“Katie Gradowski called them ‘displacement dollhouses,’ which I thought was kind of cute,” Somerville artist Dina Gjertsen tells me about the dioramas she’s been making lately. At Martha Friend’s Friend-Smithsonian…Continue Reading →
The title of Boston artist Stephanie Cardon’s public artwork “Unless”—installed in the main entrance of the Prudential Center shopping mall at 800 Boylston St. through November—comes from Dr. Seuss’s 1971…Continue Reading →
There are moments of delight and happiness in the tales of Winnie-the-Pooh—like the very first one, the comedy of the stuffed bear pretending (badly) to be a rain cloud so…Continue Reading →
“I thought that this sunflower because of its special attributes would make a great symbol or emblem for Roxbury,” Ekua Holmes told me in June as her “Roxbury Sunflower Project”…Continue Reading →
Boston’s Office of Arts and Culture has named Courtney Sharpe (pictured above) as the department’s new director of cultural planning. The position is new, the city says, but it kinda…Continue Reading →
This fall museums across New England offer Ansel Adams photos, the original sketches for Winnie-the-Pooh, modernist designs by the sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and original artwork for the beloved children’s book…Continue Reading →
Early this week, a handful of students were up on ladders with power tools finishing construction for a monumental bridge arching across the courtyard of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s East…Continue Reading →
David Owen Beyers has been painting a mural in one of the bathrooms at Dorchester Art Project in Boston. The New York-based artist describes the scenes as “a mix of…Continue Reading →
The story goes that the two-millennia-old Farnese Sarcophagus was so heavy that in 1901 Isabella Stewart Gardner had the marble coffin hauled in and built her museum around it. For…Continue Reading →
Kara Elliott-Ortega was today named the Chief of Arts and Culture for the City of Boston. Ortega has held the job in an interim capacity since Julie Burros departed in…Continue Reading →