“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 →
“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 →
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 →
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 →