Boston Things Delicate and Fierce: Xuan Hui Ng at the Griffin Museum of Photography Transcendence: Awakening the Soul Griffin Museum of Photography 67 Shore Rd. Winchester, Mass. Through Jan. 7, 2024 It’s often said that photography is one of the hardest art forms Sasha Patkin 2 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Boston Post-“Normal” World Glimpsed The Myth of Normal: A Celebration of Authentic Expression MassArt Art Museum 621 Huntington Ave. Through May 19, 2024 Sitting in the middle of a gallery at MassArt Art Museum Sasha Patkin 21 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Nativity Scene: Elves Torn To Shreds Somerville Illuminations Somerville, Mass. Through early January 2024 How many different ways can you decorate your yard for the holidays? You might opt for the classy, minimal look with classic Sasha Patkin 18 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Boston When “Awful” Rhymes With “Felafel” The Band’s Visit The Huntington Theatre 264 Huntington Ave. Boston, Mass. Through Dec. 17, 2023 “Once, not long ago, a group of musicians came to Israel from Egypt. You Sasha Patkin 8 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Boston T Retch T: An MBTA Musical The Rockwell 255 Elm St. Somerville, Mass. Dec. 1, 2023 Loving to hate the absurd incompetence of the T is a time-honored Boston tradition as old Sasha Patkin 6 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Motherhood Undone: Jennifer McClure at Leica Gallery Boston How Easily We Are Undone Jennifer McClure’s photography Leica Gallery Boston Through Jan. 28, 2024 “I never expected to be a mother,” Jennifer McClure writes in her artist statement. Sasha Patkin 22 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Boston A “Death March” Literary Battle At The Brattle Literary Death Match, The Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St. Cambridge, Mass. When I think of a literary reading, I think of cardigan sweaters, stuffy rooms, and restrained academic earnestness. When Sasha Patkin 20 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Boston “The White Children Who Tormented Me Eat Kimchi Now”: Lunchbox “Moments” Pack a Punch Lunchbox Moments: Seek Understanding. Share Stories. Stop Hate Pao Arts Center 99 Albany St., Boston Through Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024 When did you realize that you were different? For most Sasha Patkin 13 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Floral Art Blooms in the Pru Voyage The Prudential Center 800 Boylston St Boston, Mass. Even as the weather outside hurtles ever forward toward the wrong side of fall, the inside of the Prudential Center was Sasha Patkin 7 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Lizzie Borden’s Story Set To Music — & Mined For New Meaning Lizzie, The Musical Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow St. Concord, Mass. Through Nov. 5, 2023 Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what Sasha Patkin 25 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Boston This Art Is Bad. That’s A Compliment, Kinda Museum of Bad Art 1250 Massachusetts Ave. Boston, Mass. 02125 I was gazing upon a Michelangelo. Except, it wasn’t a Michelangelo. It was an artist’s painstakingly recreated version Sasha Patkin 17 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Boston HONK!ers Make The Right Kind Of Noise HONK! Musical street fest Somerville, Massachusetts Oct. 7 – 8, 2023 A ring had formed in Davis Square. In its center, a woman sang into a bullhorn while a row of Sasha Patkin 10 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Boston Buildings Are People Too Developing Boston: Berenice Abbott & Irene Shwachman Photograph a Changing CityThe Boston Athenaeum 10 – 1/2 Beacon St. Boston, MA 02108 Cities tell stories. This is particularly evident (if not Sasha Patkin 6 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Menopausal “Sküll” Girls Smash Porchfest Brookline Porchfest Brookline, Mass. Sept. 30, 2023 “Everyone hydrating?” Grace Buchanan, the lead singer of Girl Sküll, called out to the small crowd which had gathered outside on the quiet, Sasha Patkin 2 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Boston The Latinx Question Explored in an exhibit that looks below the surface of identity politrix. Latinx Identities: Struggles, Perspectives, and Critiques Unbound Visual Arts Exhibit Gallery 43 North Beacon St., Allston, Mass. Through Sasha Patkin 27 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Little Amal’s Hopeful First Big Steps Change The Picture 12-foot-tall puppet of 10-year-old refugee girl begins 6,000-mile coast-to-coast journey Why do people throw their energy into art when there are so many real and terrible things happening in Sasha Patkin 11 Sep 2023 · 6 min read
Boston Amid Verse-Tossing, The Cutest Date Night Of All Time Poetry Open Mic Night Trident Booksellers & Cafe 338 Newbury St, Boston Sept. 3, 2023 “And next up, Tony!” called the host of Trident Booksellers’s Poetry Open Mic Night. Sasha Patkin 8 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Boston Sofar Sounds So Good at Boston HQ The last time I went to a concert it was too loud, tall people stood in front of me the whole time, and canned beers cost $15. While there’s Sasha Patkin 31 Aug 2023 · 6 min read
