Museums Begin To Reopen: A Schedule
Most Massachusetts museums are planning to reopen in the next week or two, after having been closed since mid-March to stem the spread of coronavirus. Governor Charlie Baker has moved…Continue Reading →
Food Aid To East Boston Families Continues At ICA’s Watershed
The Institute of Contemporary Art plans to continue to use the Watershed, its seasonal exhibition space in East Boston, as a site to distribute food to families struggling with the…Continue Reading →
Shepard Fairey Returns To Providence: ‘It’s Pretty Punk Rock To Try To Unite’
Shepard Fairey—one of the most famous street artists in the world, known for his “Obey” Andre the Giant graphics to his Obama “Hope” posters—has been in Providence this week to…Continue Reading →
First Look Inside Yayoi Kusama's Psychedelic 'Infinity Room' At Boston's ICA
The mirrored door of the white box opens and you enter into Yayoi Kusama’s universe. Polka dotted tentacles, lit from within with changing rainbow hues, curl down from the shiny…Continue Reading →
Remembering Cambridge Animator Karen Aqua With Live-Soundtrack Screening Performed By Her Husband
“Once I saw my drawings move, it was a big magical connection,” Cambridge animator Karen Aqua told The Boston Globe in 1994. “It is a really addicting experience, to see…Continue Reading →
Immigration, Violence, Labor: ‘Political Metaphors’ Underlying Choreographer William Forsythe’s Interactive Sculptures
In “William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects”—an exhibition highlighting interactive sculptures by the celebrated Vermont choreographer—you’re invited to try to cross a room filled with swinging pendulums without getting bumped. Or to…Continue Reading →
Steve Locke Addresses Freddie Gray, The Boston Library And Boston’s Complicity In Slavery In New Public Artworks
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 →
Photos: Look Inside The Watershed, The ICA’s New East Boston Outpost
On July 4, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art will debut a satellite outpost on the East Boston waterfront, across the harbor from the museum’s Seaport/Innovation District home. Called the ICA…Continue Reading →
Arts Leaders Of Color Panel: ‘How Do You Make A Majority-Minority City Not So Segregated?’
In 1970, nearly 70 percent of Boston’s population was white. But according to a 2014 Boston Redevelopment Authority Report, these days, whites account for 47 percent of Boston’s residents—making it…Continue Reading →
ICA To End Nixon Exhibition Early At The Photographers’s Request, Deletes Online Forum
The Institute of Contemporary Art will close its exhibition “Nicholas Nixon: Persistence of Vision” tomorrow—at the request of the famous Brookline artist, who has been facing allegations of “allegations of…Continue Reading →