The Man Who Took Care Of Winnie-The-Pooh’s House
Just north of Harvard Yard in Cambridge sits the Harvard Science Building. And just to its left, on its west side facing toward Cambridge Common, is the stump of a…Continue Reading →
Recreating A Gilded Age Ballroom Outdoors In Boston To Mull Our Economic Future
“Who has access to space, both public and private?” Liz Glynn says she wants to ask with “Open House,” her public artwork on Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue Mall. “What kind of…Continue Reading →
Visiting Mary Nohl’s Enchanted Cottage On The Shore of Lake Michigan
“We wanted to believe a witch lived there,” Jim Stingl, a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, recalled not quite a month after the artist Mary Nohl died in 2001. He’d…Continue Reading →
Maria Molteni Brings Art, Feminism And A Witch To The Basketball Court With Her New Salem Mural
Maria Molteni often operates at the intersection of art and craft and feminism and athletics. Her latest project is a visionary mural of moons, lightning and a roiling sea painted…Continue Reading →
What Happens If You Plant 10,000 Sunflowers At The Heart Of Boston’s Black Community?
Last Friday morning, Ekua Holmes (pictured above) was outside the Grove Hall Public Library in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood with folks from the Urban Farming Institute who were helping her plant hundreds…Continue Reading →
Ed Emberley’s Classic How-To-Draw Book Inspires New Mural In Malden
Caldecott Medal-winning children’s book illustrator Ed Emberley visited Malden last night to celebrate the debut of a new mural inspired by his 1970 “Drawing Book of Animals.” “The fact that…Continue Reading →
Handing Out Roses Around Boston Common To Remember Hundreds Of Black Americans Killed By Police
On Friday afternoon, in the rain, Cedric Douglas and two collaborators stood out on Boylston Street, along the Boston Common, and handed out roses to passers-by. Attached to each stem…Continue Reading →
For Black History Month, Boston Police Celebrate Statue Of White Boss
On Sunday, Universal Hub reported, the Boston Police Department tweeted a photo of the bronze statue of “Red” Auerbach outside Boston’s Faneuil Hall with the department’s comment: “In honor of…Continue Reading →
Have You Seen Jupiter At South Station? Have You Seen Uranus In JP?
Some weeks back I found myself struggling to phrase what suddenly seemed like a delicate question: Have you seen Uranus? Actually, I didn’t get a chance to ask the question…Continue Reading →
New Public Art At Gardner Museum Aims To Bring Attention To Refugee Crisis
On Tuesday morning, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum hung a new three-story tall banner on its Evans Way façade. “Global Displacement 1 In 100 People Worldwide Are Displaced From Their…Continue Reading →