Malcolm Gay

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Malcolm Gay

Gary Dunning, who for nearly 15 years has been president and executive director at the venerable presenting organization Celebrity Series of Boston, announced Thursday that he is stepping down. Dunning, who over the course of his tenure has expanded the organization’s artistic offerings and financial profile, will retire in June 2026, when the 2025/2026 season concludes. The group’s board of directors will launch a national search for Dunning’s replacement this summer.

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Malcolm Gay

Regie Gibson, a spoken word poet whose work often addresses social and historical themes with humor and hope, has been selected to serve as Massachusetts’s Inaugural Poet Laureate, Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll announced Friday at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. The announcement, which follows a months-long search that included more than 100 applicants, coincided with the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, which will bring together more than 150 poets over the weekend. Gov.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Malcolm Gay

Schorer had flown from Brussels the day before with the painting he now carried in his hands, a winter scene by the acclaimed Dutch Golden Age artist Hendrick Avercamp. The artwork was stolen nearly half a century earlier in a sensational 1978 heist from the baronial estate of Helen and Robert Stoddard, a Worcester industrialist. The Avercamp picture, along with numerous other paintings and other valuables taken from the home that night, had not been seen since. Local officials were stumped.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Malcolm Gay

The National Endowment for the Arts has terminated a grant supporting the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, museum director Kristy Edmunds said Tuesday. “As painful as this is financially, what is more so is the diminishment of our revered national agencies and their staff after decades of service in elevating our national creativity, innovation and cultural contributions,” Edmunds wrote in an email to supporters.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Malcolm Gay

The National Endowment for the Arts began notifying arts groups in Boston and beyond that the agency was rescinding grants and grant offers, a development many in the cultural sector have been bracing for as the Trump administration seeks greater influence in the cultural sphere. The emails, which began arriving just hours after President Donald J.