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 →
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 →
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 →
Under pressure from Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Northeastern University has again pushed back the deadline for when it says school’s landmark African American Master Artists In Residence Program must vacate…Continue Reading →
Late last month, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum installed a new public artwork, a giant banner hanging down the facade of its building by Boston artist Steve Locke. It’s titled…Continue Reading →
Just north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge sits the Harvard Science Building. And just to its left, on its west side facing toward Cambridge Common, is the stump of a…Continue Reading →
“Who has access to space, both public and private?” Liz Glynn says she wants to ask with “Open House,” her public artwork on Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue Mall. “What kind of…Continue Reading →
“We wanted to believe a witch lived there,” Jim Stingl, a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, recalled not quite a month after the artist Mary Nohl died in 2001. He’d…Continue Reading →
The landmark African American Master Artists In Residence Program at Northeastern University may have more time before the Boston school makes it vacate a university building in Jamaica Plain after…Continue Reading →
Gas workers, locked-out by National Grid in a contract dispute, protested at a company work site on Main Street in Malden today. National Grid has locked-out some 1,200 members of…Continue Reading →