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

Critical Reflections & Opinion

Valuing art over policy, and action over talk, at the Public Art Network (PAN) pre-conference

Having recently visited Chicago for the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network pre-conference N+T director Kate Gilbert calls on Greater Boston to create bold, temporary projects during the 2016 conference. 

It’s understandable how a public art freak from Boston can get cultural envy visiting Chicago. Rich in monumental, plaza-anchoring sculpture and steeped in a history of financial and political backing for the arts, Chicago gives us pause, asks us to look at our challenges, and ultimately calls us to be a bolder, unified Greater Boston.

Know your past to chart your future: three successful projects in Boston’s history

As we at Now and There prepare for our first project, we’ve been looking back over some of the more successful temporary public art projects in Boston’s history. After all, you need to know your history before you can chart a new course. For this guest blog post we asked Sarah Hutt, former Director of Director of Public Art in the Office of Cultural Affairs under Mayor Tomas Menino, to choose her top three favorite projects. In the essay below Hutt focuses on the years 2001–2002 around the time of the Office’s Boston Cultural Agenda Fund that funded over 100 projects in Boston.