272 individual artists and individual teaching artists, humanists, and scientists have each been awarded $1,000 grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Covid-19 Relief Fund for Individuals, the state arts agency…Continue Reading →
Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield announced yesterday that it will postpone its planned summer season to summer of 2021 due to coronavirus concerns, but beginning in August will present a…Continue Reading →
How can theater return as long as coronavirus threatens group gatherings? Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater and the Healthy Buildings Program at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health have announced…Continue Reading →
The motto of Shelter In Place Gallery is “Giving Boston artists an opportunity to make ‘large scale’ work from their shelter in place locations.” It epitomizes one of the ways…Continue Reading →
A who-done-it sits at the center of K. B. Wagers’s sci-fi adventure novel “A Pale Light in the Black” (Harper Voyager). A new lieutenant joins the crew of an elite…Continue Reading →
The top of Mt. Ephraim—at 208 feet the tallest point of Pine Banks Park in Melrose—was recently left charred by a brush fire. Even days later the area, with its…Continue Reading →
The music video begins with Nathaniel Hefferman, dressed in a Honk T-shirt, blowing the opening notes of Deee-Lite’s “Groove Is In The Heart” on saxophone. Then a drummer in red…Continue Reading →
Due to coronavirus closings, Boston’s Museum of Science announced today that it is “furloughing 250 staff members and laying off 122 staff members, affecting nearly two-thirds of the Museum’s overall…Continue Reading →
Alan Shestack of Washtington, D.C., who served as director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts from 1987 to 1993, died at his home on April 14, The Boston Globe reported…Continue Reading →
On Thursday night, the Somerville Arts Council kicked off its “Home Alone Art Series” with “Parallax,” a performance livestreamed on Facebook. Callie Chapman and Catherine Murcek danced while Christopher Konopka…Continue Reading →