“Long ago, the world was filled with wonder,” a voice-over explains at the start of the new Disney-Pixar computer animated feature “Onward.” Wizards and cyclops and gnomes and unicorns roamed…Continue Reading →
Anita Walker, who has lead the Massachusetts Cultural Council since 2007, plans to retire at the end of this fiscal year on June 30. The full announcement from the state…Continue Reading →
Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s galleries in Boston reopened as the MassArt Art Museum (MAAM) on Feb. 22 after a $12.5 million rebranding and renovation that took nearly two…Continue Reading →
“I am not a pentito [Italian slang for ‘informer’],” Tommaso Buscetta, a Sicilian mobster who turned star government witness in a blockbuster 1986 “Maxi Trial” that saw 360 convictions won…Continue Reading →
In February 1953, Time magazine declared Jacob Lawrence “the nation’s (and probably the world’s) foremost Negro painter.” Lawrence was about to embark on what he intended to be a monumental…Continue Reading →
For DigBoston, I recently previewed “Detroit Red,” a “theatrical exploration of the life of Malcolm X as he dwelled and came of age in the Roxbury section of Boston,” which…Continue Reading →
“I really wanted to highlight the strength of the human condition. When we work together we’re stronger,” Meredith Stern says of her exhibition “Cooperation Cats: 10 years, 20 prints” at…Continue Reading →
The audience broke into applause as Gloria Steinem strode onto the stage at the end of Jan. 30 opening night performance of “Gloria: A Life” at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater.…Continue Reading →
“Kids don’t get enough credit that they can understand what’s going on. Racism isn’t going to end until people start noticing it,” says Tanya Nixon-Silberg, co-founder of Wee the People,…Continue Reading →
“Laura McPhee: Desert Chronicle”—on view at Boston’s Carroll and Sons gallery from Dec. 4, 2019, to Feb. 1, 2020—is a concise exhibition of five large photos from the Brookline artist’s…Continue Reading →