The most famous creation of Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), one of the outstanding illustrators at the dawn of the 20th century, is the demon that steals the show at the end…Continue Reading →
The sign that Stephen Leakos put up on the front of his Skowhegan Downtown Art Gallery (“Est. 1999”) and Leakos Auction (“Est. 1964”) in Skowhegan, Maine, read: “A Provocative Painting…Continue Reading →
“Idiots!” and “Balderdash!” Baron Munchausen hollers, interrupting the vaudevillians’ truncated staging of Homer’s “Odyssey” (Ulysses drowns). Clad in a red coat with gold epaulets, Munchausen climbs down from a rooftop…Continue Reading →
“This is all that’s going on right now in the world, all this chaos,” Nick Cave tells me during a visit to the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the…Continue Reading →
The Massachusetts Cultural Council buget will grow by $2 million, or 12 percent, to $18 million for the current fiscal year, which began July 1. The increase for the state…Continue Reading →
Well before dawn last Friday morning, Karyn Alzayer snuck a group of miniature cages into Boston’s Public Garden via “a couple different vehicles.” The Malden artist had fashioned the tiny…Continue Reading →
“Big Plans: Picturing Social Reform,” at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum from June 20 to Sept. 15, 2019, looks back a century and a half ago to a moment of…Continue Reading →
Lilly Evelet of Boston, Arghavan Khosravi of Natick and Yu-Wen Wu of Boston have been named as finalists for a new biennial prize, the $15,000 Prilla Smith Brackett Award, that…Continue Reading →
More than 60 people gathered in Watertown Square last night for a vigil remembering the 74th anniversary of the United States dropping nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima…Continue Reading →
“Sometimes it feels inevitable, but it’s not inevitable,” Steve Meacham, an organizer for the housing advocacy group City Life/Vida Urbana, told the crowd at a rally this afternoon to support…Continue Reading →