Best of Boston

Armed with high-powered projectors and Samuel Adams’s revolutionary spirit, the shadowy collective Silence Dogood has turned Boston’s most sacred landmarks into canvases for rallying resistance. The group’s nocturnal light shows—blazing “You can’t bring hell to Boston" across the Old State House and taunting “Don’t make us get this party started" over the water by the Boston Tea Party museum—merge 21st-century projection mapping with centuries-old defiance. Named after young Benjamin Franklin’s pseudonym, they’re reminding a city built on rebellion that powerful acts of protest can still happen here, one illuminated brick at a time.