East Boston Artists at 80 Border Street

11/14/2025

11/14/2025

Color Flows on Winter Street!

Join us for a block party this Saturday, November 15, from 3 - 9 p.m., to celebrate the art, culture, and community that transformed Winter Street for the past six weeks!
boston.gov/calendar/color-flows-closing-block-party

11/14/2025

Native American Heritage Month is celebrated in November to honor the history and culture of our country's Indigenous peoples. The observance was established in 1990 and focuses on celebrating the traditions, languages, and achievements of Native Americans while also acknowledging historical and ongoing challenges, such as the impact of federal policies.

While Indigenous Peoples' Day, observed on the second Monday of October, broadens recognition of all Indigenous peoples globally and challenges colonialism, Native American Heritage Month is a federally recognized month-long observance with a specific day, Native American Heritage Day, designated the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Learn more about our U.S Tribes at www.bia.gov/NNAHM, to honor, uplift, and support the original peoples of the Americas.

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El Mes de la Herencia Nativa Americana se celebra en noviembre para honrar la historia y la cultura de los pueblos indígenas de nuestro país. Esta conmemoración se estableció en 1990 y se centra en celebrar las tradiciones, las lenguas y los logros de los nativos americanos, al tiempo que reconoce los desafíos históricos y actuales, como el impacto de las políticas federales.

Si bien el Día de los Pueblos Indígenas, que se celebra el segundo lunes de octubre, amplía el reconocimiento de todos los pueblos indígenas a nivel mundial y cuestiona el colonialismo, el Mes de la Herencia Nativa Americana es una conmemoración federal de un mes de duración con un día específico, el Día de la Herencia Nativa Americana, que se designa el viernes después del Día de Acción de Gracias.

Para obtener más información sobre las Tribus de los Estados Unidos, visite www.bia.gov/NNAHM y únase a nosotros para honrar, enaltecer y apoyar a los pueblos originarios de las Américas.
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ALT TEXT: Colorful Native American beadwork with geometric patterns and tribal symbols on fabric. Text in yellow overlay reads "Native American Heritage Month."

11/14/2025

Beyond serving some of the best Thai food in town, this lively Brookline restaurant is known for its hospitality (and—bonus secret—a super-cool black-light-responsive bathroom mural). “We are really welcoming to our guests,” says co-owner Chompon “Boong” Boonnak, “so our secret is that if you’re celebrating anything with us, we like to bring [you] shots. Find more secrets at the link. https://bit.ly/3LAYe8X

Courtesy photo

11/14/2025

A night of projection, poetry, and music! 🎶📽️

Join to celebrate historical Boston heroes and unsung heroes via larger-than-life projections.

AFH teen artists have created a series of portraits using contemporary painting, graphics, collage, and animation techniques to create visually striking images highlighting inspirational leaders, trailblazers and innovators such as Mel King, Isabella Stewart Gardner (), and Elma Lewis.

📆 Thursday, November 13
🕔 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
📍 City Hall Plaza’s Civic Pavilion (5 Congress Street, across from the Boston Public Market)

Watch these portraits come to life as they are mapped and projected onto the Civic Pavilion.

🔗 RSVP at the link in our bio.

This event is funded by the City Hall Plaza Engagement Grant ✨

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10/27/2025

Boston University’s Dream, a reimagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, uses Random Actor, a BU-developed generative AI and motion capture software, to project interactive visuals onto the stage and performers. The multidisciplinary production brings together the Schools of Theatre, Visual Arts, and Music for a truly modern take on Shakespeare’s classic.

More here ➡️ http://spr.ly/6183AhdhJ

10/27/2025

When the N***s came to power, a writer began collecting people’s dreams and uncovered the effects the regime had on the collective unconscious. https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/how-dreams-change-under-authoritarianism?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com%2Fnewyorkermag%2Flibrary%2Fmedia%2F593157555

10/27/2025

The city of Boston’s first-ever Content Creator Summit feels more like a reunion than a municipal initiative. Around long tables, creators swap tips, show one another what’s working on their screens, and angle for better light. The atmosphere is equal parts networking event and dinner party.

For City Hall, this isn’t just a photo op. It’s the beginning of a deliberate strategy to fold creators into Boston’s narrative—and also court them as amplifiers of the mayor’s messaging. A couple of months later, the same group will get an invite to the seasonal launch of Boston’s late-night food trucks. A few weeks after that, the city includes them to help publicize “New Edition Day” in Roxbury. Cynics might see this as the city bypassing traditional TV, radio, and print outlets, but City Hall insists it’s about widening the tent, not shutting anyone out. Keep reading at the link. https://bit.ly/4nj5Wlj

📸: Isabel Leon of the Mayor’s Office

10/26/2025

10/26/2025

“The master collector and [co-founder of the] Neue Galerie, Ronald S. Lauder, has said that he categorizes art into the separate categories of “My,” “Oh My” and “OH MY GOD,” reflecting his increasing determination that his collections, which, at last count, number 17, will be “the best of the best.” It is his connoisseurship and the museum’s over-arching philosophy that makes visiting the Neue Galerie such a satisfying experience.”
– Kristin Nord, Antiques and the Arts Weekly

NOW ON VIEW
“German Masterworks from the Neue Galerie”

Plan your visit at
neuegalerie.org/germanmasterworks

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Installation view of “German Masterworks from the Neue Galerie.” Photography by Annie Schlechter

10/26/2025

If you are looking for inspiration, we suggest looking through the oeuvre of German painter Otto Dix (1891-1969). His paintings were among the most graphic visual representatives of the Weimar Republic, exposing with unsparing and wicked wit the instability and contradictions of the time.

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Otto Dix, “Portrait of the Journalist Sylvia Von Harden,” 1927. Musuem of Modern Art at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

10/26/2025

As a young artist in 1970s New York, Judy Pfaff thought painters were boring. Her explosive installations are anything but.