Goodbye To Former Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish
Sorry to hear about the passing of Sam Cornish, who was Boston’s Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2015. He died on Aug. 20 at age 82. “As a black writer…Continue Reading →
Paradox Teatro’s Shadow Puppet Show ‘Migraciones’ Illuminates The Harrowing Journeys Of Refugees
“Refugee puppetry and poetry in English and Español,” is how Paradox Teatro has described their shadow puppet show “Migraciones.” “In light of expanding border walls around the globe, ‘Migraciones’ follows…Continue Reading →
Photos: ‘Alterations: A Selection of Shrines’ At Dorchester Art Project
In “Altarations: A Selection of Shrines”—at Dorchester Art Project, 1486 Dorchester Ave. Boston, from July 21 to Aug. 26, 2018—56 artists ponder the nature of shrines. Mine DaCosta presents a…Continue Reading →
Wonderland’s Totally Biased Guide To AS220’s Foo Fest This Saturday
AS220’s Foo Fest—the annual street shindig outside the alternative art space’s building on 115 Empire St. in Providence—is this Saturday, Aug. 18, from 1 p.m. to 1 a.m. It features…Continue Reading →
Photos: 2018 Boston Poetry Marathon
Over the past year, the Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing had been thinking a lot about death, poet Ruth Lepson recalled at the annual Boston Poetry Marathon on Sunday afternoon. “Do…Continue Reading →
Northeastern Delays Deadline For Landmark Black Arts Program To Vacate Boston Building, Some Artists Object To Negotiation Ground Rules
Under pressure from Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Northeastern University has again pushed back the deadline for when it says school’s landmark African American Master Artists In Residence Program must vacate…Continue Reading →
Steve Locke Addresses Freddie Gray, The Boston Library And Boston’s Complicity In Slavery In New Public Artworks
Late last month, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum installed a new public artwork, a giant banner hanging down the facade of its building by Boston artist Steve Locke. It’s titled…Continue Reading →
The Man Who Took Care Of Winnie-The-Pooh’s House
Just north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge sits the Harvard Science Building. And just to its left, on its west side facing toward Cambridge Common, is the stump of a…Continue Reading →
Recreating A Gilded Age Ballroom Outdoors In Boston To Mull Our Economic Future
“Who has access to space, both public and private?” Liz Glynn says she wants to ask with “Open House,” her public artwork on Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue Mall. “What kind of…Continue Reading →
Visiting Mary Nohl’s Enchanted Cottage On The Shore of Lake Michigan
“We wanted to believe a witch lived there,” Jim Stingl, a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, recalled not quite a month after the artist Mary Nohl died in 2001. He’d…Continue Reading →