Kahlo’s riveting 1940 painting “Self-Portrait with Hummingbirds and Thorn Necklace” is all the reason you need to see “Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts from…Continue Reading →
After a night of partying, a college student doesn’t wake up the next morning, or the next. She just sleeps and sleeps. In Karen Thompson Walker’s novel “The Dreamers” (Random House),…Continue Reading →
Jackie Shane—the electrifying soul singer, black cult heroine, and transgender pioneer—died this week in Nashville at age 78. “Any Other Way,” a box set of Shane’s music released in 2017…Continue Reading →
“I know places by walking them,” Kathleen Bitetti says. For a decade and a half, the Boston artist and community organizer has been retracing the steps of Massachusetts legends Abigail…Continue Reading →
“Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist,” Walter Gropius wrote in the 1919 manifesto to launch…Continue Reading →
During Joan Jonas’s 2017 residency at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the pioneering 82-year-old video and performance artist found herself attracted to animals. She photographed real and mythological critters she…Continue Reading →
In April 1927, 25-year-old photographer Ansel Adams and a handful of friends climbed toward Half Dome at Yosemite National Park in California. The iconic granite peak, round except for one…Continue Reading →
In the early 1970s, two young queer Mexican artists, painter Carlos Bueno and photographer Antonio Ibañez, and Franciscan nun and Temple University-trained artist Sister Karen Boccalero joined forces to address…Continue Reading →
This week the American Library Association announced that Boston artist Ekua Holmes had again won its Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books…Continue Reading →
“Ajijaak on Turtle Island”—by Heather Henson (daughter of Muppets creator Jim Henson) and IBEX Puppetry—is an environmental fable, Henson says, about “how to survive and thrive into the future.” The…Continue Reading →