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 →
The April 6, 1970, issue of Time magazine arrived with a portrait of Jessie Jackson on the cover painted by Jacob Lawrence and the headline “Black America 1970.” Inside was…Continue Reading →
Jessica Straus ruminates on love and war in “TransAtlantic,” the Newton artist’s installation at Boston Sculptors Gallery from Dec. 12, 2018, to Jan. 27, 2019. Maps of eastern North America…Continue Reading →
Tim McCool’s art has often been animated by a sardonic humor, like his greeting cards that read “Best wishes, I guess,” but the Boston artist’s new show isn’t about punch…Continue Reading →
“I’m particularly interested in the unexpected, unanticipated, unlikely events that can often take place in our lives,” artist David A. Lang once said. “David A. Lang: Flights of Fancy,” at…Continue Reading →