In May, Boston artist Cedric “Vise1” Douglas painted an 125-foot-long mural on one of the buildings of the former Medfield State Hospital off Hospital Road there, at the back of…Continue Reading →
In the spring, Wah Lum Kung Fu & Thai Chi Academy in Malden closed, like so many other businesses, to help stem the spread of coronavirus. The windows were boarded…Continue Reading →
Brazilian carnival is the subject of the mural “Doña Patria” that Alexandre Keto completed in Somerville in October. The Sao Paulo-raised, Maryland-based artist says the painting at 102 Broadway, on…Continue Reading →
“I wanted to share this idea of home, with the community, with the city of Somerville,” Imagine (Sneha Shrestha), a Nepali artist living in Somerville, said of the calligraphic mural…Continue Reading →
“I grew up on Lenox Street, 69 B Lennox St., born and raised,” Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs tells me. “I was traveling between Lenox and Orchard Park housing projects.” He’d wait…Continue Reading →
On Saturday, Dutch artist Stefan Thelen—known by his anti-superhero identity Super A—began painting a mural depicting a barn swallow crashing out of a bell jar. It rises several stories high…Continue Reading →
In August 1967, a group of 14 African American artists began painting a 60-foot-wide mural on the side of a run-down tavern at the corner of 43rd Street and Langley…Continue Reading →
David Owen Beyers has been painting a mural in one of the bathrooms at Dorchester Art Project in Boston. The New York-based artist describes the scenes as “a mix of…Continue Reading →
Caldecott Medal-winning children’s book illustrator Ed Emberley visited Malden last night to celebrate the debut of a new mural inspired by his 1970 “Drawing Book of Animals.” “The fact that…Continue Reading →
Vanessa Platacis, who you may recall as “PIXNIT,” is back in town this weekend painting a mural on the 7-Eleven in Cambridge’s Central Square. She expects to be working on…Continue Reading →