“Hip-hop was never meant to be here,” Moe Pope told the crowd of family, friends, and artistic associates who came out for the event.
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GOING POSTAL: A MONTH-LONG SHOW IN DORCHESTER DISPLAYS LITERAL ARTISTIC DELIVERABLES
The graffiti writer’s love for Priority Mail 228 labels is that which a locavore has for a fresh bunch of backyard arugula.
MY RESOLUTION: TO RECOVER THE BUST THAT WAS STOLEN FROM MASS AND IS SITTING IN STORAGE AT THE LACMA
Since state leaders, LACMA directors, and even the Beacon Hill auction house that sold the Brooks bust have all stonewalled me over the past eight years, I have resolved to do whatever it takes (so long as it’s legal) to get the bust back for Mass in the new year.
NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW
Nine Moments for Now at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art
Outside, in a street-level window, set a bit back from the entrance, are five Karmimadeebora McMillan pieces, all collages and paint on wood. Four of the five pieces are part of McMillan’s Ms Merri Mack series. These reworked echoes of racist lawn ornaments, ...
UNLESS: MASSIVE PIECE OF ART TELLS SIMPLE MESSAGE ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
REVIEW: THE LIGHT OF MIDNIGHT FUNK
Curtis Williams is Black, independent, and illustrating with a fiercely uninhibited nonconformist mentality.
BOSTON ART BOOK FAIR: THE ONLY PLACE YOU’LL FIND MIT AND AN ALLSTON ZINE MAKER EXHIBITING
The three-day celebration will shine spotlights on culture from the Boston area and beyond, plus pack plenty of panels and signings with book makers galore.
CREATE SPACE: A BELOVED CHEF BRINGS ART AND COCKTAIL VISION TO BOW MARKET
“When we make decisions for Create,” says DiBiccari, “every decision goes through the same filter and we ask ourselves, Does this help develop a larger platform for artists?"
MORE FUN, LESS STRESS: THE ANNUAL REPAINTING OF MARK ALSTON-FOLLANSBEE’S ART CAR
“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.”
LIFE AS A HUNGRY GHOST
Extension Gallery’s 2018 season is off to a haunting start
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 ...