Spring

It’s the time of year when people are itching to shed their layers of clothes and take a deep breath of that fresh spring air. We want outside. Over the years, artists have taken inspiration from the season and applied it to their craft. If you’re filled with anticipation for the real arrival of spring, you’ll love these selected artworks from The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Well-tended lawns and the sound of leaf blowers have a lot to do with California’s immigrant roots, and not just ones that stretch south into Latin America. The history of garden work in California stretches further back to the state’s striving Japanese immigrant community.

New clothes and goldfish? Not your usual spring rituals, we know. But those are two ways to celebrate Nowruz. Iranian-American comedian K-von Moezzi explains the rest of the Persian New Year festivities in his offbeat, video mini-doc.

New clothes and goldfish? Not your usual spring rituals, we know. But those are two ways to celebrate Nowruz. Iranian-American comedian K-von Moezzi explains the rest of the Persian New Year festivities in his offbeat, video mini-doc.

Across the world, scientists are trying to determine where seasons are shifting. Spring arriving earlier, winter arriving later — it’s happening in many countries. Now, the question is, what will be the consequences of that change.