‘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 →
Artist Cages Duckling Statues In Boston Public Garden To Protest Abuse Of Immigrants
Well before dawn last Friday morning, Karyn Alzayer snuck a group of miniature cages into Boston’s Public Garden via “a couple different vehicles.” The Malden artist had fashioned the tiny…Continue Reading →
With New York’s Central Park And Boston’s Emerald Necklace, Frederick Law Olmsted Imagined Democratic Utopias
“Big Plans: Picturing Social Reform,” at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from June 20 to Sept. 15, 2019, looks back a century and a half ago to a moment of…Continue Reading →
Finalists Chosen For New $15K Prize For Boston-Area Women Artists
Lilly Evelet of Boston, Arghavan Khosravi of Natick and Yu-Wen Wu of Boston have been named as finalists for a new biennial prize, the $15,000 Prilla Smith Brackett Award, that…Continue Reading →