On the face of it

The term “facial recognition” has a new modern connotation around privacy and technology—issues we would never have imagined in our long-lost analog world.

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Aug 29, 2019

Test. Learn. Adjust.

In the realm of retail, the term pop-up brings to mind short-term stores.

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Aug 29, 2019

Everett's
wild ride

From exclusive bus lanes to bike share stations, from new waterfront parks to digital wayfinding signs, Everett is changing faster than Boston’s Seaport, and not just around its infamous casino.

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Aug 22, 2019

Can Boston be a public art city?

Despite its moniker, Boston is not the hub of the universe.

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Aug 15, 2019

And the cameo
goes to...

Architecture in motion pictures has a long history, going back to cinema’s origin—think of the Lumière brothers’ Demolition of a Wall (1896) or Buster Keaton’s The Electric House (1922).

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Aug 08, 2019

Immersion therapy

During summer’s less frenetic pace, thoughts turn to travel.

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Aug 01, 2019

Trip the flight fantastic

Happy birthday, Apollo.

How poignant to spend the 50th anniversary of the moon landing immersed in a collective experience, hundreds of heads turned together toward a futuristic, shiny aircraft, watching and listening in shared wonder, sweltering in the still air of a heat wave.

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Jul 25, 2019

Operatic maneuvers

When Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, she couldn’t possibly have imagined it as an opera staged in a gym.

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Jul 25, 2019

Threading
the needle

Project Runway was one of the first TV shows I watched when I came to the United States in 2006.

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Jul 18, 2019

Put the phone down. Print
out a poem.

Space—public, private, personal, social—defines our relationship to one another in the city.

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Jul 18, 2019

True colors

There is nothing more majestic than watching a New England winter melt into a vibrant spring landscape.

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Jul 11, 2019

Illustrating
the point

A 1960s television, fancy yet stodgy in its boxy wooden console, sits in the middle of Woodstock to the Moon: 1969 Illustrated at the Norman Rockwell Museum.

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Jul 11, 2019

As if by magic

The summer is a wizard.

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Jul 04, 2019

Identity politics

In a year when Jeff Koons’ Rabbit, a stainless-steel sculpture of an inflatable bunny, fetched the highest price at auction ($91 million) for a work by a living artist, Pop Art seems to be fulfilling a manifest destiny of sorts in the domination of the art market.

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Jul 04, 2019