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This year during Women’s History Month, I’ve thought a lot about women and anger. Throughout history and around the world, women have been socialized to doubt, fear and repress their anger, especially in periods of hyper masculinity or aggression. But in recent years women have shown incredible courage and creativity in honoring and channeling their anger and turning it into a catalyst for social justice.

Feb 9

Feb 9 As Good Excuse as Any

ART, LIFE

Valentines Day is as good an excuse as any to binge on love-inspired art. This year for Valentines Day, give yourself the gift of enjoying some passionate, obsessive, transporting, heady, gorgeous and sexy works of art that make you feel something or learn something or do something that may come close to love.

Jan 28

Jan 28 Working From Home? Don't Sweat It

LIFE, STYLE

With more and more companies announcing permanent work from home options for employees, what will this mean for American personal style? Will sweatpants bring the end of dignity or the beginning of acceptance and empathy?

Jan 7

Jan 7 The Universality of Sunlight: Eva Navarro's Paintings of Hope

The optimistic paintings of Madrid-based artist Eva Navarro portray a color packed landscape of common experience through resilience, solitude and sunlight.

Dec 7

Dec 7 Campo: Uruguay's Conscientious Art Institute

ART, SPIRIT

If you go, you may never want to leave. Welcome to Campo, the innovative Creative Arts Institute in tucked away Garzón, Uruguay. Founder Heidi Lender has built a haven for connection, quiet and creativity, drawing artists and art enthusiasts from all over the world. Campo’s Artfest takes place December 28, 29. it just might be the answer to how to exit 2020 and start all over again.

Nov 12

Nov 12 She's a Goddess

She’s speaking. Simone Leigh will be the first black woman ever to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2022. In collaboration with the ICA Boston who commissioned and will organize the show Leigh will bring her powerful unapologetic voice to issues of authorship, agency and understanding America through a black female lens.

Oct 3

Oct 3 The Visionary Series: Jay Calderin, Founder of Boston Fashion Week

STYLE, Visionary Series

Jay Calderin, second in our new Visionary Series, founded Boston Fashion Week 26 years ago to champion the local community of diverse, creative talent. This year, BFW will be entirely virtual, and will celebrate the next generation of fashion visionaries.

Sep 17

Sep 17 Game. Set. Mask.

STYLE

More than one of the world’s best tennis players, more than the world’s highest paid female athlete, Naomi Osaka is a force for social justice and a quiet style icon on the rise.

Aug 28

Aug 28 Rania Matar's Portraiture of Resiliency and Promise

The explosion in the port area of Beirut reduced much of photographer Rania Matar’s birthplace to rubble. True to her activist nature, she responded with a collaborative campaign, raising thousands for reconstruction and boosting awareness for crisis-fatigued Americans.

Aug 10

Aug 10 One thing you should never buy on Amazon

When it comes to buying books, stay true to your independent spirit.

Why you should always support local independent bookstores and never buy a book from Amazon again.

$Connection / Refraction: The Reassuringly Complex Photography of Sarah Dinnick$

Jul 10

Jul 10 Connection / Refraction: The Reassuringly Complex Photography of Sarah Dinnick

Sarah Dinnick’s mesmerizing photographs transport us from isolation to understanding, connection and empathy. With an intense respect for her remote subjects, she shows how intimately we are, through our experiences, connected.

Jun 26

Jun 26 Pictures in Pixels

Grace Kenney

Millennials have a native trust in technology, writes Grace Kenney, a recent college grad. Contemplating the meaning of her art history degree in light of new challenges to art institutions, hierarchies and traditions, she explores the role technology might play moving forward and the benefits that she believes will impact a wider, more diverse audience.

Jun 21

Jun 21 Tennis With a Dead Man

James Baldwin

Writer and avid tennis player Jim Baldwin shares a short story about a Father’s Day game he will never forget.

Jun 11

Jun 11 On One Knee

Sharee Galpert

POETRY

It was the hands in the pockets that did it… A new poem by Sheree Galpert.

Jun 3

Jun 3 The Visionaries Series: Bridgitt Evans of VIA Art Fund

ART, Visionary Series

The first in a new series on Visionaries, Bridgitt Evans of VIA Art Fund demonstrates what compassionate engagement and direct action look like in this fragile moment. “I know, right now, in every town in America, artists are putting their minds, hands, bodies and voices to work to communicate our fears, heartbreak and rage.”

Jun 2

Jun 2 Don't Complain

The collective fury compelling people of all races to take to the streets across America and even beyond to London, must continue to fuel direct action after the protests end. Here are some ideas to keep you informed, engaged and and active in the Commonwealth and beyond.

May 22

May 22 From Beans in Brazil to Bars in Boston: A Virtual Guided Chocolate Tasting

Anne Buckley

Anne Buckley takes us on a sensory journey across the globe from South America to the South Pacific via an expert-led virtual chocolate tasting. The ultimate tour guide, we discover, comes from humble pods that grow in the jungle and inherit the flavor of the land.

May 18

May 18 White Space, the New Time Out

As quarantine drags into month three, author and parenting expert Susan Callahan discusses her strategies for finding work-life balance and the philosophy of white space as a means toward finding clarity in chaos.

May 11

May 11 Happy Graduation?