“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 →
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 →
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 →
There’s no question that the Citgo sign that shines above Kenmore Square is one of the landmarks of Boston. But Tuesday’s vote by the Boston Landmarks Commission to grant official…Continue Reading →
Halloween is a most wonderful time of year—that season when the lengthening nights make us suspect that the boundaries between living and dead and other sinister creatures grow porous, and…Continue Reading →
Just north of Laurel Street, along a dirt section of the “Bike to the Sea” Northern Strand Community Trail in Saugus, Massachusetts, is a garden that’s always in bloom. Located…Continue Reading →
This morning, if all goes according to plan, an artificial coral reef—conceived by Fitchburg artist Jerry Beck of The Revolving Museum and crafted by more than 50 artists, kids and…Continue Reading →
“Katie Gradowski called them ‘displacement dollhouses,’ which I thought was kind of cute,” Somerville artist Dina Gjertsen tells me about the dioramas she’s been making lately. At Martha Friend’s Friend-Smithsonian…Continue Reading →
The title of Boston artist Stephanie Cardon’s public artwork “Unless”—installed in the main entrance of the Prudential Center shopping mall at 800 Boylston St. through November—comes from Dr. Seuss’s 1971…Continue Reading →
“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 →