Expanded bestiary in City Nature Arts Challenge just adds to value as weekend project for the kids
The kinds of plants, animals and fungi young artists can use as subjects for the Cambridge City Nature Arts Challenge has more than tripled in the year since the competition’s launch, from the Canada geese of East Cambridge and Harvard Square to the winter fireflies spotted at Fresh Pond.
Thaxton’s ‘Beauty of Everyday Living’ mural brightens Harvard Square kiosk construction
A design honoring Black Harvard students, peppered with Harvard Square Easter eggs and weaving in nods to Cambridge community festivals and Black Lives Matter protests covers a construction project in a city commission from artist Patricia Thaxton.
Works by Lesley students placed at businesses through June 5 in Storefront Initiative Art Walk
Lesley University is celebrating its College of Art and Design students with an art walk in the city’s Porter Square neighborhood, with businesses displaying work, created for students’ senior bachelor of fine arts thesis projects.
The Lucky Jungle arts space puts down roots, feeling like creative free-for-alls of our past
A new arts space in The Port feels like a reinvention of the freewheeling Out of the Blue and Zeitgeist galleries of Cambridge’s past.
Candidates for Tobin and Vassal project public art will take public’s questions and ideas Wednesday
The four finalists for public art planned for the new Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane Upper Schools complex will take questions and comments, thoughts and ideas at a 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday virtual meeting.
John Lewis mural, cleaned of vandalism from fall, now brightens Food For Free distribution center
There’s a new home for a restaurant-commissioned mural of John Lewis that was found vandalized in the fall.
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.
