WBUR/The ARTery 10 Visual Art Installations That Made Us Think in 2019 December 23, 2019

“Created in a spirit of joy and inclusiveness, and in partnership with local community organizations, Augment offers a model that I hope more art presenters will emulate.”

WBUR/The ARTery 2019 In Boston Arts: A Year Of Convening December 23, 2019

“The project gathered folks for more than a dozen workshops to explore what sparked joy for them and to express it by parading through the streets.”

The Boston Globe The Ticket: What’s Happening in the Public Art World August 4, 2019

“The indefatigable installation and performance artist Nick Cave commences a months-long project presented by public art curator Now + There with an exhibition that fills the Cyclorama with a sculpture made of 1,000 inflatable lawn ornaments.”

Wonderland What Brings You Joy?—Nick Cave Fills Boston Cyclorama With Holiday Inflatables August 7, 2019

“Cave says he has been thinking about the term ‘augment,’ this notion to ‘enhance or making things better,’ and thinking about ‘things that we need to feed our souls.’”

The Boston Globe Inflatable cartoon monsters feel like ‘a form of protest’ at South End’s Cyclorama August 9, 2019

“With Now + There, Cave chose to work with more than a dozen community agencies in Uphams Corner, an impoverished sector of Dorchester surrounded by the competing pressures of crime and intensifying commercial development.”

WBUR/The ARTery Creepy, Colorful, Inflatable Sculptures Bring Nick Cave Joy. So He's Bringing Them To Boston August 9

“That idea of breaking the barrier between art-world elite and community arts is very on-brand for Cave, who often invites the public to participate in his work. For ‘Augment,’ Now + There partnered with DS4SI.”

Cultured Magazine Nick Cave Bring His Inflatable Parade to Boston August 11

“For Nick Cave, art is all about happiness: what it is, what it means to us, and how to find it in a world so often overshadowed by injustice.”

Surface Magazine Artist Nick Cave Spreads a Little Joy August 15

“With themes of togetherness and spreading joy throughout the city, artist Nick Cave brings a sense of community to Boston with Augment, a three-part project with public art agency Now + There.”

Boston Art Review A Joy Ride with Nick Cave September 11

“The process brings me the joy, and through process is the result, which allows me to deliver it to the community at large.”

WBUR/The ARTery Photos: See Nick Cave's Giant Inflatable Sculpture Parade From South End To Upham's Corner September 15

“Commissioned by public art organization Now + There, Augment consists of a community-driven vinyl building wrap on the side of a building in Upham's Corner, a collection of massive inflatable sculptures and a parade.”

Wonderland Photos: Nick Cave's 'Joy Parade' In Boston September 15

“Artist Nick Cave’s Joy Parade escorted the Chicago artist’s inflatable sculptures (pictured above) from the Boston Center for the Arts to 555 Columbia Ave. in Uphams Corner in Boston, where they will be exhibited through April 2020.”

New York Times Style Magazine Nick Cave is the most Joyful, and Critical, Artist in America October 20, 2019

“Cave understands that the lost art of creating community, of joining forces to accomplish a task at hand, whether it’s beading a curtain or mending the tattered social fabric, depends upon igniting a kind of dreaming, a gameness, a childlike ability to imagine ideas into being. But it also involves recognizing the disparate histories that divide and bind us. The strength of any group depends on an awareness of its individuals.”

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