“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 →
Many comics conventions are basically trade shows focused on selling books and memorabilia, but this weekend’s Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE) was founded in 2010 to focus on the artists—with…Continue Reading →
Just north of Laurel Street, along a dirt section of the “Bike to the Sea” Northern Strand Community Trail in Saugus, Massachusetts, is a garden that’s always in bloom. Located…Continue Reading →
In the 1950s, when Ashley Bryan first came by boat to summer on Maine’s Great Cranberry Island, he recalled, “I had my boxes and things, someone reached for it and…Continue Reading →
At the end of a “Create the Vote” candidate forum Monday with Jay Gonzalez—the Needham Democrat running against Republican incumbent Charlie Baker for governor of Massachusetts— Melissa Nussbaum Freeman of…Continue Reading →
This morning, if all goes according to plan, an artificial coral reef—conceived by Fitchburg artist Jerry Beck of The Revolving Museum and crafted by more than 50 artists, kids and…Continue Reading →