Arts
A Glowing, Swaying Field of 28,000 Lights Is Sprouting in the Seaport
For the third year in a row, a giant glowing art exhibition is on its way to the Seaport this winter. This latest spectacle, which […]
Bob Dylan’s Lowell Show Is More Than a Concert: It’s a Requiem for Jack Kerouac
In the extended twilight of his career, Bob Dylan is playing a concert in Lowell on Tuesday night, and in so doing, paying tribute to […]
A Photo Guide to Boston’s Growing Public Art Scene
Chances are you’ve seen Rob Gibbs’s work before and didn’t even know it. After all, the prolific mural artist, who goes by the name Problak, […]
The Founders of Spaceus Are Exploring New Ways to Exhibit Art
Stephanie Lee: While we were studying architecture at MIT, Ellen and I began to have conversations about local institutions’ lack of support for creativity. As […]
Photo Opp Alert: Four Giant Flower Sculptures Have Sprouted at Assembly Row
While we might be slowly and inevitably crawling toward the cold season, this is one garden that won’t be going anywhere as the temperature drops. Assembly […]
Get Your Camera Ready: The Infinity Mirror Room at the ICA Has Arrived
It’s a remarkable feat that at age 90, Yayoi Kusama has achieved stardom on Instagram, even more so considering that the vision behind her work […]
Get Ready to See More Work by Women Artists at the MFA
What do John Singer Sargent, John Singleton Copley, and Winslow Homer have in common? All are painters, all are featured prominently in the MFA’s “Art of the Americas” […]
A New Boston Common Photo Exhibit Explores the Stories of Former Gang Members
For Mayor Marty Walsh, it was alcoholism. For Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, it was trauma. For NFL broadcaster Andrea Kramer, sexism. Everyone knows that success doesn’t always […]
Vanessa Platacis Is Spray Painting the Peabody Essex Museum for Taking Place
As an emerging street artist,Vanessa Platacis used to wander the streets of Boston at night, adorning both public and private walls with stenciled and spray painted […]
A MassArt Grad Is Trying to Brighten Kids’ Hospital Stays
There’s nothing more dreary than a hospital, from the walls to the chairs, and even to what the patients wear. Everyone’s familiar with the indignity […]
Get Ready for a Free Family Day at the ICA Watershed
The Institute of Contemporary Art’s Watershed location is committed to making friends with its new neighbors in East Boston. The museum has just announced that […]
A Stunning Wind-Blown “Skynet” Is Dangling Over New Bedford
Consider this one (more) reason to head down to the South Coast this summer: For the rest of the season, a windblown “Skynet” made of 40,000 plastic streamers will […]
The MFA’s World of Make Believe Is Ethereal and Unsettling
This month, the MFA is exploring the stories we were told as children—and, unlike the way your parents read you fairy tales as a child, they’re […]
Celebrate New Murals at Underground at Ink Block with DJs, Fitness, and Food Trucks
It’s not every weekend that you want to check out the views beneath the I-93 overpass, but if you want to hide away from the […]
Archive of Mind Invites You to Play with Clay at the Peabody Essex Museum
Most of us abandoned playing with clay around the same time we stopped playing with dolls and dress-up clothes. But in the eyes of Korean artist […]