On Monday afternoon, musicians from the Boston chamber orchestra A Far Cry were picking out violins to borrow for the “Stradivari Serenade” that they’ll perform at New England Conservatory’s Jordan…Continue Reading →
The striking intimacy in the film “The Last Repair Shop,” which won the 2024 Academy Award for best documentary, begins with the Interrotron. Developed by Cambridge documentary filmmaker Errol Morris,…Continue Reading →
“The Last Repair Shop” is an astonishing, tender, heartbreaking, inspiring look behind the scenes at the expertise and love that the craftspeople of the instrument repair shop for the Los…Continue Reading →
In February, pieces of a century-old shipwreck began emerging from the sand at the northwest end of Ipswich’s Crane Beach—a jagged, 50-foot-long fragment of the starboard side of schooner’s wooden…Continue Reading →
As the story goes, in 1976, when Howard Finster was 60, the Baptist preacher was painting a bicycle when he got paint on his hand and fell into a vision.…Continue Reading →
One of the fascinating things about nature is how patterns repeat—the way, for example, the branching of trees can rhyme with the branching of rivers. This repetition can convince some…Continue Reading →
Update Feb. 3, 2024: Striking Newton public school teachers won increased pay, increased family leave, and increased mental health supports for students in a tentative contract deal with the city…Continue Reading →
“I was lucky to discover painting and psychedelics at the same time. I was like, ‘This is what I want to do with my life,’” artist James Neville (pictured above)…Continue Reading →
In 1954, Seymour Chwast, along with a handful of friends he’d made while studying art and design at Cooper Union, founded the New York design shop Push Pin Studios. Along…Continue Reading →
“It’s the perfect way of bringing something back to life,” says Julian Spooner, who plays the narrator Ishmael in Plexus Polaire’s puppet version of “Moby Dick.” “Everyone is kind of…Continue Reading →