At the Carpenter Center, “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten” Attempts to Piece Together the Undefinable Life and Practice of Harry Smith

Making Theater for the Most Drama-Prone of Audiences

Illuminus Kicks Off First Neighborhood-Specific Activation at an Old Tire Shop in Dorchester

Literature and Liberation: A Bookstore and Gathering Place Comes to Fields Corner

In Photos: The Boston Art Review Issue 13 Launch Party

At MassArt Art Museum, "Displacement" Tells a Story of Environmental Destruction and Human Migration

New To Town: Carmen Hermo on her Appointment as Curator of Contemporary Art at the MFA

Artadia Announces 2024 Boston Awardees

"Alive and Kicking" Packs a Playful Punch at the Colby College Museum of Art

At Boston Cyberarts Gallery, "Plastic Image Retrospective" Reflects on When Xerox Machines Were Avant-Garde

Making Her Mark: Jo Ann Rothschild on Forms in Motion and the Perpetual Emergence of Women Artists

“Four Womxn: New Musings on Blackness” Centers the Black Female Gaze at the MFA

At Brookline Arts Center, Inas Halabi Filters Destruction Through a Red Lens in "To a Returning Cloud"

In Newport, a Queer Sex Scandal and Sailor Sting Operation From 1919 Get a Film Dramatization

At MASS MoCA, “Like Magic” Offers Mystical Resistance

A Bookstore, Collective, and Exhibition: At Tufts University Art Galleries, "Ulises: Assembly" Illustrates How Artists’ Books Refuse to be Defined

At LaiSun Keane, Michael C. Thorpe’s Quilts Challenge Convention in “Barstool Sports”

Eleven Art Exhibitions to See in Massachusetts This Fall

At the Portland Museum of Art, Jeremy Frey's Baskets Conjure the Past While Presenting a Warning for the Future

Department of Public Imagination’s Radical Guide to Rest and Relaxation

At Piano Craft Gallery, Ryan Horton Finds His Footing with "Ego & Insecurities"

 In “No Place Like Home,” Three Artists Present Fresh Perspectives on the Streets of Arlington

Another SoWa Departure: In Conversation with Abigail Ogilvy on the Closure of Her Boston Gallery

Firelei Báez: Unveiling the Pan-African Diaspora

Heather McPherson Grasps at Loss, Memory, and Dreams at the Distillery Gallery

Vivid Oblivion's New Performance Series Leaves "Some Kind Of Residue"

Exhibition of Envelopes Addressed by Notable Designers Fills the Drawers at Katherine Small Gallery

A New Mural by Thomas “Detour” Evans Provokes a Conversation About Where Public Art Belongs 

At Gallery Kayafas, Photography that Captures the Agency of the Incarcerated

Karma’s Maine Group Show “A Particular Kind of Heaven” Offers a Century of Skygazing

Love, Hijinks, and Fragile Groundwork: A Conversation with Ethan Murrow

Wu Tsang's "Of Whales” Conjures an Otherworldly Oceanscape at a Distance from the Real Thing

Moko Fukuyama Creates Microcosms From a Tackle Box

Two Sides of Summer: "Tara Donovan and Hamish Fulton" at Krakow Witkin Gallery

A Perch with Purpose: Jean Shin's Salvaged Trees Greet Birds and Visitors at Appleton Farms

A Revisionist History: Bats! at Peabody Essex Museum

At ODD-KIN, Jungil Hong Defies the Constraints of the Labor of Art-Making

2024 Boston Art Writing Fellows Blog: Exhibition Reflections

Continuity in Community Organizing: Engaging Movement Histories Held at Museums

Unearthed History: Tragedy and Triumph in Maya Erdelyi’s "Anyuka"

LaToya M. Hobbs Traces Intimacies

Jay Critchley Provocatively Pairs Patriotism with Queerness at SPOKE Gallery

At BAMS Fest, the "Rep Your City" Art and Graffiti Exhibition Returns with an Art Sale

What to See at New England Galleries this Summer

When Artists Organize: The fight against displacement in Greater Boston

Fourteen Must-See Museum Exhibitions to Check Out in New England This Summer

At Gallery VERY, a Mini Retrospective of Work by Rob Moore Reveals an Overlooked Pillar in Boston’s 1970s–90s Art Scene

In Providence, "Everything Living Fights Back" Gets a Second Life Following Censorship of Shey 'Rí Acu' Rivera Ríos by Providence College

At Ellen Miller Gallery, Cristi Rinklin Paints on a Slippery Plane of Memory and Perception

Tim McCool Suspends Time and Shadows at Anderson Yezerski Gallery

An Honest Self-Rendering: Looking Inside of Sima Schloss’s On Empathy at ShowUp

Ode to the Barbershop: Style as Preservation in Erick Maldonado Delights Momentum at Kingston Gallery

A History of the Folly Cove Designers, a Pioneering Printmaking Collective

Putting the Public in Public Art: How participatory projects are bringing Bostonians together

