‘What Brings You Joy?’—Nick Cave Fills Boston Cyclorama With Holiday Inflatables
“This is all that’s going on right now in the world, all this chaos,” Nick Cave tells me during a visit to the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the…Continue Reading →
‘Coded’ At BCA: Art To ‘Recontextualize, Reimagine And Upend Various Forms Of Codes’
“A code is defined as a system for communication or a set of rules to mark, represent or identify something,” curator Alexandria Smith writes about the exhibition “Coded,” on view…Continue Reading →
Landmark AIDS Memorial Quilt Joins Annual Boston AIDS Vigil At BCA
Twenty sections from the landmark AIDS Memorial Quilt frame this year’s 27th annual “Medicine Wheel” AIDS vigil. The event begins at 11:30 p.m. tonight and continues for 24 hours at…Continue Reading →
Steve Locke Addresses Freddie Gray, The Boston Library And Boston’s Complicity In Slavery In New Public Artworks
Late last month, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum installed a new public artwork, a giant banner hanging down the facade of its building by Boston artist Steve Locke. It’s titled…Continue Reading →
How To Make A Living As An Artist? Lucas Spivey’s Odyssey To Find The Answers
How can you make a living as an artist? That’s the question Lucas Spivey was again asking when he left a job in Washington state in 2016 and moved back…Continue Reading →
In ‘Rainbow Collapse,’ Fearing Ecological Destruction, Dreaming A ‘Utopian And Impossible’ Future
“Rainbow Collapse”—part of the “Run of the Mills” performance series at the Boston Center for the Arts—“is a piece about working in the gap between what we want and what…Continue Reading →
In SpeakEasy Stage’s ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ What’s It Like To Be The Great Playwright?
In SpeakEasy Stage Company’s “Shakespeare In Love”—being performed at the Boston Center for the Arts Calderwood Pavilion from Jan. 12 to Feb. 10—George Olesky is the actor cast to play…Continue Reading →