This weekend marks the opening of the Boston Harbor Islands for the season. While Bostonians will be eager to take advantage of Free Ferry Day on Saturday, no one would have been excited about a free ...

SPECTACLE ISLAND IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR. CLEAN UP OF THE ONCE POLLUTED WATERS OF BOSTON HARBOR, REVIVED INTEREST IN AND OPENED ACCESS TO THE 34 HARBOR ISLANDS. BOATING HAS RETURNED PEOPLE CAMP ON ...

Guy Debord’s (1931–1994) best-known work, La société du spectacle (The Society of the Spectacle) (1967), is a polemical and prescient indictment of our image-saturated consumer culture. The book ...

“As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe readers. SPECTACLE ISLAND — It’s just a 4.2 mile ferry ride from Long Wharf in ...

When a 367-foot-tall eyeball started blinking in Las Vegas over the summer, the world’s architectural standards got reset. The eye was a video image projecting out from the Sphere, one of the most ...

The career of photographer Weegee (born Arthur Fellig, 1899–1968) is often divided into two distinct phases, one gritty, the other glamorous. Celebrated for his sensationalist images of crime scenes, ...

Among the misuses of technology, one is its use for publicity stunts and self-advertising gimmicks. People who are the anthropomorphic expressions of TS Eliot's hollow men resort to self-exhibitionism ...

Netflix introduced a spectacle and events TV division last year, led by exec Peter Friedlander. Friedlander broke down the difference between spectacle and event programming. He also discussed shows ...

Trey Flynn is a Feature Writer and a Co-Host of The Extra Credits Podcast Contact: [email protected] Editor's note: The below article contains spoilers for Nope.During Barack Obama’s ...

‘Television Was a Baby Crawling towards That Deathchamber.’ These words are by Allen Ginsberg, writing in 1961, the title of a poem anathematising America. ‘It is here, the long Awaited bleap-blast ...