Where Anne Hutchinson Stopped On Her Way To Exile
In April 1638, Anne Hutchinson, the Boston midwife and spiritual leader, was exiled by court order and “tarried” at her family’s home in what’s now Quincy on her way to…Continue Reading →
Photos: Honk Festival In Somerville, Cambridge And Boston
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, returned yesterday, after taking a year off from live performances to help stem the spread of covid. Bands from around greater Bsoton…Continue Reading →
Honk Band Festival Returns 10/9—In New Neighborhoods, With Covid Precautions
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, returns Saturday, Oct. 9, after taking a year off from live performances to help stem the spread of covid. This weekend, “bands,…Continue Reading →
Moki Cherry’s Visionary Tapestries From Her ‘Total Art And Life Project’
Swedish artist Moki (Karlsson) Cherry and African American jazz trumpeter Don Cherry saw themselves as “modern nomads” as their toured the world with their art and music. “For traveling, fabric…Continue Reading →
Yayoi Kusama's 'Cosmic Nature'
“My pumpkins, beloved of all the plants in the world,” Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has said. “When I see pumpkins, I cannot efface the joy of them being my everything,…Continue Reading →
Goodbye To Nahant Artist Norman Laliberte
“We’re not here to do what has already been done,” Norman Laliberte said in a 2017 interview with Squash House Media. “That’s the most important thing about art.” Liberte, who…Continue Reading →
Shea Justice's Visual Diary Of Sordid U.S. 'History As It Unfolds'
Boston artist Shea Justice’s scrolls unspool across the walls of Spoke Gallery in Boston, an illustrated stream-of-consciousness journal of the United States’ sordid political and civil rights history from the…Continue Reading →
10th Anniversary Of Occupy Boston
Today is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of Occupy Boston at Boston’s Dewey Square, opposite the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, on Sept. 30, 2011. It was one of…Continue Reading →
How Aquinnah Wampanoag Artist Elizabeth James-Perry’s Idea ‘To Garden Wherever We Need To’ Came To The MFA’s Front Lawn
Last year, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts reached out to Aquinnah Wampanoag artist Elizabeth James-Perry to develop a project. She is a biological illustrator and gardener, as well as an…Continue Reading →
Josh Gray's 'Fantastical Menagerie'
“The number-one thing people say about people’s art is it makes them feel happy,” Arla Foster told the Bennington Banner about her son Josh Gray. “That is his purpose.” “Josh’s…Continue Reading →