badly) to be a rain cloud so…Continue Reading →
Oompa and Cliff Notez performed at today’s Evolution of Hip Hop Festival in Somerville’s Union Square. Photos copyright 2018 Greg Cook. Previously: May 19, 2018: Photos: Cliff Notez Raps At…Continue Reading →
“How the fuck did this happen?” Michael Moore asks aloud in his pointed new documentary “Fahrenheit 11/9,” the filmmaker’s rumination on America during the presidency of Donald Trump. (The title…Continue Reading →
“I thought that this sunflower because of its special attributes would make a great symbol or emblem for Roxbury,” Ekua Holmes told me in June as her “Roxbury Sunflower Project”…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s “The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus,” which they performed yesterday on Cambridge Common, offered slapstick and social criticism along with “celestial grasshoppers” who come to earth “when the…Continue Reading →
“We are here because we understand climate change affects everybody. Though some leaders have tried to come between us, for the future of this planet we are all in the…Continue Reading →
Boston’s Office of Arts and Culture has named Courtney Sharpe (pictured above) as the department’s new director of cultural planning. The position is new, the city says, but it kinda…Continue Reading →
When the Boston Music Awards sent out ballots to nominating committee members this morning, there was a change. Instead of having separate categories for male and female vocalist of the…Continue Reading →