Lantern Stories, a new public artwork by Boston-based artist Yu-Wen Wu, is now on display in Auntie Kay and Uncle Frank Chin Park on The Greenway. The installation, which celebrates Boston’s Chinatown community, came together after a year and half of community listening sessions, design, and fabrication. Wu created thirty lanterns to illuminate the history Read More…
Jupiter and Saturn aligned in a planetary conjunction on December 21, creating a very bright star that some have been referring to as the “Christmas Star.” Here Peter Galipault from Commercial Wharf captures the conjunction behind the Custom House Tower. According to NASA, it’s been nearly 400 years since the planets passed this close to each Read More…
A celebration of Italian and Italian American culture was on full display last weekend, as the IDEA Boston festival kicked off its inaugural annual event at the Dante Alighieri Cultural Center on Nov. 2-3. “It was a tremendous success,” said Nicola Orichuia, the festival’s director and president of I AM Books, the North End Boston-based Read More…
