Macon Reed has said she created her immersive “Eulogy for the Dyke Bar” installation “to push people to really consider what it would mean to have these spaces—dyke and lesbian…Continue Reading →
In 1941, Shawn Powell, a young man from Oakland, crafted a purse (pictured above) while serving a homicide sentence in San Quentin State Prison in California. Using a meticulous technique…Continue Reading →
Twenty sections from the landmark AIDS Memorial Quilt frame this year’s 27th annual “Medicine Wheel” AIDS vigil. The event begins at 11:30 p.m. tonight and continues for 24 hours at…Continue Reading →
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh will veto the Boston Landmarks Commission’s vote to grant landmark status to the Citgo sign in Boston’s Kenmore Square after a real estate developer agrees to…Continue Reading →
Near the start of “Nine Moments for Now,” the riveting exhibition at the Cooper Gallery at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center in Cambridge through Jan. 21, is a hall of black…Continue Reading →
“Where in the world did I ever get the idea that people are supposed to be good?” The line is obsessively printed hundreds of times in one of the artworks…Continue Reading →
The Northeastern University’s Oct 31 deadline for the landmark African American Master Artists In Residence Program to vacate a school building came and went today without a resolution to the…Continue Reading →
Halloween is a most wonderful time of year—that season when the lengthening nights make us suspect that the boundaries between living and dead and other sinister creatures grow porous, and…Continue Reading →
In an effort to resolve “unsustainable” budget crunches, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, is in talks to become a subsidiary of the Trustees of Reservations, a major…Continue Reading →
Tory Bullock calls his latest project, “The Gentrification Game,” “A life-sized game for a life-sized problem.” On Oct. 25 and 26 and Nov. 1 and 2, from 4 to 7…Continue Reading →