Eat With Your Eyes Offers Temptations at Gallery 263

In Photos: The Boston Art Review Issue 12 Launch Party

New Gallery No Call No Show Gives Artists a Space to Test-Run Big Ideas

2024 Benefit Art Sale

YouthBuild Boston Hosts First-Ever Gallery Exhibit, Bringing the Work of Stull and Lee to a New Generation of Architects

“Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And” at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College

Community Engagement Is Underway for a New Vietnam War Memorial in Dorchester

Now + There Changes Name to Boston Public Art Triennial and Announces Plans for a City-Wide Triennial in 2025

BU MFA Exhibition “Sculpturecore” Takes to an Abandoned CVS to Probe at What Lies Beneath the Surface

Taleen Batalian and Françoise McAree in Tandem: “Counterpoint” at Overlap Gallery

Language, Symbols, and Systems: Sneha Shrestha Layers Personal Devotions with Cultural Rituals

Boston Art Review Appoints First Executive Director

In Portland, Lauren Luloff Creates New Formations

Fountain Street Gallery to Close at the End of March

Announcing New Board Members and Leadership Appointments

Shantel Miller’s “I’ve Been Trying to Reach You” Converses Across the Divide

At the Whitney Biennial, Expansive Representations of Age, Gender, and Technology Are Subtly on Display

Corporal Identity: “On Her Terms: Feminine Power Embodied” at the Fitchburg Art Museum

Tragedies Transcending Time: Allie Tsubota’s “Dead Letter Room” Joins Late Poet Hara Tamiki’s Correspondence with Ghosts

MASS MoCA Unionized Workers Embark on Indefinite Strike Over Wages

Sunlit Sentiments: Yorgos Efthymiadis’s “The Lighthouse Keepers” at Gallery Kayafas     

Announcing the 2024 Emerging Boston Art Writing Fellows

Jessi Stegall Is Offering Odes

Anti-melody, Insurgent Rhythm: Ekene Ijeoma’s “Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts” Uses the National Anthem to Shine a Light on Racial Injustice

A Grab Bag of Goodies from the Edge of the World: The Fine Arts Work Center Fellows at PAAM

Advancing the Creative Sector Legislative Agenda: A Breakdown of the Bills

Thirteen Exhibitions to Catch This Winter

“The Myth of Normal: A Celebration of Authentic Expression” at MassArt Art Museum

Speculative Tourism from NYC to the DMZ: Sophie Friedman-Pappas and TJ Shin in Conversation with Moira Sims

Christian Walker: Thoroughly Political, Poignant, and Worthy of Further Exploration

Taking Back the Narrative(s): “Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice” at Brandeis’ Kniznick Gallery

Clowns, Double-Takes, and Canadian Exports: New “Winteractive” Installations in Downtown Crossing Aim to Spark Dialogue and Connection, but for Whom?

Inside Your Insides: “Getting to Ick” at Hesse Flatow

“Faith Ringgold: Freedom to Say What I Please” at Worcester Art Museum

"As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic” at Peabody Essex Museum

New Expressions of Traditional Genres at LaiSun Keane

America on Display: Making the Museum a Classroom for Citizenship

“Always Be Around: Corita Kent, Community and Pedagogy” at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at Holy Cross

Material Transformation and Voyages of Change: Reggie Burrows Hodges’s “Turning a Big Ship” at the Addison Gallery of American Art 

Caroline Bagenal’s Swimming Sculptures Explore the Healing Power of Water

Holiday Markets for Shopping Local in the Greater Boston Area

2023 Holiday Gift Guide

Queered Botany, Quilted Archives: In Conversation with Aaron McIntosh

Adoration and Collections by the Sea at the New Bedford Whaling Museum

Canvases of Camouflage: In Conversation With Tammy Nguyen

Images Reclaimed: Chantal Zakari's New Book Sends Messages to Those Inside

Eyes Without a Face: Providence-Based Duo Velvet Other World Explore Sexuality and Concealment

Visits and Vigils: Crystalle Lacouture’s Material Memories

Holding Humanity with the Boston Palestine Film Festival: A Conversation with Erik DeLuca and Michael Maria

Modernism Both Past and Present Shine in Two Shows at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art

What to See and Do at This Year's Boston Art Book Fair

Announcing the 2023 Boston Artadia Awardees

Sculpting as Translation: In Conversation with Jocelyn Shu

Building Worlds of Resistance: A Conversation with Arghavan Khosravi

Artadia Announces 2023 Boston Finalists

Putting the Art in Startup: How Anupallavi Sinha Is Inviting Artists into the Laab

A People’s Archive: “Hip-Hop: Seen/Unseen” opens on the Greenway

Pillow Talk: Intimacy and Animacy in "STUFFED"

Printing in P-town: Overlooked Printers Make an Impression at the MFA

In Harvard Square, Nat Reed’s “Bikes Move Us” Conveys New Meanings from Old Forms

Fourteen Exhibitions to Catch This Fall

At Beacon Gallery, Photographer Cheryl Miller Captures Eternal Communities

At Karma’s Summer Outpost in Maine, Color Breaks the Silence of a Former Church

Brian Smith Explores Aquatic Futures in “That Queer Fish”

