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Brownstones along Euston Street in Brookline. The City of Boston released its Anti-Displacement Action Plan Thursday, aiming to stabilize residents and both commercial and creative enterprises. ANH HUYNH/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

City of Boston unveils Anti-Displacement Plan to protect residents, businesses, cultural institutions

Liam Dunne March 21, 2025
The City of Boston released its Anti-Displacement Action Plan Thursday, aiming to stabilize residents and both commercial and creative enterprises.
People dance at a Pride month celebration hosted by Boston Pride For The People in June 2023. As Boston residents prepare for the city’s Pride month events, they also acknowledge the performative allyship of companies and organizations. TAYLOR COESTER/DFP FILE

Boston celebrates Pride month while weary of corporate support

Charlie Johnson June 14, 2024
As Boston recognizes Pride month in June, there is a cautious eye on how companies and organizations display support for the celebrations.
Faces of Roxbury Poetry Festival Headliners

Registration for first Roxbury Poetry Festival opens

Taylor Brokesh April 23, 2021
The free event will take place virtually, with some in person components, June 5.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King

MLK, Coretta Scott King memorial planned for Boston Common

Olga Benacerraf March 25, 2021
Installation of the abstracted bronze figure is expected to take place in October of 2022.
mural in west campus at boston university

Boston Cultural Council approves 2021 grants for artists, organizations

Tanisha Bhat February 24, 2021
This year’s funding is composed of around $489,000 in grants from the council’s annual budget, leaving just under $7,000 available for later use. Applicants included local writing contest Boston in 100 Words, City Ballet of Boston and Chinatown’s Pao Arts Center.
The City will donate $150,000 to create public art commemorating the slave trade near Faneuil Hall, one of 10 projects chosen to receive financial backing from the Edward Ingersoll Browne Trust Fund. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

City grants funds for public art projects

Natalie Patrick April 3, 2019
More than $800,000 in grants have been awarded to 10 public arts and culture projects across the city, including a memorial for the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and art near Faneuil Hall to commemorate Africans and African Americans sold into slavery in the city.
Five proposals for the Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King memorial to be permanently installed in the Boston Common will be on display at the Boston Public Library for comment from the public. PHOTO BY CHLOE GRINBERG/ DPF FILE PHOTO

Bostonians invited to weigh in on King memorial

Audrey Martin September 20, 2018

Boston residents are being given the chance to provide input on which of the five selected Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King memorials they want to see permanently installed in the Boston...

More than $470,000 given in grants to 181 arts initiatives

Qinyuan Xie February 6, 2018

More than $470,000 in grants this year will be given to Boston arts initiatives thanks to Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and the Boston and Massachusetts cultural councils....

BU alumni and faculty among winners of Boston’s first Artist Fellowship Awards

Kiran Galani February 5, 2018

Two Boston University alumni and a current BU professor were three out of the five $10,000 grants for the city’s inaugural Artist Fellowship Awards, awarded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture...

Robert ‘Problak’ Gibbs’ mural “Afro Futurism/ Breathe Life” is selected as one of the City of Boston’s public art projects in the Grove Hall Business District. PHOTO COURTESY CHRIS GAINES/ CITY OF BOSTON

Artists are chosen for Dorchester’s public art, safety initiative

Jordan Kimmel November 28, 2017

Mayor Martin Walsh announced Wednesday the selection of five artists for a series of public art projects. The projects are meant to provide a comfortable and secure environment for city residents as...

“A Summer Proposal: Boston City Hall," which is on exhibit until Aug. 18, features eight artists from the Greater Boston area. PHOTO BY MADDIE MALHOTRA/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Local artists re-energize City Hall through visual art

Josee Matela August 13, 2017

Boston’s City Hall is attracting more crowds this summer, but it’s not for the standard parking tickets and marriage licenses. Continuing an ongoing effort with the Mayor’s Office of Arts...

In October, the Boston Ballet performs “Le Corsaire”. Boston Mayor Martin Walsh recently announced that 173 art organizations, including the Boston Ballet, will receive grants from the Boston Cultural Council to help arts flourish in the community. DFP FILE PHOTO SARAH SILBIGER/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Boston Cultural Council awards grant money to local art, cultural organizations

Breanne Kovatch February 16, 2017

The Boston Cultural Council awarded more than $450,000 to 173 local organizations and projects this year, according to a press release issued Friday by Boston Mayor Martin Walsh. The BCC, a council...

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