Weekend comics event becomes a Mini-MICE, free and masked for safety instead of avenging
After the all-virtual Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo demanded by 2020’s raging pandemic, the free event returns Saturday and Sunday in a new form defined by a more confusing Covid moment: as a Mini-MICE with room to breathe inside the open-air Starlight Square entertainment complex.
Harvard Art Museums plan to reopen on Sept. 4, adding Free Sundays with advance reservations
After closing mid-March of 2020 to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the Harvard Art Museums are expected to reopen to the public Sept. 4.
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.
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.
Arts projects will share $90,000 in funding, focused on Port neighborhood, Central Square
Ten arts projects are coming to Cambridge’s Port neighborhood with $90,000 in funding from Cambridge Arts and the City of Cambridge’s Port Neighborhood Grants.
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.
Out of the Blue art gallery is in Somerville armory after rent hikes ended its Cambridge stay in 2017
The Out of the Blue art gallery and performance space, a fixture around Cambridge for 21 years before being priced out in December 2017, says it has a new home in Somerville.
She’s chronicling a lengthy recovery from Covid; Honesty and making art is getting her through it
North Cambridge artist Freedom Baird has fought off Covid-19 for months, somehow persisting with her art and recounting in detail her medical issues from coronavirus.
