The Boston Art Commission voted unanimously tonight to remove the controversial Emancipation monument in Boston’s Park Square, which depicts President Abraham Lincoln standing over a crouching Black man newly liberated…Continue Reading →
Enjoy a rainy day with Wonderland Spectacle Co. in our new video for kids and families. Play in puddles. Learn how to make a rain band. Craft paper boats. Look…Continue Reading →
Artists involved in the African American Master Artists In Residence Program at Northeastern University say that the Boston school has again locked artists out of the building the four-decade-old program…Continue Reading →
In less than two weeks, more than 12,000 people have signed an online petition calling for the removal of “Freedmen’s Memorial Monument” or “Emancipation Group” in Boston’s Park Square. And…Continue Reading →
A Black Lives Matter mural has been painted at Graffiti Alley in Cambridge. And last weekend a team of artists painted a “Unified” mural there as well. If this is…Continue Reading →
The T-Rex outside Boston’s Museum of Science and the Lego giraffe standing in front of Somerville’s Legoland Discovery Center are now sporting masks, as communities continue to work to stem…Continue Reading →
“Do not despair we are ‘On The MOVE,'” the National Black Doll Museum said in announcing that it is closing its storefront galleries in Mansfield due to the challenges of…Continue Reading →
An “Open Letter from Boston Arts and Cultural Workers in Demand of Racial Equity and Social Transformation” being circulated online calls for Boston area museums and other cultural institutions to…Continue Reading →
Peabody Essex Museum will layoff 15 percent of its staff–or 38 of 260 people–“in order to sustain museum operations” as it deals with the financial costs of coronavirus, which have…Continue Reading →
“This statue has to go,” Boston artist Tory Bullock said Thursday of “Freedmen’s Memorial Monument” in Boston’s Park Square. As racist monuments are coming down across the United States in…Continue Reading →