Updated with May 31, 2019, statements from MFA. Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts says it has banned two visitors for making racist comments to seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y.…Continue Reading →
“No food, no drink, and no watermelon,” seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy reported that a staffer at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts told the more than…Continue Reading →
May 24 to June 1, 2019: Pictured above: Tim Hall (right) joins Cliff Notez at Hojoko at the Verb Hotel, May 18, 2018. (Greg Cook) If this is the kind…Continue Reading →
The artist Otto Piene was 15 when his entire class at his school in Lübbecke, Germany, was drafted into the Wehrmacht. The conscription of kindsoldaten (“child soldiers”) into the military…Continue Reading →
“A cultural response manifested into a show” is how this Saturday’s “Boston Answering” show at the Strand Theatre in Boston is described by its organizers, Boston booking and audio and…Continue Reading →
“Keep abortion safe and legal” people chanted at a “Stop The Abortion Ban” rally at the Massachusetts State House in Boston at noon today. Hundreds of women and some men…Continue Reading →
Three large brown papier-mâché puppets arrive on the blue curtained stage early on in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis.” The puppets depict head and hands, perhaps…Continue Reading →
Patricia Marx and Roz Chast have a delicious premise for their slim illustrated humor/advice book “Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? A Mother’s Suggestions”…Continue Reading →
May 18 to 15, 2019: Pictured above: Revere Beach Kite Festival, May 17, 2015. (Greg Cook) If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please…Continue Reading →
NOTE: I’ve been commissioned by the Essex County Community Foundation to help document/promote cultural projects from its Creative County Initiative, which is supported by Boston’s Barr Foundation. On a damp…Continue Reading →