Join us Thursday, May 6 at 12:00 pm for the next episode of N+T Asks! This season, we’re zooming in on 8 more Boston locales to ask: “where do you see your neighborhood in the year 2030?” Next up: the South End.

Executive Director Kate Gilbert will be joined by two guests for a future-focused, hyperlocal discussion that asks all Bostonians to reimagine what’s next for our city — and brainstorm how we might get there. This episode, we're chatting with artist and professor Mark Cooper, and artist + Director of the Youth Development Program at IBA Boston, Pedro Cruz.

Boston Art Review editor-in-chief Jameson Johnson and Now + There assistant curator Leah Triplett Harrington will host a conversation with artists, curators, and community leaders around the future of public art in Boston. This panel will overview current trends and topics in the field, with a special focus on public art's role in creating a more culturally equitable Boston.

Join us Tuesday July 28 at 6pm as we host artist/journalist Arielle Grey for a conversation about the past, present, and future of memorials and monuments in Boston and beyond.

Join Now + There, UNLESS artist Stephanie Cardon, and Boston Properties for a conversation with educators, activists, Boston city officials and climate experts for an intersectional conversation about climate change, environmental justice, and an empowering reminder of the agency we each have to create meaningful change.

Join MA-NMWA for an Artist Talk with UNLESS artist Stephanie Cardon. Stephanie will speak to this stunning work of public art, which explores sustainability, climate justice, and how taking action together can create positive change.

Join Now + There and Boston University in hosting an artist talk, Liz Glynn: Monuments, Mythologies, and Other Things that Fall Apart, by the artist of Open House.

Open House transforms the Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Kenmore Square into an open air ruin of a ballroom. In this contemporary re-imagining of a historically exclusive space, Glynn addresses the evolving face of a city: who has access to space in a society that is increasingly divided along socio-economic lines? And how can we use history to shape a different future?

Now + There supports local art institutions that discuss, critique and otherwise share information about public art and invite all to attend this Town Hall lecture by MassArt, a part of the 50 State Initiative from For Freedoms, which was founded by Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman and aims to spur greater participation in civic life.

Now + There is proud to partner with the Boston Public Library (BPL) Central Branch to present Public Conversation: Public Art, Civic Space, and Activism.

Join us for a conversation with artists Steve Locke, Liz Glynn and Lina Maria Giraldo whose current civic-minded public artworks prompt us to consider the definition and composition of "the public". BPL president David Leonard moderates this conversation about the role public art plays in shaping a public dialogue.

What are monuments? What should they memorialize, and why?  Who gets to select and place memorials? How should our communities interact with monuments? Beyond the Bust, a panel discussion between public artists, administrators, and scholars, will explore the meaning of public monuments in Boston and beyond.

Over the past 25 years Paul Ramírez Jonas has sought to challenge the definitions of art and the public and to engineer active audience participation and exchange. His visiting artist lecture at MassArt on Wed., October 28 is free and open to all. Co-sponsored by MassArt and Now and There.