The Great Elephant Migration–100 sculptures of “Indian elephants are migrating across the US to inspire the human race to share space”–is coming to Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue Mall, between Fairfield and…Continue Reading →
“I missed out on Saturday morning cartoons as a kid because I had to go to Latvian school,” artist Ansis Puriņš of Boston’s Brighton neighborhood writes, “to learn the language…Continue Reading →
Under a 19-foot-tall granite obelisk at the center of Arlington’s Old Burying Ground, off Pleasant Street, are the bodies of 12 locals killed during the first day of fighting of…Continue Reading →
In the early 1980s, Pearl Fryar began transforming his home in Bishopville, South Carolina, into a fantastic topiary garden, often using plants rescued from the compost piles of local nurseries.…Continue Reading →
Saddened to hear that Isaiah Zagar—creator of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, one of the great visionary art spaces of the world, as well as the creator of many mosaic murals across…Continue Reading →
The first Boston Public Art Triennial officially opened on May 22. For a decade, the nonprofit Now+There had been installing one-off temporary public art around Boston. It rebranded as the…Continue Reading →
“This work is really about the capacity for each of us to be enveloped in love, and I feel enveloped in love every time I hear the names and see…Continue Reading →
When a massive, old European beech tree at Somerville’s Symphony Park declined into disease, the city’s Parks and Open Space staff decided to have it cut down. But they saved…Continue Reading →
“My vision is to add to Boston’s skyline in a way that elevates the voices and work of those who’ve come before us as well as our future generations. It’s…Continue Reading →
“Gradually and silently the charm comes over us; we know not exactly where or how” reads a moss installation by Heidi Schork and Jerome Jones at Boston’s Jamaica Pond, quoting…Continue Reading →