Collage that avoids cliché at 1369 Coffee House
Collages are popular in the age of social media and can feel cliché, but Marg has mastered the form – injecting a sense of humor and play that feels fresh.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from the Foundry Festival to asking about AI
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a weeklong Foundry Festival with a variety of things to do, astounding art, ice skating, a Ladysmith Black Mambazo performance and a dramatic session exploring “What if AI use goes too far?”
Melissa Glick’s 24-hour ‘Hacker Creations’
Melissa Glick’s work has echoes in the outdated gear her dad used to bring home from Raytheon. Her “Hacker Creations” use what she finds in breaking apart old tech.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, with hip-hop dancing and writing sex scenes
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s hip-hop dance, Valentine’s, Galentine’s, Mardi Gras, Lunar New Year and Black History celebrations, operatic ballet not seen since the 1700s, “How to Steal a Presidential Election” and the arts of writing love poetry and sex scenes.
Friedman-Pappas’ and Shin’s haunted travelog
The artists’ work, up for another week, explores the unsettling quality of tourist destinations, translating their experiences into a sort of haunted travelog.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from We Black Folk fest to ‘Bumbled’ bee play
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a “Groundhog Day” Improv Show, We Black Folk music festival, a fermentation workshop (with sauerkraut!) and more fun science, Celeste Ng and Jas Hammonds readings, ice skating and play premieres to go apiary for (such as for “Bumbled”).
Go to Boston for Emack’s ‘Book of Saints’ photos and open eyes to what’s happening in Cambridge
Though the “Book of Saints” photography exhibit is in Boston, it couldn’t be more about Cambridge. The show is by Cambridge photographer Kristen Joy Emack and invites viewers to contemplate the impact of innovation-driven gentrification here.
Michael Talbot’s ‘While We’re Still Here’
Images of hands holding flowers explore paying your respects to people while they’re still here. Not all of Michael Talbot’s inspirations are.
Somerville’s Sneha Shrestha illuminates Worcester’s Cantor Gallery starting Feb. 1
Known for her sweeping, calligraphic murals that depict the Nepali alphabet, Shrestha has murals in Central Square and across Greater Boston.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from Oompa and Picasso to ImprovBoston’s end
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, from “Underground Magic,” poetry with Tracy K. Smith and an Oompa concert to the return of the Harvard Plaza WinterFest, a farewell to ImprovBoston and examination of the darker sides of politics and social media.
