Arts & Entertainment

Danforth Art — which was the Danforth Museum until 2013 — has long been a fixture in the downtown Framingham area. But that's expected to change within a few years. Leading the charge will be Debra Petke, the new executive director.

The group that sought to bring the 2024 Summer Olympic Games to Boston said Tuesday the state-commissioned report that identified sources of risk to state taxpayers contains "several" errors and misrepresentations.

(UPDATED at 1:52 p.m.) USRowing's Masters National Championships is returning to Lake Quinsigamond next year, Destination Worcester said today. The competition will be held Aug. 18-21 and will be hosted by Destination Worcester and the Quinsigamond Rowing Association.

Yesterday, Framingham's Danforth Art Museum, which has served the MetroWest community with exhibitions and art education programs for the last 40 years, announced it's the recipient of a $40,000 grant to fund research and preservation of Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, a renowned artist who lived in Framingham before her death in 1968.

A new poll is showing lackluster support for a Boston Olympics bid. A WBUR poll released Friday morning showed 42 percent of those surveyed statewide said they support hosting the games in the Boston area, with 50 percent opposed. That's barely up from the 39-49 split in June.

It's still “lights, camera, credit” in Massachusetts. Despite the urging of Gov. Charlie Baker to kill the film tax credit, the legislature kept it active as it wrapped up budget negotiations Wednesday for fiscal 2006.

Worcester has officially entered the 2024 Boston Olympic debate with handball competition slated to take place at the DCU Center if Boston is selected as the host city for the 2024 Games, Boston 2024 announced Wednesday.

Earlier this year, the Worcester Sharks announced they would leave the DCU Center for California. With the...

Seeing great opportunity in the area's US Olympics bid, a Metro Boston planning group said private dollars should fund a substantial amount of infrastructure upgrades, and the state should protect tenants and the homeless from displacement.

The sizes of their sneakers have changed, but Andrea Shliapa and Timothy MacDonald have put their footsteps...