First Look At Three New Somerville Murals
“I wanted to share this idea of home, with the community, with the city of Somerville,” Imagine (Sneha Shrestha), a Nepali artist living in Somerville, said of the calligraphic mural…Continue Reading →
‘Be Safe Don’t Die!’ Temporary DIY Carnival Rides Reappear At MIT’s East Campus
This week students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s East Campus residence hall have been constructing DIY carnival rides. A plywood track for wooden handcarts circles around the courtyard between the…Continue Reading →
Cambridge Carnival Canceled Over Fears Of Gun Violence, Organizers Say
Cambridge Carnival—the spectacular annual Caribbean parade and festival planned for Sept. 8—has been canceled due to fears of violence, organizers announced Thursday night. “There have been increasing safety concerns associated…Continue Reading →
Photos: Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life Circus’
Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Diagonal Life Circus” at its home base in Glover, Vermont, at 3 p.m. each Sunday afternoon from July 7 to Aug. 25, 2019. I…Continue Reading →
Wadsworth Jarrell, AfriCOBRA And Creating ‘Art That African People Can Relate To’
“African people are the forerunners, innovators, creators, the hip. African people are my motivation,” Wadsworth Jarrell, one of the founders of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), said in…Continue Reading →
Illustrator And Disney Artist Kay Nielsen’s Glittering Fantasies And Difficult Life
The most famous creation of Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), one of the outstanding illustrators at the dawn of the 20th century, is the demon that steals the show at the end…Continue Reading →
Stephen Leakos Purposely Provokes In Skowhegan: ‘They Would Like Me To Be Gone’
The sign that Stephen Leakos put up on the front of his Skowhegan Downtown Art Gallery (“Est. 1999”) and Leakos Auction (“Est. 1964”) in Skowhegan, Maine, read: “A Provocative Painting…Continue Reading →
Double Edge Theatre Reimagines ‘Baron Munchausen’ As A Visionary Adventure
“Idiots!” and “Balderdash!” Baron Munchausen hollers, interrupting the vaudevillians’ truncated staging of Homer’s “Odyssey” (Ulysses drowns). Clad in a red coat with gold epaulets, Munchausen climbs down from a rooftop…Continue Reading →
‘What Brings You Joy?’—Nick Cave Fills Boston Cyclorama With Holiday Inflatables
“This is all that’s going on right now in the world, all this chaos,” Nick Cave tells me during a visit to the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the…Continue Reading →
Mass Cultural Council Budget To Increase By 12 Percent
The Massachusetts Cultural Council buget will grow by $2 million, or 12 percent, to $18 million for the current fiscal year, which began July 1. The increase for the state…Continue Reading →