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Winter Arts Events in Boston: Hugh Hayden and Tony Sarg
Power of the People: Art and Democracy This exhibition at the MFA Boston explores the ways in which art has expressed ideas about democracy throughout […]
Fall Arts Preview: 18 Things We Can’t Wait to Do This Season
September 1. Marvel at the world’s most famous doomed lovers. Ever since Shakespeare premiered Romeo and Juliet in the 1590s, countless theater companies and movie […]
Summer Arts Events in Boston: Jewelry & Fashion Collections
Beyond Brilliance Highlights from the MFA Boston’s vast jewelry collection will, at long last, be on view for the public to see once the Rita […]
16 Things We Can’t Wait to Do This Spring and Early Summer
APRIL 1. Experience symphonies of synesthesia. This month, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is expanding its approach to music by performing for the audience’s ears and […]
Spring Arts Events in Boston: Design Week, Moby Dick & More
Boston Design Week Back and bigger than ever for its 11th year, this multiday design extravaganza seeks to increase public awareness and appreciation of all […]
Fall Arts Preview: 18 Things We Can’t Wait to Do This Season
SEPTEMBER 2023 1. Cheer on a basketball demigod. Being such a bibliophilic city that’s also mad for hoops, Boston and its environs seem a perfect […]
Happenings
Fashioned by Sargent John Singer Sargent, an American expat best known for his evocations of Gilded Age luxury, is considered the most successful portrait painter […]
18 Things We Can’t Wait to Do This Spring and Early Summer
APRIL 1. Catch the biggest wave in Japanese art. Katsushika Hokusai may have been an important artist in the 1800s, but his Great Wave and […]
By the Way, There’s a Work of Art Made of Human Hair in Salem
Hair is such a fundamental element in how we identify ourselves. Whether worn long or short, colored by nature or otherwise, it has long been […]
What’s the Future of Boston Philanthropy?
It’s a tradition as American as apple pie: Every July Fourth since 1974, the Boston Pops have descended on the Hatch Shell for an evening […]
25 Things To See, Do, and Hear This Spring
Nerd out. Were you reading The Witcher long before Netflix came knocking at Henry Cavill’s door? Then this one’s for you. On April 9, the […]
Check Out the Peabody Essex Museum’s New Wing—For Free!
This month, the Peabody Essex Museum debuts its long-awaited, 40,000 square foot new wing—and if you pay it a visit opening weekend, you’ll get to […]
Vanessa Platacis Is Spray Painting the Peabody Essex Museum for Taking Place
As an emerging street artist,Vanessa Platacis used to wander the streets of Boston at night, adorning both public and private walls with stenciled and spray painted […]
Archive of Mind Invites You to Play with Clay at the Peabody Essex Museum
Most of us abandoned playing with clay around the same time we stopped playing with dolls and dress-up clothes. But in the eyes of Korean artist […]
Peabody Essex Museum to Open “PlayTime”
When you think of playtime, images of scattered Legos, a trunk of tutus, or assorted hand puppets may come to mind. Most parents consider play […]