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?
Artist Voices
Now + There
Nick Cave is one of T Magazine's 2019 Greats

Augment creator, artist Nick Cave is dubbed “The Most Joyful, and Critical, Artist in America” by T Magazine for their annual The Greats issue, out now.

Nick Cave is one of T Magazine's 2019 Greats
N+T Projects
Leah Triplett Harrington
Process and Procession: The JOY Parade as Art ...

Associate Curator Leah Triplett Harrington offers a reflection on The JOY Parade, part of Nick Caves’s Augment, and dives into the history of parades as both contemporary art expressions and nexus points for hyper-local happiness and jubilation.

Process and Procession: The JOY Parade as Art and Intervention
Community Engagement, N+T Projects
Lori Lobenstine
Partnership in Action: DS4SI and Augment

Lori Lobenstine, Program Design Lead with DS4SI joins us on the blog to talk about the impact of public making and how projects like Augment support social intervention and collective agency.

Partnership in Action: DS4SI and Augment
News & Updates
Jameson Johnson
Building the Ecosystem: Community Partnership ...

Jameson Johnson, founder of the Boston Art Review talks about how collaborating with N+T for their upcoming Public Art Issue is supporting a more sustainable art ecosystem and introduces six writers who were paid for their work through partnership with Now + There.

Building the Ecosystem: Community Partnership in Arts Publishing

Boston

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.

Public Art is About Learning in Public

Public Art is About Learning in Public

Making public art has its own unique qualities. The creative process is vulnerable as people can comment and judge before the work is finished. And yet, its very openness at this delicate stage is, in turn, more dynamic in that it constantly sparks interactions with local inhabitants. 

Four months after the inaugural celebration of the mural See Her, artist Ann Lewis and Kate Gilbert, to debrief with Martina Tanga about the successes and stumbling blocks of the project.