Peabody Essex Museum will layoff 15 percent of its staff–or 38 of 260 people–“in order to sustain museum operations” as it deals with the financial costs of coronavirus, which have…Continue Reading →
“This statue has to go,” Boston artist Tory Bullock said Thursday of “Freedmen’s Memorial Monument” in Boston’s Park Square. As racist monuments are coming down across the United States in…Continue Reading →
An article from Wonderland’s series about Miserable Places: Despite Purgatory Chasm’s dismal-sounding name, most visitors have found the gorge stirring. “This is a most stupendous place,” W.A. Benedict and H…Continue Reading →
First published April 2, 2020. Last updated June 12, 2020. This is intended at a memorial tribute to people in our local cultural community whom we have lost to the…Continue Reading →
As activism has spread across Massachusetts in response to Minneapolis Police murdering George Floyd on May 25, organizers have used online posters to share word of protests, marches, rallies and…Continue Reading →
Thousands of people participated in the Black Lives Matter March in Malden, Massachusetts, this afternoon. It began at the high school and proceeded to Lincoln Common Park. All content copyright…Continue Reading →
This is a calendar of Boston and Providence area rallies calling for justice for Black lives and protests against police brutality. If you know of events I should add, please…Continue Reading →
‘Where Is The Love?’ banner hung over Route 90 at Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, June 2, 2020. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you…Continue Reading →
“Many of my portraits are about affection,” Cambridge photographer Elsa Dorfman once wrote. With her mammoth, 200-pound Polaroid 20×24 camera—one of only five or six built—she made commissioned studio portraits…Continue Reading →
How can theaters adapt to reduce the spread of coronavirus? That’s the daunting question that the “first edition” of the “Roadmap for Recovery and Resilience for Theater” from Harvard’s American…Continue Reading →