Currently up now at Proof Gallery in South Boston is Boston Does Boston Six— a group exhibition featuring six artists either living or working in the city. The exhibition is organized around artists choosing one another, resulting, according to the…
The Boston Society of Architects in partnership with the City of Boston has selected The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab Complex as the 2012 winner of the Harleston Parker Medal Award. Established in 1921 by Boston architect J.…
Few people think of New England as a destination for fashion exhibits. While it may be true that no major city in this region is host to an internationally known Fashion Week, many of our gateway cities were once major…
I remember why I wrote that short paper on Maya Lin for my Introduction to Architecture course in college. I wrote it because I admired Lin’s resiliency during the moments leading up to and after the completion of the…
Charles White, Trumpet Player, charcoal and gouache on board, 1959-60. Estimate $100,000 to $150,000 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) plans to auction a significant group of works by African-American artists to benefit its permanent collection, according to…
Call Box 1231 – Photo courtesy of Boston Fire Historical Society. If you’ve stood on a corner in Beacon Hill, the North End, Downtown, the Back Bay or other parts of Boston, you may have noticed one of 2,200…
A little less than four years ago when it was suggested that I use Twitter for work purposes, I immediately shrugged and didn’t give it a chance. Fast forward to two years later, I joined Twitter mostly to promote my…
Photo: Harry Heleotis Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, the first-ever to win in 1970 the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism, has died at 91. Through her passionate and articulate writings, Ms. Huxtable paved the way for many of us…
In case you aren’t on twitter, I sometimes tweet about sneakers and very often rant about preservation and Brutalism. I love all three things mentioned above and I’m a passionate advocate for the preservation of the concrete buildings from the…
I’m always on the lookout for mobile apps whose goals are to help people explore the built environment and landscapes of historical significance. The National Park Service (NPS) recently introduced an official app to the Boston National Historical Park…
These are hard times for historic house museums. According to research conducted by the Pew Charitable Trust in 2008, there are more than 15,000 historic house museums in the United States (see footnote for more information on this statistic). This…
Art education in public schools seems nonexistent today, and I personally experienced very little of it while attending Boston Public Schools. Small community-based organizations have taken on the role of bringing art education to inner-city neighborhoods, shouldering the job that…
In 1974, at the eve of the national bicentennial, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum—then known as the deCordova Museum—organized a major survey of New England buildings completed between 1963 and November 10, 1974, the exhibition’s opening. With New…
The Dorchester Arts Collaborative has signed a 5-year lease for 1200 square feet of gallery, performance, classroom and workshop space in Four Corners. Founded in 2002 by Rosanne Foley and Joyce Linehan as a membership organization, the Dorchester Arts Collaborative…
Robert Campbell doesn’t lecture very often, but when he does, he packs the house. Boston’s own Pulitzer-winning architecture critic delighted and mesmerized the audience during a lecture held at the Boston Public Library on Tuesday November 13. Campbell joined notable…
The Boston Public Library has been organizing some very exciting events for years, but none more exciting than Building Boston—a citywide celebration of Boston’s public spaces. According to the BPL Building Boston website, this celebration “explores the stories behind the…
Fifty random points all connected by straight lines: those were the original instructions for Sol Lewitt’s Wall Drawing #118 installed at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1971. It has been re-created and it is the centerpiece…
The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC is set to auction artifacts from the Benjamin Warder House designed by 19th century Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Rumors of the possible auction were circulating throughout various preservation and architectural history…
On Tuesday October 16, 2012 seven paintings from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands were stolen in the early hours of the morning. The stolen paintings are by Picasso, Monet, Matisse and Lucian Freud among others. The works which were…
It’s best to start this piece by confessing that I’ve yet to watch a single episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Smallville, Veronica Mars or one of the Harry Potter franchise movies. The Big Bad, according to Wikipedia…