For some months now, we’ve been studying the Great Magnolia Swamp at Ravenswood Park in Gloucester, which is overseen by The Trustees of Reservations, for a documentary video we’re developing.…Continue Reading →
“Who owns the atmosphere?” “Who owns the street?” “Who owns the power?” “Who owns community?” These are some of the questions written on small, flat boxes arrayed across the lawn…Continue Reading →
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 →
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, 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 →
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 →
“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 →
“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 →
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 →
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 →