“Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist,” Walter Gropius wrote in the 1919 manifesto to launch…Continue Reading →
During Joan Jonas’s 2017 residency at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the pioneering 82-year-old video and performance artist found herself attracted to animals. She photographed real and mythological critters she…Continue Reading →
In April 1927, 25-year-old photographer Ansel Adams and a handful of friends climbed toward Half Dome at Yosemite National Park in California. The iconic granite peak, round except for one…Continue Reading →
In the early 1970s, two young queer Mexican artists, painter Carlos Bueno and photographer Antonio Ibañez, and Franciscan nun and Temple University-trained artist Sister Karen Boccalero joined forces to address…Continue Reading →
This week the American Library Association announced that Boston artist Ekua Holmes had again won its Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books…Continue Reading →
“Ajijaak on Turtle Island”—by Heather Henson (daughter of Muppets creator Jim Henson) and IBEX Puppetry—is an environmental fable, Henson says, about “how to survive and thrive into the future.” The…Continue Reading →
Jess T. Dugan says the photos in her series “Every Breath We Drew”—on view at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, from Jan. 14 to March 16—add up to…Continue Reading →
As the Patriots head back to the Super Bowl against the Los Angeles Rams this Sunday evening, Danilchuk Auto Body has put up a display, titled “Brady’s Ram Hunting Camp,”…Continue Reading →
Chinese Culture Connection hosted its annual Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration at Malden High School on Jan. 26, 2019. All photos copyright 2019 Greg Cook. If this is the kind…Continue Reading →
For years, Providence photographer and sculptor Scott Lapham has taught art to teens and young adults. “Four of my students have been lost to gun violence,” he says. “It was…Continue Reading →