Note: Updated May 4, 2019, with comments from the Mass Cultural Council. The Massachusetts Cultural Council could get a 3.5 percent budget increase in July, but the state arts agency…Continue Reading →
The top amount greater Boston artists can receive from Creative City Boston—a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts building from its Creative City program—will double to $20,000,…Continue Reading →
Center for Maine Contemporary Art is “closed temporarily for repairs following a break in the water main that occurred inside the building in the early morning hours on Saturday, Jan.…Continue Reading →
Shey Rivera—the artistic director of Providence art center AS220 since she took over from c0-founder Umberto Crenca in 2015—will depart the organization at the end of this year, AS220 announced…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 →
Once Ballroom—the Somerville nightclub and headquarters of the locally-grown food catering company Cuisine en Locale—was hit by a burglary and wrecked office overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, owner JJ Gonson…Continue Reading →
What do we need from the city of Boston’s next chief of arts and culture? The Boston Globe published my thoughts: One measure of a healthy city is the art…Continue Reading →
Last Wednesday night, at the University of Rhode Island’s Paff Auditorium in Providence, leaders of AS220 launched the public part of their “All Access” campaign “to comprehensively renovate and upgrade…Continue Reading →
Julie Burros—“Boston’s first Chief of Arts and Culture in more than 20 years,” according to the Mayor Marty Walsh administration—will be leaving the position on June 29 to become “principal…Continue Reading →
The Massachusetts Cultural Council would be level funded at nearly $14 million for the coming fiscal year under a proposed state budget released today by Gov. Charlie Baker, the state…Continue Reading →