Arts & Culture

Two large-scale, immersive installations by Chiharu Shiota anchor the 2025 season at the ICA Watershed in East Boston. The artist collaborated with local residents to probe themes of migration, memory, survival and home.

The Ashmont-Adams neighborhood will come alive this weekend as more than 60 musicians and performers gather on porches, driveways and lawns for Dorchfest 2025. The all-day festival brings five hours of live music and activities to the neighborhood to enjoy for free.

Every year, Gospel Night ends the Boston Pops’ city season with soul-soaring melodies and the powerful rhythms of the Boston Pops Gospel Choir. This year, the orchestra performs with married duo Grammy winner Tamela Mann and award-winning actor and comedian David Mann.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum is opening two exhibitions celebrating the 50th anniversary of Cape Verde’s independence from Portugal in collaboration with the vibrant Cape Verdean community on the South Coast of New England.

There’s a new chef dicing onions and sorting spices at the Boston Public Library Nutrition Lab in Nubian Square.

For the first time, Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) has teamed up with Brooklyn-based collective ChamberQUEER to highlight queer history through a dynamic program of historic and contemporary Baroque music.

In a small wooden cube of a room — a gatehouse, painted blue  — American artist Minnie Evans (1892-1987) found a studio in which, while earning 16 cents an hour from morning to dusk over her 27-year post as gatekeeper of the Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, North Carolina, she turned out thousands of visionary images.

Dedicated to photography, BRIDGE Gallery, just north of Porter Square in Cambridge, is a small storefront venue with outsize reach.

Boston’s public art scene has grown substantially in the past decade. Bostonians can see rotating installations from local and global artists on the Rose Kennedy Greenway and enjoy murals from beloved street artists like Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs and Victor “Marka27” Quiñonez.

Over the past two-and-a-half months Bostonians have noticed projections popping up guerrilla-style on some of Boston’s most historic structures, including Old North Church, the Old State House and Boston Harbor.

Roxbury native artist Ja’Hari Ortega was less than a year old when she got her first pair of hoop earrings and just a little older when she became fascinated with her mother’s earful of beautiful gold hoops.

Celebrity Series of Boston and GrubStreet celebrated the launch of their new app, ArtsCard Boston, on April 23.