Tania Ralli

Assistant Managing Editor, Arts & Culture

Tania Ralli is assistant managing editor of arts and culture at WBUR.

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Duane Slick, "Crafting a Consequential Narrative," 2020. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

These artists shared what inspired them in 2023

As we reflect on the year, and all of the moments that brought us joy, we checked in with a group of folks that have inspired us at WBUR: members...

Arts & Culture

Dec 14, 2023

The 2023 Makers (left to right): Gabriel Sosa, Dzidzor, Szu-Chieh Yun, Arson Fahim, Rixy, Alex Diaz, Kimaya Diggs, Alison Croney Moses, Alison Qu. Not pictured: Danny Rivera. (OJ Slaughter for WBUR)

WBUR Presents: The 2023 Makers

These 10 artists of color are interrogating the past, reframing the present day and imagining a better future.

Arts & Culture

Oct 16, 2023

Edvard Munch, "The Sun," 1912. (Courtesy Munchmuseet/Ove Kvavik and Artists Rights Society, New York)

12 art exhibits to visit this summer

From Edward Hopper to Edvard Munch and art inspired by seaweed, Massachusetts' summer visual arts scene has a little something for everyone.

Arts & Culture

Jun 16, 2023

Simone Leigh, "Martinique," 2022. Glazed stoneware. (Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery; photo by Timothy Schenck)

10 art exhibits to check out this spring

The art stars are aligning in Greater Boston with a spring full of fresh work. Head to the MFA for a recently-opened exhibition featuring the work of 19th-century enslaved Black...

Arts & Culture

Mar 21, 2023

Donna Esolen, "Untitled" (2021), embroidery floss on printed fabric. (Courtesy Fuller Craft Museum)

12 art exhibits to explore this winter

The shows present a sense of interrelatedness, and while the work may come from different corners of the world, much of it expresses human vitality, how we grow and change.

Arts & Culture

Jan 9, 2023

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

Milica, played by Victoria L. Awkward, center, and her bridesmaids in the Boston Lyric Opera's latest cinematic production "Svadba." (Courtesy BLO)

5 things to do this weekend, including a cinematic opera and intricate miniature paintings

Plus a documentary about the first all-female rock band to put out an album on a major label and family shipbuilding at the USS Constitution Museum.

Arts & Culture

Jan 27, 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

In the foreground, left to right, Luke Ferrari as Possible, YDE as Sophia, and Paravi Das as Forte with members of the Boston Children’s Chorus in "WILD: A Musical Becoming." (Courtesy Maggie Hall/Nile Scott Studios)

A.R.T. cancels remaining 'WILD' performances due to COVID breakthrough

The A.R.T. has also called off the remaining performances at OBERON, its second stage in Harvard Square, in advance of its permanent closure on Arrow Street at the end of...

Arts & Culture

Dec 20, 2021