Dianna Bell

Arts & Culture Editor

Dianna Bell is an editor of arts and culture for WBUR. She graduated from High Point University with a bachelor's degree in media and pop culture studies, and with a master's in arts journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Recently published

Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924, United States), "Travel Album: India, Pakistan, Yemen, and Egypt, Volume VI, page 38, 1884." Bound album including collected photographs, found papers, pressed botanicals, and pen and ink annotations. (Courtesy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)

5 things to do this weekend, including an improv show and a travel-inspired exhibit at the Gardner Museum

Plus, SpeakEasy Stage Company’s production of “Fairview” and the Somerville Writers & Readers Winter Market.

Arts & Culture

Mar 9, 2023

Artist Robert Greene's "mixer" on display in The Umbrella Arts Center's 2022 Art Ramble in Concord's Hapgood Wright Town Forest. (Courtesy Ron Mann)

5 things to do this weekend, including an artsy ramble in the woods and a Brooke Adams double feature

Plus, the return of the musical “SIX” and the world premiere of Boston Opera Collaborative’s “Love in the Time Of…”

Arts & Culture

Nov 10, 2022

The cast of Boston Lyric Opera's "La bohème." (Courtesy Olivia Moon)

5 things to do this weekend, including a reverse staging of 'La bohème' and a screening of 'Nosferatu'

Plus, Latinx Heritage Night at the MFA and the annual open studios in Roxbury.

Arts & Culture

Sep 29, 2022

WBUR Presents: The Makers

These artists of color are leaving their imprint on Massachusetts and elevating their artforms.

Arts & Culture

Sep 19, 2022

Lia Cirio in Mikko Nissinen's "Swan Lake." (Courtesy Rosalie O'Connor/Boston Ballet)

5 things to do this weekend, including Boston Ballet's 'Swan Lake' and the Coolidge Corner Arts Festival

Plus, a chamber orchestra performance celebrating Pride Month and a world premier from Guerilla Opera.

Arts & Culture

Jun 2, 2022

The Boston Pops perform at the Hatch Memorial Shell during a previous July 4 performance. (Courtesy of Michael Blanchard/BSO)

Pops' Fourth of July spectacular returns to Boston for first time since pandemic began

For the first time since 2019, the Boston Pops will return to the Charles River Esplanade for the Fireworks Spectacular.

Arts & Culture

May 26, 2022

Aerial view of Boston Calling in 2017. (Courtesy Boston Calling)

5 things to do this weekend, including the return of Boston Calling and the ICA's Watershed

Plus, a massive display of American flags for Memorial Day and New Rep's New Voices Theatre Festival.

Arts & Culture

May 26, 2022

Borromeo Quartet. (Courtesy Borromeo Quartet/Richard Bowditch)

5 things to do this weekend, including a Borromeo String Quartet performance and the Boston Comics in Color Festival

Plus, a first listen to Guerilla Opera's upcoming production and a day of climate action at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Arts & Culture

Apr 21, 2022

Zanele Muholi, "Itha," 2021. (Courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, and Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town/Johannesburg)

5 things to do this weekend, including 'Being Muholi' at the Gardner and a papermaking class

Plus, a drag cabaret and a multidisciplinary livestreamed play.

Arts & Culture

Feb 10, 2022

Whitney White with Phoenix Best, Reggie D. White, and Kira Helper in "Macbeth In Stride" at American Repertory Theater. (Courtesy A.R.T./Lauren Miller.)

Reflecting on our favorite arts and culture moments of 2021

WBUR's arts and culture team reflects on moments from the year that provided reprieve, whether it was through a trip to the ICA or watching a movie at the cinema.

Arts & Culture

Dec 21, 2021