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We’re back for 2018- Our First Tour is This Upcoming Weekend

Our first tour this year is coming up soon. Check it out: Boston Street Art and Graffiti Walking Tour (April)

This is the classic Boston tour, just with a new description:

Spend a couple of hours with an expert guide checking out some of the best street art and graffiti in the city. The tour focuses almost exclusively on large-scale, commissioned murals in highly visible, public areas. The goal of this tour is to shine a light on graffiti style murals and street art installations as they exist in the community and to explore the different aspects of what graffiti and street art mean in 2018.

Depending on the makeup and interests of the group the tour can focus on different aspects of these two related artistic movements.

This is a walking tour, consisting of a three mile walk. We meet at Starbucks on Huntington Ave and end up at Canary Square (435 South Huntington Avenue) in Jamaica Plain. This is a one way tour.

No transportation will be provided back to the start although it’s an easy trip on the 39 Bus, the Orange Line or short ride back to the start in a taxi or car-sharing service.

The tour runs in (almost) all weather. Heavy rain or a freak snowstorm will cancel with a full refund.

Our graffiti and street art photo collection You Can’t Win is avilable as an add-on to your ticket and will be delivered at the start of the tour. Every attendee receives a sticker pack.

NOTE: This tour requires 4 attendees to run. If there are less than 4 attendees signed up 48 hours in advance, the tour may be canceled with a full refund.

I’ll be listing several more tours this week, so keep your eyes on on our Twitter and Eventbrite Organizer page for the latest.

Posted on April 9, 2018 by artwalksboston

Summer Season is Underway- 4 Tours Listed

The next few weeks will be busy around here. Check out the next four events we’ve got planned. It’s been a lot of fun so far this year, I plan to keep up the good times throughout the summer.

The Street Art and Graffiti Tour is the same tour I’ve been running for a while now. The new Graffiti tour is described like this:

DESCRIPTION
Spend a couple of hours with an expert guide checking out some of the most interesting graffiti in the city. If you’ve been on one of our regular Street Art and Graffiti Tours, this one is a little different format. While there are many commisioned and legal murals on this tour, a good portion of this walk will focus on truly ephmeral street graffiti. Because of that it’ll be a little bit different every time.
This is a walking tour, consisting of an approximately two mile walk. We meet at the Stony Brook Orange Line station in Jamaica Plain and end up at Roxbury Crossing Orange Line station. This is a one way tour.
No transportation will be provided back to the start although it’s an easy trip on the Orange Line, a walk along the Southwest Corridor Park (grab a Hubway!) or short ride back to the start in a taxi or car-sharing service.

I hope to see you out there with me!

Boston Graffiti Walking Tour (Mid-June) Tickets, Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 1:30 PM | Eventbrite

Boston Graffiti Walking Tour (Early July) Tickets, Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 1:30 PM | Eventbrite

Boston Street Art and Graffiti Walking Tour (June) Tickets, Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite

Boston Street Art and Graffiti Walking Tour (July) Tickets, Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite

Posted on June 7, 2017 by artwalksboston

Road Trip: Yale University Art Gallery

Unlike my previous road trip recommendation this one means you have to leave the state. Still, visiting the Yale University Art Gallery is well worth the trip. Like Harvard, Yale has a remarkable collection and the galleries are small enough that it can be taken in over the course of an afternoon.

It’s a couple of hours from Boston. We did it as an add-on trip coming back from New York. That’s a pretty great way to do it as it breaks up the drive nicely. We added lunch at Heirloom.

There are some real standouts in the collection. Van Gogh’s Le café de nuit is the most obvious blockbuster, but as you can see you can slo take in works by artists as diverse as Manet, Basquiat, Motherwell and Bronzino over the course of an afternoon. I was personally very impressed with the excellent collection of works by the American Thomas Eakins. It was the best concentration of his work I’ve seen outside of Philadelphia and it was a real highlight of the afternoon.