What Isabella Stewart Gardner Saw On Her Travels
After the death of their 20-month-old son Jackie in 1865, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack sought solace by traveling the world by boat, train and foot. They traveled…Continue Reading →
After the death of their 20-month-old son Jackie in 1865, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack sought solace by traveling the world by boat, train and foot. They traveled…Continue Reading →
“These works are small scale visual odes to the power and terror of the ocean,” Boston artist Kathy Bitetti writes of her exhibition of collages “The Sea Hates a Coward”…Continue Reading →
Photos of the Wake Up the Earth Festival at South-West Corridor Park at Stony Brook in Jamaica Plain, Boston, today. The festival was founded in 1979 to celebrate a grassroots…Continue Reading →
“Gradually and silently the charm comes over us; we know not exactly where or how” reads a moss installation by Heidi Schork and Jerome Jones at Boston’s Jamaica Pond, quoting…Continue Reading →
For some months now, we’ve been studying the Great Magnolia Swamp at Ravenswood Park in Gloucester, which is overseen by The Trustees of Reservations, for a documentary video we’re developing.…Continue Reading →
“Who owns the atmosphere?” “Who owns the street?” “Who owns the power?” “Who owns community?” These are some of the questions written on small, flat boxes arrayed across the lawn…Continue Reading →
“We not only garden with seeds and plants and flowers, but we garden in our communities with souls and minds and hearts,” Boston artist Ekua Holmes said of the temporary,…Continue Reading →
“We think of history as human because our experience of time is very much predicated by memory, but the world around us has longer history,” says Firelei Báez, a New…Continue Reading →
“In Western art, it is common to have the theme of the mother and child but the theme of male bonding is much less common,” Edmund Barry Gaither, director and…Continue Reading →
A clock shaped a bit like an exclamation point, with a bronze sun shining at the center of its black face, has kept time inside Boston’s Old North Church since…Continue Reading →