Maria Molteni often operates at the intersection of art and craft and feminism and athletics. Her latest project is a visionary mural of moons, lightning and a roiling sea painted…Continue Reading →
Some weeks back I found myself struggling to phrase what suddenly seemed like a delicate question: Have you seen Uranus? Actually, I didn’t get a chance to ask the question…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 →
Boston has long been criticized for having too many bronze monuments to white guys. Or in the words of Boston Globe columnist Yvonne Abraham: “stodgy legions of bronze figures depicting…Continue Reading →
Chicago artist Matthew Hoffman’s “May This Never End”—a 319-foot-long text artwork that debuted along Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway in 2016—has a new home, the City of Boston reports. The yellow…Continue Reading →
“I wanted my sculptures to be outdoors in parks, where people of all ages could touch and enjoy them,” writes Nancy Schön, the West Newton artist best known for her…Continue Reading →
Trailblazing feminist artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles (far right) was up here from New York last week to plan projects with the Cambridge Arts Council (one of my day jobs)–and I…Continue Reading →
Matthew Hinçman—the Boston sculptor behind the iconic Jamaica Pond Bench (pictured above) and a guerrilla memorial to Trayvon Martin at the corner of Eliot and Centre streets in Jamaica Plain’s…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 →
Sun Banner painted by Greg Cook displayed at Harold Parker State Forest in Andover, Massachusetts, July 22, 2017. Painting and photograph copyright 2017 Greg Cook. Thanks to Kari Percival for…Continue Reading →