Burst pipes at Peter Valentine’s folk art home need a $50,000 fix, crowdfunding friends say
There’s trouble at Moose and Grizzly Bear’s Ville – the colorful public art project that is the home of the equally colorful Peter Valentine a few blocks below Central Square: Tuesday’s cold snap burst a radiator pipe, flooding the home’s first and second floors.
Jannesari’s vibrant ‘Carpet Grew Like a Garden’ looks inside Iranian life; Coming to Gallery 263
For even more reason to look forward to 2021, the exhibit “The Carpet Grew Like a Garden” begins Jan. 14 at Gallery 263 in Cambridgeport, showing works by Iranian-born Shabnam Jannesari.
Choice of artists for Canal District Kendall work paints a subtle connection with Central Square
In a city of villages that can feel very distinct from each other, BioMed Realty made a choice in Kendall Square that offers a sense of connection: selecting Cedric Douglas and Julia Roth, artists also known as Vise and Julz, to paint a vent shaft in its Canal District Kendall.
City restarts search for 19th amendment artist; Winner says the first process lacked diversity
The city is reopening its search for an artist to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave U.S. women the right to vote, because there wasn’t enough diversity among the artists considered in the first, 23-month, search process.
There’s a $650,000 commission for public art open for bidding at Tobin/Vassal Lane campus (corrected)
If a commission of $15,000 seemed like a good get for an artist in the age of coronavirus, the City of Cambridge is offering $650,000 for public art at the future Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane Upper Schools complex.
Members show reopens Cambridgeport gallery, and coronavirus reshapes the rules for visiting
Gallery 263, closed since March because of the coronavirus, reopens Thursday with its Ninth Annual Members’ Exhibition.
Harvard Art Museums release makes it official: Its doors stay closed at least through December
The Harvard Art Museums will remain closed to the public until at least Dec. 31 in alignment with the university’s safety planning, according to a Wednesday press release, and continues to point people to its online offerings.
Storefront art project places stunning McLeods at Gallery 263, an appropriate window for a visit
Since it’s hard to go see art in a gallery, go see it at a gallery. In the window of Gallery 263 in Cambridgeport (which aims for a Sept. 17 reopening) are two works by Marla McLeod – stunning portraits of black women done in oil on canvas that must be seen in person to be appreciated.
Artists called: Compete for $15,000 commission painting vent in BioMed’s Canal District Kendall
Here’s a bright spot in a worrisome time for artists in Cambridge: a $15,000 commission to paint a mural on a parking garage vent shaft in Canal District Kendall.
MIT Museum is closed through December; Other Cambridge galleries are slower to say
There’s no recent word on reopenings from Harvard’s various museums of science and art, but the MIT Museum put a stake in the ground Friday: It’s closed until at least 2021.
