Exploring Culture & Innovation
A little Art can go along way. I don’t know what I expected as I headed into East Boston, with my facemask on, for the first time in honestly a very long time, but after the extensive lockdown and doing the same walks around my neighborhood on a seemingly endless loop, I definitely needed a…
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I have always loved Street art. It is one of the things I am most passionate about and totally fascinated by. There is something about its subversive nature, the unfiltered messages, its at times unsanctioned appearance, and the fact that it is often one of the few places that gives a voice to the unheard…
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One of my favourite things about art is its ability to transcend demographics and open up dialogue about a range of issues. In this day and age few topics are more polarizing than climate change and the challenge we face as we try to understand our growing impact on the environment, and the impact our…
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There is something pleasantly disquieting about Nick Cave’s “Augment,” which is now on view at the Cyclorama in Boston’s South End. It is colorful, enormous, jarring, and surreal, and in a way it almost looks like something you would expect to see in the Upside-Down. The lawn ornaments which have been sewn together into five…
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After getting his start as a busker on the streets of Boston, Gene Shinozaki has gone on to become a world class professional beatboxer, musician, performer and artist. He sat down with me recently via telephone to answer a few questions abou the state of beatboxing and what he has planned for the upcoming All…
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*Guest post by Anna Rae ©2017. *Illustration by Kip Lyall Not long ago I was on a walk with a friend of mine who is a male musician. I was railing about the fact that young females are forced to think about adorning their bodies and pandering for male attention, while young males are…
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