
“It was a 1993, I think. I loved that car. It got to be 276,000 miles and the air conditioning went out, and when I took it to my guy who’d kept it running for years he said all the hoses had disintegrated because of old age.”
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Written by GREG COOK Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
“It was a 1993, I think. I loved that car. It got to be 276,000 miles and the air conditioning went out, and when I took it to my guy who’d kept it running for years he said all the hoses had disintegrated because of old age.”
Written by M.J. TIDWELL Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
For 260 hours under the cover of darkness, Dan Masi painted.
Over six months, entirely at night, Masi painted, combining his own artistic style with the colors and themes of Francisco Goya to create a mural that now envelopes the Lilypad collaborative ... read more
Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
Chuck Webster: Pilgrims: Drawings 2017-2018—Steven Zevitas Gallery
The naivete in Chuck Webster’s work is misleading. What looks like pan watercolors and marker doodles on sheets of bond is shellac-based ... read more
Written by CHRISTINA M. TEDESCO Filed Under: A+E, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Visual Arts
For the 20th year in a row, the artists of Somerville will open their doors to the public from Friday, May 4 to Sunday, May 6. Even as we write, living rooms are being converted into galleries, kitchens into showrooms, and studios everywhere are being cleaned ... read more
Written by DAVID CURCIO Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
Playtime—Peabody Essex Museum
You know that you’re in Playtime from the squealing emanating from one of Martin Creed’s ... read more
Written by FRANKLIN EINSPRUCH Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
Extension Gallery has been quietly filling the gap in emerging art presentation in Allston that’s been left vacant more or less since Allston Skirt Gallery and Pan 9 went the way of all things (in these rapidly gentrifying lands).
Its programming this year ... read more
Written by GREG COOK Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
After the 2017 Boston Women’s March, thousands of participants left their protest signs around the iron fence surrounding the Boston Common Central Burying Ground. They were going to be thrown away—until three local teachers came along.
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Written by M.J. TIDWELL Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
A new mixed-media art show co-curated by artist Noah Grigni and the Aviary Gallery in Jamaica Plain delves into the many faceted experiences of displacement, while raising money for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico where so many people have been physically displaced.
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Written by GREG COOK Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts
“Anytime I say I’m Haitian, I’ve had people look at me and say, ‘You don’t look Haitian,’” photographer Valerie Anselme says.
“It’s not only happened to me, it’s happened to other people I know.”