Double Edge Theatre’s ‘Memories and Dreams’
“Is this the beginning?” asks a man in a T-shirt who steps out of the audience of Double Edge Theatre’s new spectacle “Memories and Dreams” to take center stage at…Continue Reading →
Rededicating John Wilson’s Monument To Black Fatherhood At Roxbury Community College
“In Western art, it is common to have the theme of the mother and child but the theme of male bonding is much less common,” Edmund Barry Gaither, director and…Continue Reading →
Fixing The Nearly 300-Year-Old Clock Inside Boston’s Old North Church
A clock shaped a bit like an exclamation point, with a bronze sun shining at the center of its black face, has kept time inside Boston’s Old North Church since…Continue Reading →
‘Bedsheet Mitigations’ Paintings By Bread And Puppet’s Peter Schumann
“Dirty painful reality doesn’t allow these paintings to be abstract and enjoy abstinence from that dirt and pain,” Bread & Puppet Theater Founder and Artistic Director Peter Schumann writes of…Continue Reading →
Photos: Ifé Franklin’s Juneteenth Celebration
“All praise to our freedom,” Liza Zayas said during the opening invocations for Boston artist Ifé Franklin’s Juneteenth Celebration at Black Market Nubian Square as part of the premiere of…Continue Reading →
On Juneteenth, Ifé Franklin Debuts ‘Slave Narrative’ Film
From my article in Dig Boston: “I’s sick O Massa hans all ova me.” So begins Ifé Franklin’s 2018 book “The Slave Narrative of Willie Mae” (Wildheart Press). “This book…Continue Reading →
‘Her Flag’ Celebrating Centennial Of Women’s Suffrage At National Museum of Women in the Arts
A flag celebrating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which ensured women’s right to vote within the United States Constitution, will be displayed on the New…Continue Reading →
Cedric Douglas Mural At Former Medfield State Hospital Evokes Healing Power Of Arts
In May, Boston artist Cedric “Vise1” Douglas painted an 125-foot-long mural on one of the buildings of the former Medfield State Hospital off Hospital Road there, at the back of…Continue Reading →
Photographer S.B. (Sam) Walker Travels Maine For A New Look At The Old Place
In 2014, photographer S.B. (Sam) Walker set out on a series of road trips to photograph the state of Maine. The results so far are featured in the exhibition “Nor’east,”…Continue Reading →
‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ Author Eric Carle Has Died At Age 91
“Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly innovative presentation of an insect’s appetite and metamorphosis,” The New York Times wrote of Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” when naming the book among the “outstanding…Continue Reading →