Corita Kent Rainbow Gas Tank Sticker
Street art sticker by Jesse Haley of Watertown spotted on the back of a sign on Broadway by Cambridge’s Sennot Park, riffing on Corita Kent’s iconic 1971 rainbow gas tank…Continue Reading →
Maya Lin’s ‘Ghost Forest’ Brings A Dead Grove To Manhattan To Warn Of Global Warming
Surrounded by skyscrapers, amidst the lush greenery of New York’s Madison Square Park, now stands a grove of 49 dead Atlantic white cedars. The barren trunks and branches reach four…Continue Reading →
Designing A Monster Snowplow For Vermont Winters
For a number of years now, artists from Vermont Arts Exchange in North Bennington, Vermont, have been painting designs across the town’s snowplows. Last year, Rhonda Ratray, a teaching artist…Continue Reading →
‘Holiday Magic At The Disney Parks’
“Holiday Magic at the Disney Parks: Celebrations Around the World from Fall to Winter” by Graham Allan, Rebecca Cline and Charlie Prince (Disney Editions) is a big, lavishly illustrated, 384-page photo…Continue Reading →
Best Christmas Decorations Around Greater Boston
Below is Wonderland’s guide to dazzling holiday decorations around greater Boston, from Attleboro to Somerville (listed by community, in alphabetical order). This is based on several years exploring region during…Continue Reading →
Andy Mack’s Farm Stand Signs Sell Apples, Spark Controversy
“It is the best place in town for a display, but it just happens to be our land,” Andy Mack Sr. told the Eagle Tribune newspaper in 2007. Mack runs…Continue Reading →
Wah Lum Mural Honors ‘Unity And Solidarity’
In the spring, Wah Lum Kung Fu & Thai Chi Academy in Malden closed, like so many other businesses, to help stem the spread of coronavirus. The windows were boarded…Continue Reading →
Brazilian Carnival Celebrated In Somerville Mural
Brazilian carnival is the subject of the mural “Doña Patria” that Alexandre Keto completed in Somerville in October. The Sao Paulo-raised, Maryland-based artist says the painting at 102 Broadway, on…Continue Reading →
Ducklings At Boston Garden Wear Lace Collars To Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Yesterday evening, the bronze “Make Way for Ducklings” statues at Boston’s Public Garden got outfitted in (faux) lace collars in tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the United States Supreme Court…Continue Reading →
‘Black Lives Matter’ Street Mural Painted In Somerville
Just Us Somerville, with the support of the City of Somerville and the Somerville Arts Council, led a volunteer effort to paint a Black Lives Matter mural at the intersection…Continue Reading →