Cate McQuaid

5 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

What does a musician do after grad school? After violinist Alyssa Wang and clarinetist Nicholas Brown finished at New England Conservatory in 2019, they co-founded an orchestra. “We said we need a conductor. We need someone to run the strategy, finances, the back-end administrative stuff,” said Brown. “That’s how it all was born.” Their brainchild, the Boston Festival Orchestra, which celebrates its fifth season this summer. Brown, 32, is BFO’s executive director and principal clarinetist.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

GLOUCESTER–In his 50 years at C.B. Fisk Inc., Charles Nazarian has designed close to 100 pipe organs. The latest is Opus 166, an organ with about 3,000 pipes for the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables, Fla. Nazarian is responsible for the instrument’s aesthetic and shaping it to the church’s needs and architecture. The Church of the Little Flower’s priest asked Nazarian to incorporate five stained glass windows into his design. “That was the driving force,” the designer said.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

Most of woodworker Alison Croney Moses’s sculptures are fairly small. She coaxes thin veneers into delicate, undulant shapes that open, scoop, and hold. Crafting a piece for the sprawling, ambitious Boston Public Art Triennial meant going much bigger. “This Moment for Joy,” opening at the Triennial’s Lot Lab in Charlestown on May 22, is large enough to take a walk in. “This thing is ginormous,” Croney Moses said this week.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

Helena Wurzel’s paintings and collages depict her two children, her husband, her parents, and their ordinary lives. In “Home Workout,” her son Max and daughter Maya (9 and 7) climb Wurzel like a jungle gym as she exercises. Her art is “about being a woman in contemporary society and navigating all the stuff,” she said, “the mental load, the parenting, working.” Wurzel paints during school hours. “I’m always on the clock,” she said.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

Somerville,MA - 4/23/2025: Artist Lucy Kim poses for a portrait with a sculptural painting at her studio in Somerville, MA on April 23, 2025. (Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff) Craig F. Walker/Globe StaffIf Lucy Kim‘s sculptural paintings have a message, it’s don’t believe what you see. They fool the eye, scramble assumptions.