From our review of “Alex Lukas: Recent Works” at Steven Zevitas Gallery in Boston: The skies are seared gray and scuffed by clouds that could be smoke from toxic fires along the horizon. ...
Thursday, May 31, noon Artists in Context hosts artist Taiga Ermansons as she facilitates an 15-minute “emancipated collective dialogue” about a painting at the Smith College Museum of Art, fol...
Providence video game company 38 Studios laid off all its employees yesterday, according to reports. The financial troubles of the company, founded by former Red Sox ace Curt Schilling (at left), bec...
Beginning 1982, Steven Rubin hitchhiked into Maine’s poor, rural Somerset County to document folks there in the manner of classic black and white documentary photography. Now on view at Los Angeles’s...
We’re sorry to hear that the scrappy Boston gallery Yes.Oui.Si has announced that it will be closing, at least temporarily, beginning in June. The gallery reports: “We are writing you to ...
Government loan to video game company in jeopardy? Financial concerns have arisen around millionaire former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s video game company 38 Studios in Providence after th...
Monday, May 14, 7:30 p.m. Sprout holds a spaghetti dinner and discussion on the theme of “musical pedgogies” at 339R Summer St., Somerville, Massachusetts. Tuesday, May 15, 5:30 p.m. The Hive Archive...
The annual Duckling Day Parade—inspired by Robert McCloskey’s book “Make Way for Ducklings”—hosted by the Friends of the Public Garden today from Boston Common to the Public Garden, as photographed b...
The great hand-painted signs on Woody’s Tire Service in Everett, Massachusetts, as photographed by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research.
Security guards at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts are protesting museum leaders’ proposal to outsource 119 union guard jobs at the museum. “Hey, Malcolm, you’ve got cash, why do you treat your workers ...
Tuesday, May 8, 7 p.m. Maine filmmaker Nancy Andrews screens new work and discusses delirium with with Michael Belkin, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Division of Vascular Surgery and Samat...
“You’re throwing away the crud that accumulates in your heart and your mind over the winter,” Associate Dean Vereene Parnell explained to hundreds of students as they began Wheaton College’s seventh ...
Monday, April 30, 7 p.m. Architectural designer Anna Heringer speaks at Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St., Watertown, Massachusetts. Free. Tuesday, May 1, 6 p.m. BSA Space hosts a “Curator...
Japanese organizations from around Boston hosted the Haru Matsuri Japan Spring Festival at Copley Square in Boston today as part of the Greater Boston-Japan Cherry Blossom Festival. Photos by The New...
Hundreds participated in the second annual Boston’s Wounded Vet Ride this afternoon from Boston Harley Davidson in Everett to the Italian American War Veterans Post 6 in East Boston, Massachuse...
Boston’s Edgar Allan Poe Foundation, in collaboration with the city of Boston, has selected New York state sculptor Stefanie Rocknak to create a life-sized bronze statue of Poe (design depicted...
Monday, April 23, 4:30 p.m. Nancy Selvage speaks at UMass Lowell classroom O’Leary 222 somewhere around 71 Wilder St., Lowell, Massachusetts. Monday, April 23, 7 p.m. Michael Eng of Ohio’s John Carro...
The 11th annual Brown University Spring Thaw Pow Wow held in Providence on Saturday, April 14, as photographed by The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research.
Plus new military robot tech from iRobot Boston Dynamics in Waltham, Massachusetts, is developing a humanoid robot that climbs stairs, can regain its balance after being shoved, and do pushups (see v...
They say the Devil once set foot on the North Green of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and left his trace in a granite outcropping in front of where the First Church (Congregational United Church of Christ) ...
Wednesday, April 18, 11:30 a.m. Photo scholar and curator Leslie K. Brown speaks at Montserrat College of Art, 23 Essex St., Beverly, Massachusetts. Free. Wednesday, April 18, 6:30 p.m. Nathaniel Ray...
The Massachusetts Tea Party Coalition held its “Patriots Day Rally” on Boston Common today. Gay rights activists stood at the back protesting the rally. Photos by The New England Journal ...
The Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Massachusetts, is seeking submissions for its annual “Off the Wall” juried exhibit this summer. The deadline to apply is tomorrow, April 13. Deta...
Monday, April 9, 7 p.m. MIT professor Muntadas speaks about “Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology” at MIT’s Art, Culture and Technology Cube, Wiesner Building, 20 Ames Street, Ca...
They say that during the worst of the 1633 plague the residents of Oberammergau, Germany, pledged to perform a play recounting the last days of Jesus every ten years if God would spare them. So begin...
Figment Boston 2012 is seeking submissions for its June 2 and 3 festival of performances and installations on Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway. We heard about “its mission to offer free, in...
Monday, April 2, 9 a.m. The John Nicholas Brown Center presents “Collaborative Communities: Why We Need Them and How They Are Created” with Christina Bevilacqua of the Providence Athenaeum and Amy Gr...
Caldecott Honor winning author and artist Mo Willems of Northampton, Massachusetts, isn’t necessarily a great drawer. What makes him one of the great children’s book creators today is his feel for ch...
Cesareo R. Pelaez, popularly known as “Marco the Magi,” one of the stars and founding producer of long-running “Le Grand David and his own Spectacular Magic Company” in Beverly, Mas...
One of the newer traditions of the St. Peter’s Fiesta, the Catholic fishing festival in Gloucester, Massachusetts, each June, is the “Crazy Hat Ladies.” It began 18 years ago, Massa...
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