“Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist,” Walter Gropius wrote in the 1919 manifesto to launch…Continue Reading →
During Joan Jonas’s 2017 residency at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the pioneering 82-year-old video and performance artist found herself attracted to animals. She photographed real and mythological critters she…Continue Reading →
In April 1927, 25-year-old photographer Ansel Adams and a handful of friends climbed toward Half Dome at Yosemite National Park in California. The iconic granite peak, round except for one…Continue Reading →
In the early 1970s, two young queer Mexican artists, painter Carlos Bueno and photographer Antonio Ibañez, and Franciscan nun and Temple University-trained artist Sister Karen Boccalero joined forces to address…Continue Reading →
Jess T. Dugan says the photos in her series “Every Breath We Drew”—on view at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, from Jan. 14 to March 16—add up to…Continue Reading →
As the Patriots head back to the Super Bowl against the Los Angeles Rams this Sunday evening, Danilchuk Auto Body has put up a display, titled “Brady’s Ram Hunting Camp,”…Continue Reading →
For years, Providence photographer and sculptor Scott Lapham has taught art to teens and young adults. “Four of my students have been lost to gun violence,” he says. “It was…Continue Reading →
The April 6, 1970, issue of Time magazine arrived with a portrait of Jessie Jackson on the cover painted by Jacob Lawrence and the headline “Black America 1970.” Inside was…Continue Reading →
In 1970, “Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book of Animals” was published, the first in a long line of how-to draw books by the Ipswich author that have gone on to inspire…Continue Reading →
Jessica Straus ruminates on love and war in “TransAtlantic,” the Newton artist’s installation at Boston Sculptors Gallery from Dec. 12, 2018, to Jan. 27, 2019. Maps of eastern North America…Continue Reading →