Though the first printing press was imported from Europe into the Americas around 1554, to Mexico City, and Harvard got the first printing press in the English colonies in 1639,…Continue Reading →
The Society of the Madonna Della Cava held their 103 anniversary Feast in Boston’s North End on Aug. 11 to 13, with a procession of a banner of the saint…Continue Reading →
Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater brought its “The Heart of the Matter Circus” to Cambridge Common on Saturday as part of its September tour of the Northeast. The perform Lawrence,…Continue Reading →
This weekend Bread and Puppet Theater begins a tour of its “The Heart of the Matter Circus” with shows in Cambridge and Lawrence, Massachusetts. (See schedule below.) Admission is free.…Continue Reading →
J’Ouvert means “breaking of the dawn,” according to organizers of Boston’s annual Caribbean-American Carnival. The Carnival parade, held this afternoon, is marking its 50th year. But the day began with…Continue Reading →
At the heart of JooYoung Choi’s exhibition “Love and Wondervision” is a monumental installation titled “Like a Bolt Out of the Blue, Faith Steps In and Sees You Through—Infinite Feels…Continue Reading →
If the stones that make up the facade of Vermont’s Brattleboro Museum & Art Center had been able to chose their fate, what would they have dreamed of becoming? Michael…Continue Reading →
Provincetown’s 45th annual Carnival Parade danced down Commercial Street from the Harbor Hotel in the East End to the Coast Guard Station in the West End yesterday afternoon. This year’s…Continue Reading →
For more than five decades, Ted Degener—who lives near Cornish, New Hampshire—has driven across the United States photographing more than 400 visionary art environments and their creators. His photos and…Continue Reading →
In 1929, a group of Italian-Catholic Immigrants formed the Saint Rocco Fraternal Society in the Edgeworth section of Malden, Massachusetts, to help locals afflicted with flu. They named it for…Continue Reading →