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Most Armory arts building leases are approved, but Somerville lacks a plan to fill its remaining spaces

by Marc Levy September 23, 2026

An argument for giving more responsibility to Arts at the Armory, the building’s longtime nonprofit anchor tenant, comes at staff from three directions.

ART AND DESIGN

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.

ART AND DESIGN

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.

ART AND DESIGN

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.

NEWS

After Food Nation and Honk!, Davis Square project looks at funding from a parking improvement district (updated)

by Marc Levy September 9, 2026

The group working to revive Davis Square is feeling good about its first five months, preparing for a big end to its first season and already looking at what’s coming in 2027.

BUSINESS

Somerville’s Out of the Blue art gallery is on the move back to Allston

by Marc Levy August 27, 2026

The Out of the Blue Art Gallery is packed to leave Somerville for the Jackson Mann Community Center in Allston, with some art scattering to Cambridge, Medford and Waltham.

ARTS

Sign of the Dove arts collective has a new home in Porter Square

by Marc Levy August 25, 2026

The art store Sign of the Dove reopens Sept. 1 at Lesley’s University Hall – next to Porter Square Books – in time for the Cambridge Arts Open Studios.

NEWS

Somerville meetings, Aug. 10-17: Fixing up the Armory and saving more room for the arts

by Marc Levy August 9, 2026

Take part in CSO plan community office hours and meetings on Winter Hill school plans, Armory infrastructure needs and preservation of creative space.

ARTS

‘One Night Art School’ event sold out immediately in a Union Square building with empty lab space

by Marc Levy July 29, 2026

Maybe the the arts should be taken more seriously as economic infrastructure, suggests a coalition of local arts organizations and businesses.

BUSINESS

Armory arts building tenants are announced, with Center for Arts at the Armory staying, Out of the Blue leaving

by Marc Levy July 16, 2026

The Center for Arts at the Armory will remain the anchor tenant at the Armory, the Somerville-owned community arts building.