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GOING POSTAL: A MONTH-LONG SHOW IN DORCHESTER DISPLAYS LITERAL ARTISTIC DELIVERABLES

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 2, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

The graffiti writer’s love for Priority Mail 228 labels is that which a locavore has for a fresh bunch of backyard arugula.

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: 228 labels, Art, Dorchester Art Projects, gallery, graf, graffiti, Priority Mail, tags, usps

GALLERY + INTERVIEW: MAJOR GROUP ART SHOW TAKES AIM AT POLICE VIOLENCE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted November 10, 2016 Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES, Non-fiction, Visual Arts

It can be challenging to make art of any kind that asks people to engage with hard and heavy and ugly issues, but if you look for it there are artists everywhere taking it on.

Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES, Non-fiction, Visual Arts Tagged With: Art, Black Lives Matter, Blackstonian, Boston, Boston Police Department, BPD, Ernie Paniccioli, graffiti, Jacob Leidolf, police brutality, protest art, Scope Urban Apparel

COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: VANDALISM

Written by ERIC BOEKER Posted September 18, 2016 Filed Under: Comics

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URBAN RENEWAL: GRAFFITI ART GIVEN LONGER LIFE IN NEW EXHIBIT

Written by SPENCER SHANNON Posted April 23, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

These vibrant works of art will be allowed to exist without the threat of eradication.

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Arts at the Armory, expression, graffiti, Jeffrey Thomas, samaritans, SOMERVILLE, spray paint, street art, tagging, vandalism

SPEK OF GENIUS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 31, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

A Mass graffiti martyr resurrects for his debut solo show

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Adam Brandt, Boston, Boston Police, CAYPE, graffiti, jail, Mass graf, Salem, spek

SPRING ARTS PREVIEW: WARMING WEATHER MEANS GET OUT AND SEE SOME ART

Written by SPENCER SHANNON Posted March 15, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

A few choice picks of the local visual art splendor that awaits you through spring.

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: blast fest, charlestown working theatre, fukushima, graffiti, MFA, misadvantures spy matthias, spek, spring preview 2015, the uniun, tsunami, visual arts, whitehaus family record

POST ART: DENISE PRICE IS LEADING A SMALL COLLABORATIVE ART MOVEMENT TO THE MAILBOX

Written by SPENCER SHANNON Posted February 26, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

“Everybody who touches it, especially Bostonians, are almost moved by the fact that it’s something more permanent,” Price says of her book’s appeal. “I think that people are moving back towards paper.”

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: armory, art via post, calligraphy, crowd sourced, denise d price, graffiti, illustroators, john magnan, massart, mba, north bennet street school, painting, paper, sculptor, stencil, velcro

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