Exploring Culture & Innovation
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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If the past summer has proven anything it’s that when art and science are brought together amazing things will happen. It was hard to know what to expect heading over towards Fenway Park around 7pm on October 10th. I knew that there would be light based installations but that was pretty much it. Turning onto…
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The Isles Arts Initiative is a summer long public art series installed on George’s and Spectacle Island. With the main installation on Spectacle Island titled “Seen/Unseen” running from July 11 – August 22, and “Cove” and the installation on Georges Island running from July 11 – August 26 the public art on display aims to…
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When it was announced that a Pop-up Art Grove in Franklin Park was planned for August, my curiosity was piqued. In the past few years, the City of Boston has been working hard to revitalize the area with an ambitious agenda of rotating public art installations but this was the first time I’d ever heard…
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