First Look At Three New Somerville Murals
“I wanted to share this idea of home, with the community, with the city of Somerville,” Imagine (Sneha Shrestha), a Nepali artist living in Somerville, said of the calligraphic mural…Continue Reading →
Artist Cages Duckling Statues In Boston Public Garden To Protest Abuse Of Immigrants
Well before dawn last Friday morning, Karyn Alzayer snuck a group of miniature cages into Boston’s Public Garden via “a couple different vehicles.” The Malden artist had fashioned the tiny…Continue Reading →
Steve Locke Abandons Planned Boston Slavery Memorial After NAACP Criticism
Boston artist Steve Locke says he is abandoning his proposed “Auction Block Memorial” for Boston’s Faneuil Hall due to criticism from the Boston branch of the National Association for the…Continue Reading →
First Look At Rob ‘ProBlak’ Gibbs’ New Roxbury Mural ‘Breathe Life 3’
“I grew up on Lenox Street, 69 B Lennox St., born and raised,” Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs tells me. “I was traveling between Lenox and Orchard Park housing projects.” He’d wait…Continue Reading →
First Look At The New Mural Going Up On Boston’s Greenway
On Saturday, Dutch artist Stefan Thelen—known by his anti-superhero identity Super A—began painting a mural depicting a barn swallow crashing out of a bell jar. It rises several stories high…Continue Reading →
This New Crosswalk Is An Optical Illusion To (Hopefully) Slow Cars
The question was how to slow traffic around Medford’s Brooks Elementary School to make it safer for students. Last year, fourth-grader Eric Dobson and his third-grade partner Isa were in…Continue Reading →
Fox, Bear And Deer Mural Is Part Of The Public Art Sprouting In Arlington
Families of fox and bears and deer meander around the brick exterior of Arlington’s Fox Library in Eileen de Rosas’s temporary mural, which went up in December. A school of…Continue Reading →
Monumental Hugging Arms Selected As Memorial To MLK On Boston Common
“The Embrace”—a pair of monumental hugging arms—has been selected to become a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King on Boston Common as soon as next year.…Continue Reading →
Pioneering Video And Performance Artist Joan Jonas Draws At The Gardner
During Joan Jonas’s 2017 residency at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the pioneering 82-year-old video and performance artist found herself attracted to animals. She photographed real and mythological critters she…Continue Reading →
Walsh To Veto Landmark Status For Citgo Sign As Real Estate Deal Protects It
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh will veto the Boston Landmarks Commission’s vote to grant landmark status to the Citgo sign in Boston’s Kenmore Square after a real estate developer agrees to…Continue Reading →