“We have many years of recorded experience coming from the male perspective—the aspirations, the desires, the struggles of what it’s like to be a man. The female component to that…Continue Reading →
The top amount greater Boston artists can receive from Creative City Boston—a grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts building from its Creative City program—will double to $20,000,…Continue Reading →
Kimberly Witham’s exhibition “On Beauty,” at Boston’s Gallery Kayafas from March 1 to April 6, 2019, offer lush still-life photos from 2017 and ’18. Her “On Beauty” series is sweet…Continue Reading →
The first thing you come upon at “Love Superior, a Death Supreme”—the exhibition by sisters Caitlin and Nicole Duennebier (“Nicole is three years older than me and when we were…Continue Reading →
Kahlo’s riveting 1940 painting “Self-Portrait with Hummingbirds and Thorn Necklace” is all the reason you need to see “Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts from…Continue Reading →
Jackie Shane—the electrifying soul singer, black cult heroine, and transgender pioneer—died this week in Nashville at age 78. “Any Other Way,” a box set of Shane’s music released in 2017…Continue Reading →
“I know places by walking them,” Kathleen Bitetti says. For a decade and a half, the Boston artist and community organizer has been retracing the steps of Massachusetts legends Abigail…Continue Reading →
“Let us create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist,” Walter Gropius wrote in the 1919 manifesto to launch…Continue Reading →
During Joan Jonas’s 2017 residency at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the pioneering 82-year-old video and performance artist found herself attracted to animals. She photographed real and mythological critters she…Continue Reading →
This week the American Library Association announced that Boston artist Ekua Holmes had again won its Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books…Continue Reading →