Recent homes sales in Greater Boston (Aug. 12)

Latest Sales ABINGTON 416 Thayer St. #416 Condo/Apt, built in 2000, 1,334 square feet, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 baths. $437,000 ACTON 16 Chestnut St. #5 Condo. $1,190,000 5 Westside Drive. One-family Colonial, built in 2000, 1,926 square feet, 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, on 10,015-square-foot lot. $925,000 9 Franklin Place #9 Condo Town … Read more

Kate Lee and Clovis Lima Jr. On Launching 603 Arts Foundation

Kate Lee and Clovis Lima Jr. Photo Zenith Richards. The new generation of art collectors wants to go beyond the ownership of artwork to have a deeper impact on artists’ careers while feeling like they are part of a story and helping to foster a community built around creative exchange and shared passions. It’s an … Read more

How an Idea Becomes an Institution Built to Outlast Its Own Trends

Delphine de Canecaude. © Droits réservés Museum Studio CEO Delphine de Canecaude has, in her own words, one of the best jobs in the world. Since taking the helm of the Paris-based cultural engineering firm in early 2023, she has guided a team of 400 specialists through more than its share of ambitious projects in … Read more

Demetrio Paparoni Curates Cascais’ Bienal del Agua

The first edition of La Bienal del Agua, “The Traces of Water” in Cascais, Portugal, runs through September 6, 2026. Courtesy The inaugural Bienal del Agua recently opened in multiple venues in Cascais, a picturesque harbor town on the outskirts of Lisbon. The biennial’s main exhibition is on view at the Estoril Congress Center, with … Read more

‘The Best Comedy is Born from Pain’: Two Egyptian Directors’ Approach

  It only took one brilliant Panda (2010) commercial to get Egyptians laughing at the all-too-familiar experience of losing their cool. One short scene, one simple storyline, and one sharp insight were enough to capture a feeling so common that almost every Egyptian could relate to it: the feeling of completely losing it. Many years … Read more

No Men Allowed On Kristina Roth’s Exclusive SuperShe Island in Finland

SuperShe Island. Courtesy of SuperShe Island (Editor’s note: This article was originally published on September 7, 2018. SuperShe has since been sold to a private investor.) I’m slumped on a couch in a cabin with the windows blacked out by sheets, somewhere in the middle of the Baltic Sea. For three days, I’ve consumed nothing … Read more

Aspen Art Fair Is Turning the Mountain Escape Into an Arts Destination

Jacob Arthur. Zach Hilty/BFA.com Aspen succeeds each summer in attracting art lovers and collectors from across the country through a near-perfect synergy: a cooler, more relaxed mountain escape, a boutique, easy-to-navigate fair that grows more international with each edition and a smart, ambitious museum that has prioritized bringing leading artists to town through site-specific programming … Read more

Tran Luong Filters Vietnam’s Reality Through His Underwater World

Installation view: “Tran Luong, When sky merges with Earth” at Bortolami, New York, 2026. Image courtesy the artist and Bortolami, New York. Photography by Guang Xu There is something both unsettling and engaging in the menacing yet naive visual universe of Vietnamese artist Tran Luong. His hallucinatory stratifications of symbologies connect and collapse fluidly across … Read more

2 found dead along same stretch of Mass. river

Local news The two bodies were found less than a mile apart, but authorities have not said whether there is any connection between the two incidents. The Northwestern District Attorney’s Office said in a statement that authorities were investigating the matter after two bodies were recovered on the same stretch of river in Western Massachusetts. … Read more

How Costa Smeralda Preserved Its Exclusive, Protected Sardinian Coast

Cala di Volpe, the exclusive resort on the Costa Smeralda. White Box Studio Barcelona has it Taken to greet cruise passengers with water Pistols. Venice now charges a fee for day trippers At the door. Across the Mediterranean, success comes through congestion, and where it does not, it arrives through construction – hotels and beach … Read more