The artist’s new show ‘Cookout’ looks at life (and heaven) through the lens of shared meals
INTERVIEW: ZACH HORN
Visual Arts
GTFO WORCESTER: THE ICONIC JERSEY
It’s not too late to catch this home-run exhibition that’s about a whole lot more than only baseball at the Worcester Art Museum
GALLERY VISIT: WISE & SHAAK AT FOUNTAIN STREET
“This show is about the idea of transforming … Moving from paintings to coming off the walls, standing in the gallery sculpturally, to being in the world.”
WRITING THE FUTURE: BASQUIAT AND THE HIP-HOP GENERATION CONTINUES AT MFA
With Boston’s major moment extended through July, a longer look at the impact of an iconic exhibition
BETTER BOSTON ARTS: JAINA CIPRIANO
“The solution lies in collaborative spaces”
VIDEO: ARTISTS VS PANDEMIC
Performing artists are facing particularly high unemployment in this COVID-wracked year of 2020. Alison Qu, Jude Torres and Alexa Albanese are Boston local artists who live under this pandemic. These interviews were conducted between September to November. Here is a video for their stories during this unprecedented time.
WOKE IN PROGRESS III: DEAFENING SILENCE AT BOSTON’S TWO BEST-KNOWN ART MUSEUMS
Though hundreds in the Boston area signed the June 2020 Open Letter from Boston Arts and Cultural Workers in Demand of Racial Equity and Social Transformation that began this inquiry, listing their professional affiliations along with their names on the petition, many have been reluctant to talk about what they or their institutions have done or plan to do since making these commitments.
BETTER BOSTON ARTS: MICHAEL LEWY
Being “paid with exposure” does not work. “You can die of exposure.”
CARTOON: HYBRID ART CLASS!
(1st week in the elementary art room)
BETTER BOSTON ARTS: SUMEYA ALI
Addressing the lack of representation of young Black and Brown artists
