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Davis Square’s pop-up art gallery opens in October under the name The Diamond Factory

by Marc Levy September 22, 2026

There’s a name and opening date for the pop-up art gallery coming to Davis Square, filling a former Starbucks coffee shop space empty for the past year.

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A walking tour for Cambridge Open Studios

by Camila Kelly September 17, 2026

The Indie maps an itinerary (map included) through our favorite studios, galleries and homes that are opening their doors this weekend.

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Cambridge Arts draws attention to this weekend’s Open Studios, mapping the city’s visual creativity

by Marc Levy September 15, 2026

The peek inside artists’ spaces and processes known as Cambridge Open Studios is this weekend, and the city’s arts agency is doing its best to make sure people know.

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Davis Square’s former Starbucks space will host an art gallery

by Marc Levy September 14, 2026

A pop-up art gallery will fill the space of a Starbucks coffee shop that closed a year ago in Somerville’s Davis Square with the help of Susan Berstler of the Nave Gallery.

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Cambridge’s artsy People’s Sculpture Race looks for its team, but Lowell’s Kinetic Sculpture Race runs on

by Marc Levy September 8, 2026

Lowell's fun race, which takes place again Sept. 19, was once matched by a version in Cambridge born out of artists with close connections with MIT.

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Come swoon over the romance novel art of Elaine Gignilliat at Lovestruck

by Marc Levy August 18, 2026

The work of Elaine Gignilliat is as identifiable as works by Vermeer or Munch, just not with the same cultural cache – she painted the covers of more than 350 romance novels.

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‘Your Light Is Central’ is an evolving LED art installation that makes a colorful square even more vivid

by Marc Levy April 17, 2026

Art is meant to illuminate, and a series of installations called “Your Light Is Central” went live in Cambridge’s Central Square this week to make that literal.

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‘Starting From Scratch’ shares success secrets from self-made artists, including one venturing into software

by Marc Levy April 5, 2026

It’s not easy making art for a living, but three self-taught creators in Somerville share stories in April about how they bootstrapped their way to a breakthrough.

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Multicultural Arts Center showcases works by high schoolers

by Sadie Barandes March 19, 2026

The show tends toward up-close, pensive portraits of youth and the surreal, part of the center’s mission to show the bold and new.

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Between a Foot Locker and TJ Maxx, a mall hosts Michelangelo

by Michael Gutierrez March 2, 2026

The exhibit “Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel” displays 34 of 60-odd Vatican frescoes, life-sized reproductions visible “like no pope has ever seen them.”