“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 →
Joseph Yoakum (1890-1972) often jotted the locations of his abstracted landscape drawings in the top left of the pictures—the Florida Everglades, the Mississippi River, Utah canyons, New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain,…Continue Reading →
Photos from the annual Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival in Massachusetts. Fifteen artists compete in the Master Sand Sculpting Competition through July 28. Free admission. All photos copyright 2019…Continue Reading →
On Thursday, Marilyn Artus brought her national “Her Flag” women’s suffrage centenary celebration to Boston. To mark the hundredth anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed the right to vote…Continue Reading →
Boston artist Steve Locke says he is abandoning his proposed “Auction Block Memorial” for Boston’s Faneuil Hall due to criticism from the Boston branch of the National Association for the…Continue Reading →
I binge read Brian Jay Jones’s biography “Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination” (Dutton). I couldn’t put it down. Jones tells Geisel’s bumpy journey…Continue Reading →
July 22 to 31, 2019: Pictured above: Cedric Douglas sketches in the beginnings of his mural, one of 15 painted around downtown Lynn for “Beyond Walls,” July 15, 2017. (Greg…Continue Reading →