The ARTery's Weekend Preview

Our team rounds up the best of arts and culture for the weekend ahead.

WPI Concert Band during a performance. (Courtesy WPI)

5 things to do this weekend, including a tribute to Major Taylor and a graphic novel festival

Plus, "Book of Mountains and Seas" at ArtsEmerson and the Massachusetts Craft Brewers Festival.

Arts & Culture

Apr 18, 2024

Martin Parr, "Dakar," 2001. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

5 things to do this weekend, including Boston Marathon activities and 'Dress Up' at the MFA

Plus, Wicked Queer’s 40th anniversary and Taiko drumming in the Arnold Arboretum.

Arts & Culture

Apr 11, 2024

Firelei Báez, "A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways)," 2019. (Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth, New York; photo by Phoebe d’Heurle.)

5 things to do this weekend, including Firelei Báez at the ICA and nasturtiums at the Gardner

Plus, a film series all about keeping "score" and one of the actors of "Rent" tells his story.

Arts & Culture

Apr 4, 2024

Virginia L. Molyneaux Hewlett Douglass (Courtesy of the Boston Athenaeum)

5 things to do this weekend, including 'Framing Freedom' at Boston Athenaeum and an ICA play date

Plus, "Buttons On!" at Fuller Craft Museum and "WomAnimation!" at MassArt.

Arts & Culture

Mar 28, 2024

Goats at Appleton Farms. (Courtesy Appleton Farms)

5 things to do this weekend, including time on a farm and a film screening

Plus, brass band Magnificent Danger performs in Lowell and the closing weekend of the play "Stand Up If You're Here Tonight."

Arts & Culture

Mar 21, 2024

LaToya M. Hobbs, "Scene 4: Bedtime for the Boys" from "Carving Out Time," 2020–21. (Courtesy the artist and Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum; photo by Ariston Jacks)

5 things to do this weekend, including story time at Harvard Art Museums and a Celtic ballads workshop

Plus, Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" and "The Theremin Vignettes."

Arts & Culture

Mar 14, 2024

Freedom Trail Revolutionary Women Tour (Courtesy of the Freedom Trail Foundation)

5 things to do this weekend, including Boston's Revolutionary Women walking tour and a '90s jazz night

Plus, a “Babar” concert and Boston Restaurant Week.

Arts & Culture

Mar 7, 2024

Guanyu Xu, "Worlds Within Worlds," 2019. (Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York; President and Fellows of Harvard College; and Harvard Art Museums)

5 things to do this weekend, including a 'Future Minded' art exhibit and leap day celebrations

Plus, a comic-inspired concert premiere and a screening of “The Hypothesis of a Stolen Painting.”

Arts & Culture

Feb 29, 2024

Rebirth Brass Band (Courtesy of Rebirth Brass Band)

5 things to do this weekend, including Rebirth Brass Band in Somerville and 'Vanya' at the Coolidge

Plus, an open mic poetry night in Cambridge and a salsa dance party in Allston.

Arts & Culture

Feb 22, 2024

The cast of 7 Fingers "Duel Reality." (Courtesy Einar Kling Odencrants)

5 things to do this weekend, including 7 Fingers circus company and the Foundry Festival

Plus, Anita Hill at the Boston Conservatory Orchestra and two new art exhibits open in Boston.

Arts & Culture

Feb 15, 2024

Salems So Sweet Ice Sculptures (Courtesy of John Andrews/Creative Collective)

5 things to do this weekend, including ice sculptures in Salem and a science fest in Cambridge

Plus, a Black History Month film series and an art exhibit in Fitchburg.

Arts & Culture

Feb 8, 2024

Drumlin Farm's Ms. G, the official state groundhog of Massachusetts. (Courtesy Mass Audubon)

5 things to do this weekend, including Groundhog Day at Drumlin Farm and 'Fruits by the Foot'

Plus, jam band Slack Tide at Aeronaut Cannery and the final weekend of a Steve McQueen exhibit at the Isabella Steward Gardner Museum.

Arts & Culture

Feb 1, 2024

BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons leads the orchestra in Tania Leon's "Stride." (Courtesy of Robert Torres)

5 things to do this weekend, including casual Friday at the BSO and Company One's 'The Interrobangers'

Plus, stained glass workshops at the MFA and hot chocolate recommendations.

Arts & Culture

Jan 25, 2024

"Changing Landscapes" at the Museum of Science (Courtesy of Nicolaus Czarnecki)

5 things to do this weekend, including Winteractive and 'Changing Landcapes' at the Museum of Science

Plus, Belmont World Film's Family Festival and an exhibit by Ukrainian artists at The Umbrella Arts Center.

Arts & Culture

Jan 18, 2024

Boston Celtic Music Festival 2023 (Courtesy of Dylan Ladd)

5 things to do this weekend, including Boston Celtic Music Festival and a Caribbean dance workshop

Plus, "Real Women Have Curves" at A.R.T. and "Dinosaur World Live" at the Emerson Colonial Theatre.

Arts & Culture

Jan 11, 2024

Danielle Marie Gonzalez (Miss Argentina) and Tour Company of Beetlejuice. (Courtesy of Matthew Murphy)

5 things to do this weekend, including 'Moby Dick' and 'Beetlejuice'

Plus, John Singer Sargent and Free Friday Nights at the Discovery Museum.

Arts & Culture

Jan 4, 2024

Visitors take in lantern sloths on a sold-out opening night of Boston Lights: A Lantern Experience on display at the Franklin Park Zoo until November 1 on Aug. 22, 2020 in Boston, MA. To see the exhibit tickets must be purchased online in advance. (Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

5 dry(ish) things to do while ringing in the New Year in Greater Boston

From a truly wild light display to a relaxing evening flow, here are five dry ways to ring in the new year.

Arts & Culture

Dec 28, 2023

Stephen Shames, "Oakland, California: Kathleen Cleaver, Communications Secretary and first female member of the Party’s decision-making Central Committee, talks with Black Panthers from Los Angeles who came to the “Free Huey” rally in DeFremery Park (named by the Panthers Bobby Hutton Park) in West Oakland" (detail), 1968. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

5 things to do this weekend, including winter solstice celebrations and 'Comrade Sisters' at the MFA

Plus, Wintery Songs in Eleventy Part Harmony and Disney On Ice skaters at Frog Pond.

Arts & Culture

Dec 21, 2023

Great Hall at Faneuil Hall (Courtesy of NPS)

5 things to do this weekend, including the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and ‘A Christmas Carol’

Plus, Improv Asylum and an exhibit on queer love at the Rose Art Museum.

Arts & Culture

Dec 14, 2023

Hugh Hayden's "Huff and a Puff" at deCordova Sculpture Park (Courtesy of Mel Taing)

5 things to do this weekend, including a twist on Thoreau's cabin and 'Waitress: The Musical' at the cinema

Plus, a Hanukkah pop-up bar and Animile in concert at the ICA.

Arts & Culture

Dec 7, 2023