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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Boston has long been criticized for having too many bronze monuments to white guys. Or in the words of Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham: “stodgy legions of bronze figures depicting…Continue Reading →
Chicago artist Matthew Hoffman’s “May This Never End”—a 319-foot-long text artwork that debuted along Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway in 2016—has a new home, the City of Boston reports. The yellow…Continue Reading →
“I wanted my sculptures to be outdoors in parks, where people of all ages could touch and enjoy them,” writes Nancy Schön, the West Newton artist best known for her…Continue Reading →
Trailblazing feminist artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles (far right) was up here from New York last week to plan projects with the Cambridge Arts Council (one of my day jobs)–and I…Continue Reading →