“African people are the forerunners, innovators, creators, the hip. African people are my motivation,” Wadsworth Jarrell, one of the founders of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), said in…Continue Reading →
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 →