Blood. And destruction. Those are the central elements of Heidi Whitman’s 2025 one-room installation “Ahab’s Head: American Vengeance” at the New Bedford Whaling Museum from Dec. 13, 2025, to May…Continue Reading →
Under a 19-foot-tall granite obelisk at the center of Arlington’s Old Burying Ground, off Pleasant Street, are the bodies of 12 locals killed during the first day of fighting of…Continue Reading →
A party was held last night to honor my friend Greg Jenkins, who was pushed out of his role as director of the Somerville Arts Council in February. The “Arts…Continue Reading →
In the early 1980s, Pearl Fryar began transforming his home in Bishopville, South Carolina, into a fantastic topiary garden, often using plants rescued from the compost piles of local nurseries.…Continue Reading →
The all-women exhibition “Everything And More,” at Street Theory Collective in Cambridge from Feb. 12 to April 11, 2026, explores “how inherited histories shape contemporary form. Ancestry is approached not…Continue Reading →
Greenberg’s Great Train & Toy Show at the Shriners Auditorium in Wilmington, Massachusetts, March 21 and 22, 2026. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms…Continue Reading →
“What would have happened to me if I’d been treated in the 19th century?” wondered Rachel May after receiving care for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in 2010 at McLean Hospital, whose…Continue Reading →
The creatures populating the exhibit “Masako Miki: Midnight March,” on view the MassArt Art Museum in Boston from Jan. 29 to May 31, 2026, are delightful furry soft things, dotted…Continue Reading →
In a darkened gallery, black-painted model buildings glow from within. Looking in the tiny windows of 18 little buildings—Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, the United Nations skyscraper in New York,…Continue Reading →
The exhibition “Cosmic Threads,” featuring Boston artists Funlola Coker and Maria Molteni and North Berwick, Maine, artist Erin Genia at McCoy Art Gallery at Merrimack College, North Andover, “reimagines humanity’s…Continue Reading →