Check Out These Three Murals Being Painted In Somerville
“The symbolism of the mural is inspired by a Maya mask that represents birth and death from 700 AD,” Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez told me as he finished painting his new…Continue Reading →
Photos: ‘Alterations: A Selection of Shrines’ At Dorchester Art Project
In “Altarations: A Selection of Shrines”—at Dorchester Art Project, 1486 Dorchester Ave. Boston, from July 21 to Aug. 26, 2018—56 artists ponder the nature of shrines. Mine DaCosta presents a…Continue Reading →
Northeastern Delays Deadline For Landmark Black Arts Program To Vacate Boston Building, Some Artists Object To Negotiation Ground Rules
Under pressure from Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, Northeastern University has again pushed back the deadline for when it says school’s landmark African American Master Artists In Residence Program must vacate…Continue Reading →
Steve Locke Addresses Freddie Gray, The Boston Library And Boston’s Complicity In Slavery In New Public Artworks
Late last month, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum installed a new public artwork, a giant banner hanging down the facade of its building by Boston artist Steve Locke. It’s titled…Continue Reading →
The Man Who Took Care Of Winnie-The-Pooh’s House
Just north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge sits the Harvard Science Building. And just to its left, on its west side facing toward Cambridge Common, is the stump of a…Continue Reading →
Recreating A Gilded Age Ballroom Outdoors In Boston To Mull Our Economic Future
“Who has access to space, both public and private?” Liz Glynn says she wants to ask with “Open House,” her public artwork on Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue Mall. “What kind of…Continue Reading →
Visiting Mary Nohl’s Enchanted Cottage On The Shore of Lake Michigan
“We wanted to believe a witch lived there,” Jim Stingl, a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, recalled not quite a month after the artist Mary Nohl died in 2001. He’d…Continue Reading →
Mayor Pushes Northeastern To Give Landmark Black Artists Residency Program More Time To Vacate Boston Building
The landmark African American Master Artists In Residence Program at Northeastern University may have more time before the Boston school makes it vacate a university building in Jamaica Plain after…Continue Reading →
Northeastern Says Landmark Black Artists Residency Program ‘Must Vacate’ Jamaica Plain Building
Artists involved in the African American Master Artists In Residence Program at Northeastern University charge that on Sunday the Boston school locked artists out of the building the four-decade program…Continue Reading →
Photos: Look Inside The Watershed, The ICA’s New East Boston Outpost
On July 4, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art will debut a satellite outpost on the East Boston waterfront, across the harbor from the museum’s Seaport/Innovation District home. Called the ICA…Continue Reading →