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 →
The story goes that the two-millennia-old Farnese Sarcophagus was so heavy that in 1901 Isabella Stewart Gardner had the marble coffin hauled in and built her museum around it. For…Continue Reading →
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 →
Fra Angelico, the 15th century Dominican Catholic friar, “was one of the most revolutionary painters of his moment, in part because of the way he told stories,” says Nathaniel Silver,…Continue Reading →
On Tuesday morning, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum hung a new three-story tall banner on its Evans Way façade. “Global Displacement 1 In 100 People Worldwide Are Displaced From Their…Continue Reading →
“Melaza” (Molasses), the new work from the Boston-based social justice oriented dance theater company Danza Organica, addresses the United States’ colonial oppression of Puerto Rico. “We shed light on the…Continue Reading →