For a fun family day of art and political activism, join the Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station (FRRACS), the Braintree Art Association and other environmentally conscious South Shore residents and artists on Sunday, June 23 for their Painting in the Park event at King’s Cove Park in Weymouth, Massachusetts. The event’s purpose is to raise awareness of the environmental and public safety concerns surrounding the proposed frack-gas compressor station planned to be constructed next to the Fore River Bridge. Frack-gas compressor stations are typically constructed in less-populated rural areas due to the high risks associated with these structures. The purpose of a compressor station is to increase the pressure in the pipes to increase the speed of the natural gas in order for it to be able to travel further distances. The goal for this specific compressor station … [Read more...] about Art Against the Weymouth Compressor Station
Charlie Baker
Gallery 1832 at LabCentral’s Grand Opening
By James Foritano CAMBRIDGE, Ma -- Charlie Baker, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ very tall governor, is standing at a podium in the lobby of LabCentral, deep in the heart of the Kendall Square Innovation District and giving his bipartisan blessing to LabCentral's new 42,000 square foot expansion in Cambridge, Mass. I'm here as an emissary of Artscope because this expansion is about more than feet and inches, more than new shared lab space for worthy startups. It's also about art, and in this instance, specifically "Gallery 1832," which stretches from one end to the other of a long white corridor just upstairs from this ceremonious lobby. "Wait a minute!" you might think, laboratories fitted out with the latest equipment to enable the inspiration of scientific, of entrepreneurial minds while art is banished to a corridor! Perhaps I misspoke. Let's say instead a busy "lane" … [Read more...] about Gallery 1832 at LabCentral’s Grand Opening