The thrill of “Fashioned by Sargent” is 19th century society portrait painter John Singer Sargent’s dashing skill with a brush. I always think of him as an incredibly sure-handed marksman—each…Continue Reading →
Though the first printing press was imported from Europe into the Americas around 1554, to Mexico City, and Harvard got the first printing press in the English colonies in 1639,…Continue Reading →
The Society of the Madonna Della Cava held their 103 anniversary Feast in Boston’s North End on Aug. 11 to 13, with a procession of a banner of the saint…Continue Reading →
J’Ouvert means “breaking of the dawn,” according to organizers of Boston’s annual Caribbean-American Carnival. The Carnival parade, held this afternoon, is marking its 50th year. But the day began with…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 →