How did the iconic scenes in Disney animated films take shape? Snow White running away through a haunted wood. Sorcerer’s Apprentice Mickey conjuring in “Fantasia.” Cinderella’s magical pumpkin coach galloping…Continue Reading →
“Every one of us has a name. Every one of us deserves to be witnessed, deserves to be seen,” artist Michael Dowling tells me today when I visit “Medicine Wheel,”…Continue Reading →
The 4-year-old was so proud of how he cleaned his bed.Continue Reading →
“I think sometimes puppets and masks are thought of as a primitive and non-modern remnant of indigenous cultures. … And yet they show up,” says John Bell, a Cambridge-based puppeteer…Continue Reading →
Chicago artist Matthew Hoffman’s “May This Never End”—a 319-foot-long text artwork that debuted along Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway in 2016—has a new home, the City of Boston reports. The yellow…Continue Reading →
“I wanted my sculptures to be outdoors in parks, where people of all ages could touch and enjoy them,” writes Nancy Schön, the West Newton artist best known for her…Continue Reading →
Thanks to everyone who joined us in the “Reindeer Against Global Warming” group in Malden’s annual Parade of Holiday Traditions on Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017. Kari Percival and I were…Continue Reading →
“They are designed to amplify the voices of front line groups fighting for the rights of immigrants,” writes New York artist Alexandra Zevin of her appliquéd “Liberty Knows No Borders”…Continue Reading →
There’s nothing like a giant orchestra of tuba players performing holiday classics. Last year 147 of the horn players performed at the yearly Boston TubaChristmas Concert. They return to present…Continue Reading →
Trailblazing feminist artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles (far right) was up here from New York last week to plan projects with the Cambridge Arts Council (one of my day jobs)–and I…Continue Reading →