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 →
First published April 2, 2020. Last updated June 12, 2020. This is intended at a memorial tribute to people in our local cultural community whom we have lost to the…Continue Reading →
As activism has spread across Massachusetts in response to Minneapolis Police murdering George Floyd on May 25, organizers have used online posters to share word of protests, marches, rallies and…Continue Reading →
“Many of my portraits are about affection,” Cambridge photographer Elsa Dorfman once wrote. With her mammoth, 200-pound Polaroid 20×24 camera—one of only five or six built—she made commissioned studio portraits…Continue Reading →
The Institute of Contemporary Art plans to continue to use the Watershed, its seasonal exhibition space in East Boston, as a site to distribute food to families struggling with the…Continue Reading →
“The unmattering of Black lives starts in childhood,” Wee The People co-founder Francie Latour writes. “…When we intervene in a way that tells kids the truth, that taps into their…Continue Reading →
“We’ve made it so people feel like they can make it,” John Andrews, founder and managing director of Creative Collective, told me a couple weeks back. The Salem organization describes…Continue Reading →
Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has pledged $500,000 for diversity and inclusion initiatives in a deal with Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey responding to complaints from students at Boston’s Helen…Continue Reading →
For some years, I’ve wondered about a row house at 9 Dwight St. in Boston’s South End. It stands out from its staid brick neighbors because white sculptures seem to…Continue Reading →