in front of old south church.
This lovely installation, part fish weir and part holiday decoration, was installed by members of Old South Church on Boylston Street. Old South Church is a beautiful old building with a very new vibe...
View Articlepublic art wednesday: the cambridge street project
Yesterday I stopped by the Cambridge Arts Council gallery at City Hall Annex to check out the Cambridge Street Project exhibition. The exhibition displays proposals of local artists for a temporary...
View Articlea FIGMENT full of imagination.
Last month, Cambridge held its annual RiverFest, a celebration of the arts, diversity, and, well, all things Cambridge. But this year the festival had some help from an awesome organization in New...
View Articleevery city should have a city museum (guest post)
< this post is by my good friend Alex Reisman, whom I asked to share her thoughts about st. louis with us. enjoy her incredible photos and this first of several entries! > Diana has invited me...
View Articleplacemaking at harvard.
I just read about a new plan to integrate performance and happenings into the Harvard Common Spaces Initiative. Cool! And then I realized I’ve never posted pictures of the Harvard Square Chairs. Not...
View Articlehello, seattle.
I spent last weekend in Seattle, a city I always think I’d love to live in if I didn’t love Cambridge so much. It’s so rugged, so ethereally beautiful, so laid-back…and yet, so caffeinated, at the...
View ArticleExperiments in pop-up democracy
You’re probably wondering what I’m up to these days, since it’s certainly not writing on this blog. Well, a lot actually! I’m working on a lot of projects for school that build on the topics I write...
View Articledrawing in public.
The Cambridge Arts Council did a fabulous exhibition at their gallery this past month. It suggests an interesting alternate understanding of the term “public art,” and was very good looking to boot....
View ArticleNeighborhood Explorers
A family reads at the Uni on opening day. The women are discussing their memories about how this space was an elevated highway in their childhood. For the past month or two I’ve been working on...
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