Hoping that “an investigation by an external party could provide greater objectivity and clarity,” Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has hired former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to look into…Continue Reading →
“Walks to the Paradise Garden: A Lowdown Southern Odyssey” by Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley and Guy Mendes “provides one last look at the artists and place-makers of the Southern United…Continue Reading →
A small crowd gathered in the field across from the Fitchburg Art Museum this afternoon to launch Otto Piene’s “Sky Art” inflatable sculpture “Paris Star” into the air. “It’s always different…Continue Reading →
“I grew up on Lenox Street, 69 B Lennox St., born and raised,” Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs tells me. “I was traveling between Lenox and Orchard Park housing projects.” He’d wait…Continue Reading →
In the 1990s, when Boston photographer Craig Bailey began taking the portraits that would become “The Faces of AIDS”—10 black and white photos on view at Medicine Wheel in Boston…Continue Reading →
Here is Wonderland’s guide to the best museum exhibitions to see around New England this summer…. If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate,…Continue Reading →
The Legoland Discovery Center in Somerville is routing on the Boston Bruins in their Stanley Cup pro hockey championship run against the St. Louis Blues with Lego depictions of the…Continue Reading →
Updated with May 31, 2019, statements from MFA. Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts says it has banned two visitors for making racist comments to seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y.…Continue Reading →
“No food, no drink, and no watermelon,” seventh graders from Boston’s Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy reported that a staffer at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts told the more than…Continue Reading →
The artist Otto Piene was 15 when his entire class at his school in Lübbecke, Germany, was drafted into the Wehrmacht. The conscription of kindsoldaten (“child soldiers”) into the military…Continue Reading →