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(Clockwise from top left: “Boston Strong,” wall tower of 110 running shoes memorial assemblage; John Buron, “Eugene Roberts,” mixed media fabric/wall quilt banner; Jeff Grassie, “Invincible,” mixed media, wood, sculpture; Christopher DeRosa, “1897,” wood assemblage with electric lamp (photographs by J. Fatima Martins).

THEMATIC DUETS IN A LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP: THE 26.2 MILE JOURNEY AT ATTLEBORO ARTS MUSEUM

// Featured, Visual Arts

By J. Fatima Martins Attleboro, MA - “A Long-Distance Relationship: The 26.2 Mile Journey” is a hybrid art invitational created to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings and celebrate the social importance of sport running as a unifying community activity. It also reveals human athleticism as a source of personal triumph with greater cultural relevance especially as it relates to gender and ability, and spotlights some ‘firsts’ within the sport, including Eugene Roberts who became the first unofficial wheelchair athlete to complete the Boston Marathon in 1970, crossing the finish line in a hospital-issued wheelchair; and, Robert Louise “Bobbi” Gibb, the first unregistered woman to run the entire Boston Marathon in 1966, as well as Sara Mae Berman, the unofficial women’s winner in the years 1969 through 1971. Women were banned from officially competing in the … [Read more...] about THEMATIC DUETS IN A LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP: THE 26.2 MILE JOURNEY AT ATTLEBORO ARTS MUSEUM

Hiro, Maria Beadeux, New York.

HIRO: PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

// Visual Arts

By Rhiannon Leigh Boston, Mass. - Staying warm this winter by stopping by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to see their newly acquired Frida Kahlo piece? Don’t forget to continue to the photography gallery to see an exhibition featuring works by Manhattan-based photographer Hiro. Born to Japanese parents in 1930 in Shanghai, Hiro spent the beginning of his life in China until eventually relocating to Japan at the end of World War II. Hiro had begun looking at American fashion magazines and noticed photographers Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, becoming inspired by their work and completely enveloped in photography. After moving to New York in 1956 and working under Avedon, it was clear that he had a natural talent for the art. Hiro used this niche as a way to express what he had seen growing up in a war-torn area, bringing “his fear, his isolation, his splendid light, to film” … [Read more...] about HIRO: PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON