Shey Rivera—the artistic director of Providence art center AS220 since she took over from c0-founder Umberto Crenca in 2015—will depart the organization at the end of this year, AS220 announced…Continue Reading →
Macon Reed has said she created her immersive “Eulogy for the Dyke Bar” installation “to push people to really consider what it would mean to have these spaces—dyke and lesbian…Continue Reading →
“This is a time when we need light in darkness,” Rabbi Steven Lewis of Gloucester’s Temple Ahavat Achim told the crowd gathered last night as they lit what’s said to…Continue Reading →
In 1941, Shawn Powell, a young man from Oakland, crafted a purse (pictured above) while serving a homicide sentence in San Quentin State Prison in California. Using a meticulous technique…Continue Reading →
Twenty sections from the landmark AIDS Memorial Quilt frame this year’s 27th annual “Medicine Wheel” AIDS vigil. The event begins at 11:30 p.m. tonight and continues for 24 hours at…Continue Reading →
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh will veto the Boston Landmarks Commission’s vote to grant landmark status to the Citgo sign in Boston’s Kenmore Square after a real estate developer agrees to…Continue Reading →
Near the start of “Nine Moments for Now,” the riveting exhibition at the Cooper Gallery at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center in Cambridge through Jan. 21, is a hall of black…Continue Reading →
Malden held its annual Parade of Holiday Traditions yesterday. As usual Ward 7 City Councilor Neal Anderson’ annual wintery float staffed by elves and the Aleppo Unit of Shriners Clowns…Continue Reading →
Thursday, Nov. 22 Noon: 2018 National Day of Mourning (pictured above) organized by United American Indians of New England every year since 1970 on US “thanksgiving” day. At Cole’s Hill, Plymouth,…Continue Reading →
“Where in the world did I ever get the idea that people are supposed to be good?” The line is obsessively printed hundreds of times in one of the artworks…Continue Reading →