Community Engagement
Mary-Liz Murray
N+T Asks: How can art offer hope to artists and ...

On April 24, 2020, we hosted our fourth N+T Asks conversation. This week Assistant Curator Leah Triplett Harrington asked you and our guests Stephanie Cardon and Charla Jones, "How does art offer hope to artists and the public?" Click to watch or listen to the full conversation.

N+T Asks: How can art offer hope to artists and the public?
Critical Reflections & Opinion
Leah Triplett Harrington
Virtual Studio Visit | Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi

We’re working from home too, which means curating from the kitchen table. Click to read about our first virtual studio visit with interdisciplinary artist Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi whose work blending media to “analyze” absence, distortion, and distance is particularly poignant during this time. Click to read more about Zsuzi and her perspective on “possibility”

Virtual Studio Visit | Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi
Community Engagement
Mary-Liz Murray
N+T Asks: What can artists do right now?

On April 17, 2020, we welcomed artist and curator Rachel Allen, social change designer and founder of DS4SI, Kenny Bailey, and over 80 of you into a conversation exploring the question: “What can artists do right now?”

N+T Asks: What can artists do right now?
Community Engagement
Mary-Liz Murray
N+T Asks: What does "care" mean right now?

We were glad to have special guests artist Stephen Hamilton (2018 Public Art Accelerator and creator of The Founders Project) and Tiffany Cogell, a driven advocate and community organizer (and one of the powerful women featured in Elisa Hamilton’s 2017 project Slideshow) join us for our second installment of N+T Asks and help us answer: “What does care mean right now?”

N+T Asks: What does "care" mean right now?
Community Engagement
Mary-Liz Murray
N+T Asks: What does "public" mean right now?

On April 3, 2020, we launched our new online conversation series "N+T Asks." We were excited to welcome artist Silvia Lopez Chavez, Program Director of Public Art at New England Foundation for the Arts, Kim Szeto, and more than 75 participants from across the cultural sector as we asked: “What does public mean right now?”

N+T Asks: What does "public" mean right now?

Boston

The ARTery: At MassArt Art Museum, Artists Examine Racial And Gender Systems

The ARTery: At MassArt Art Museum, Artists Examine Racial And Gender Systems

Our Assistant Curator, Leah Triplett Harrington, reviews the recently opened MassArt Art Museum’s (MAAM) inaugural shows, including “Valkyrie Mumbet,” “Game Changers” and “Yesterday is Here.”

Commonwealth Avenue Mall, "Open House," and the History of Democratic Public Space

Commonwealth Avenue Mall, "Open House," and the History of Democratic Public Space

The Commonwealth Ave Mall was among Boston’s first planned public spaces. But when construction on the Mall began in 1856, it signaled the very beginning of an urban planning renaissance in the city that lasted through the Gilded Age (1870's - 1900). Now it’s the site of Liz Glynn: Open House, enriching it’s already potent message about access to public space.