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April photos of the month 2026
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (207+ words) The Boston Globe The suburbs are more difficult. People tend to travel by car, and the streets of well-heeled communities can feel deserted. A walk on a nature trail could offer wildlife, or it could just be a walk in…...
In Portland, Ming Smith makes light cascade and darkness abide
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (300+ words) The show, which features work from the "70s and "80s, runs through June 7 at the Portland Museum of Art. None of the images are matted, and more than half are unframed. Many are very large " as big as 47 inches by 72 inches, or…...
A portrait of the artist in the Hebrides
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (778+ words) The Boston Globe A portrait of the artist in the Hebrides Douglas Stuart is back with his finest novel yet Send this article to your social connections. In a 2021 interview, after his debut, "Shuggie Bain," had won the coveted Booker…...
The Eric Carle Museum takes a look at an overlooked genre: Picture books with actual photographs
2+ week, 6+ day ago (178+ words) Sometimes, though, the pictures take the form of photographs, and that's the subject of "Click! Photographers Make Picture Books," which runs at the Eric Carle Museum Book Art through June 7. AMHERST " The pictures in children's picture books are usually drawn…...
Photos of the month: March 2026
4+ week, 17+ hour ago (11+ words) Photos of the month March 2026: Spring returns, MIAA championships'bostonglobe. com...
How did I know my work was special?
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (197+ words) Ke'ta asked in a 1997 interview. Everyone wanted me to do their portrait, and everyone would come back afterward and say, "Hey, Seydou, my personality really comes through in that picture you took." Viewers have no way of knowing if that…...
Photo gallery: Best of winter 2025-26 from Massachusetts high school students
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (70+ words) The Boston Globe With high school spring sports teams to start playing for real on Thursday, let's take advantage of this last opportunity to celebrate the season just past. Questions? Please send them along to John Vitti of the Globe…...
From quilts to wallpaper: Discovering the private world of Emily Dickinson
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (466+ words) In the sitting room where she often improvised "weird and beautiful melodies" on piano, the poet Emily Dickinson kept an Aeolian harp. Built for her by John Graves, a friend and distant cousin, the wooden box still sits on a…...
Six years after learning he's slowly going blind, Mark Erelli is seeing life in a new light
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (791+ words) In 2020, Mark Erelli learned he was slowly going blind. The singer-songwriter and longtime staple of the Greater Boston music scene was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, or RP, an inherited retinal disease that causes progressive loss of night and peripheral vision....
Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self at Gardner Museum
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (261+ words) At the Gardner, when person meets "Persona'The Boston Globe At the Gardner, when person meets "Persona" Two new shows, one about the museum"s namesake, examine identity Add an "a" to "person" and you get "persona." If only the relation…...