First Look At Three New Somerville Murals
“I wanted to share this idea of home, with the community, with the city of Somerville,” Imagine (Sneha Shrestha), a Nepali artist living in Somerville, said of the calligraphic mural…Continue Reading →
‘Be Safe Don’t Die!’ Temporary DIY Carnival Rides Reappear At MIT’s East Campus
This week students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s East Campus residence hall have been constructing DIY carnival rides. A plywood track for wooden handcarts circles around the courtyard between the…Continue Reading →
Wadsworth Jarrell, AfriCOBRA And Creating ‘Art That African People Can Relate To’
“African people are the forerunners, innovators, creators, the hip. African people are my motivation,” Wadsworth Jarrell, one of the founders of AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), said in…Continue Reading →
Illustrator And Disney Artist Kay Nielsen’s Glittering Fantasies And Difficult Life
The most famous creation of Kay Nielsen (1886-1957), one of the outstanding illustrators at the dawn of the 20th century, is the demon that steals the show at the end…Continue Reading →
Stephen Leakos Purposely Provokes In Skowhegan: ‘They Would Like Me To Be Gone’
The sign that Stephen Leakos put up on the front of his Skowhegan Downtown Art Gallery (“Est. 1999”) and Leakos Auction (“Est. 1964”) in Skowhegan, Maine, read: “A Provocative Painting…Continue Reading →
‘What Brings You Joy?’—Nick Cave Fills Boston Cyclorama With Holiday Inflatables
“This is all that’s going on right now in the world, all this chaos,” Nick Cave tells me during a visit to the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the…Continue Reading →
Mass Cultural Council Budget To Increase By 12 Percent
The Massachusetts Cultural Council buget will grow by $2 million, or 12 percent, to $18 million for the current fiscal year, which began July 1. The increase for the state…Continue Reading →
Artist Cages Duckling Statues In Boston Public Garden To Protest Abuse Of Immigrants
Well before dawn last Friday morning, Karyn Alzayer snuck a group of miniature cages into Boston’s Public Garden via “a couple different vehicles.” The Malden artist had fashioned the tiny…Continue Reading →
Finalists Chosen For New $15K Prize For Boston-Area Women Artists
Lilly Evelet of Boston, Arghavan Khosravi of Natick and Yu-Wen Wu of Boston have been named as finalists for a new biennial prize, the $15,000 Prilla Smith Brackett Award, that…Continue Reading →
The Visionary Landscapes Of Joseph Yoakum: ‘There’s Nothing I Haven’t Suffered To See Things First Hand’
Joseph Yoakum (1890-1972) often jotted the locations of his abstracted landscape drawings in the top left of the pictures—the Florida Everglades, the Mississippi River, Utah canyons, New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain,…Continue Reading →