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Detail view of a state mail-in ballot for Massachusetts's November 3 Election Day.

Civic Culture • Oct 19, 2026

Three Ballot Questions that Could Affect the Arts This November

Massachusetts voters face nine ballot questions this November. Questions 3, 4, and 5 could change how the state elects its leaders, who can participate in elections, and how public revenue is managed. MASSCreative brought together advocates to discuss what’s at stake. Here’s what we learned.

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ArtWonk: A New Biweekly Column

Civic Culture • Oct 01, 2026

ArtWonk: What Does It Take to Make Precarity a Collective Cause in the Arts?

At Company One Theatre’s Boston cultural policy event, artists, funders, and policymakers considered living wages and the beginnings of a collective agenda for the arts. Similar concerns surfaced in local talks by artist Josh Kline and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who each took aim at the growing concentration of wealth and the threats to democracy that arise from the prohibitive cost of participating in society.

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Civic Culture • Sep 18, 2026

ArtWonk: Censorship, Threats of Demolition, and Other Signs of the Season

Greater Boston’s Robert Kraft enters the fight over artists’ speech amid ongoing targeting of the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian. More hope for the arts is offered abroad, with President Emmanuel Macron calling for a “new multilateralism” across creative industries.

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Various spreads from Boston Art Review's Issue 11: Emerge, spread on a grey background

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