Five Questions with Filmmaker Lilan Yang

Elizabeth Colomba's "Mythologies" Reclaims Whitewashed Narratives

Portraits and Perception: At Gallery VERY, Familiar Faces Line the Walls of “PERSONA”

A Trove of Donelan’s Queer Cartoons Delights at Jameson & Thompson

A Short but Winding Road in Matthew Wong’s Paintings at MFA, Boston

Learning and Imagining Reparations with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics

Passing the Torch: Edmund Barry Gaither and Danny Rivera on Organizing and Keeping the Faith

The Undeniable Legacy of Edgefield's Black Potters Rings Loud and Clear at the MFA

Kate Greene’s “Black Sun” Toys With Photographic Distortion at Grant Wahlquist Gallery

Capturing Childhood: In Conversation with Photographer Kristen Emack 

Mapping Obsessão: In Conversation with Lyle Ashton Harris

From Murals to Movements: How Street Art Is Transforming East Boston and Beyond

Covert Operations: Tyler Coburn and Ian Hatcher's Remote Viewer Explores CIA Seances

Take the Day: Fourteen Exhibitions That Warrant Art-Filled Trips Across New England

Imagining with Imagine W/: Circle Squared Screens Black Artist Conversations at the ICA for Juneteenth

Juneteenth 2023: Cultural and Community Gatherings Across Boston

Lucy Kim’s Vibrant Matter Mystifies and Enchants in “Dead or Dormant” at ODD-KIN

A Bygone Era in Boston’s Punk Scene Is Revisited in Michael Grecco’s Anderson Yezerski Exhibition

In “Letters Mingle Souls,” Mitsuko Brooks's Mail Art Ventures Beyond Life and Death

At MAAM, Jace Clayton Invites the Public to Coauthor his Algorithmic Musical Scores

The Sublime Feminine: Caleb Yono’s “Flotsam” Actualizes Femme Futures at Shoe Bones Gallery

In “Rhyming the Invisible,” Charles Yuen Scripts a Planet into Existence through his First Solo Exhibition in Boston

Event Recap: The Fifth Anniversary and Issue 10 Release Party

A Film for Transient Archives: In Conversation with Georden West

Fifth Anniversary Benefit Art Sale

Speculative Narratives for Corrective Futures: In Conversation with Elisabeth Subrin

Bad Math with Good Results: Brooke Stewart’s Solo Presentation at Boston Center for the Arts

Boston Art Review Announces its Inaugural Board of Directors

Benefit for the Art Writing Fellowship Fund: Crystalle Lacouture's "Good Power from All Directions"

Textile Politics: Newport Art Museum’s “Social Fabric” Remixes the Subversive Stitch

In “The Familiars,” Haley Wood and Aris Moore Craft Creatures that Recall Our Younger Selves

“Call and Response” Imagines a Radical Collective Future in the Midst of Isolation

Like Mel King: Honoring His Legacy

Alejandra Cuadra and Ashley Page Present Artistic Journeys That Intertwine

Artists are Reconsidering the Relics at Tufts University Art Galleries

In “Barkley” at Apartment 13 Gallery, A Cult Hero Makes a Comeback

Sarah Meyers Brent Brings New Life to the Objects we Leave Behind

Marissa Cote's “I promise to stay in touch” Asks How We Exercise Love

Conflict Rouses Providence Arts Community: Artist Nafis M. White Calls Upon Volunteers to Keep Doors of Central Contemporary Arts Open; CCA Responds by Shutting Doors Permanently

At “All Black Everything,” the Museum of NCAAA Came to Life with a Community Celebration

Ripple Effects: Diving into “Waterlines” at the Somerville Museum

Babes in Toyland: Gendered Dynamics “At Play” in Northeastern’s Gallery 360

Announcing the 2023 Boston Art Writing Fellows

Books of Beauty: The Boston Athenaeum Presents a Symposium on Artists' Books in the 21st Century March 10-11

A Gutted Pub at MIT has Been Brought to Life as a Cybernetic Performance Site

Thirteen Art Exhibitions to Catch Around New England as Winter Turns into Spring

When Workers Come A-Knockin’: Cultural Institutions and the Fight for Unionization

Unveiling "The Embrace," Boston’s Tribute to the Legacy of Coretta Scott King and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Remembering George Fifield, Founder of Boston Cyberarts

Our Favorite Art Moments of 2022

Photography Into Palimpsest: In Conversation With Toni Pepe

At the Davis Museum, Lisa Reihana Recasts Colonial Narratives Through an Indigenous Lens

B. Ingrid Olson's "History Mother, Little Sister” Invokes the Body at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

The 2022 Holiday Gift Guide

At Tufts, “The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East" Proposes New Possibilities Among Shifting Geopolitical Futures

Woven Choreographies: Inside the Movement with Bhen Alan

Radical Welcome: A Roundtable on Grantmaking as Care-Centered Work

On Publishing and Organizing: In Conversation with Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy

Artadia Announces 2022 Boston Awardees

The Boston Art Book Fair Is Making Its Return

Twelve Fall Exhibitions to Check Out in Boston and Beyond

At Distillery Gallery, Sunny Moxin Chen's "Wandering Be-ing" Presents a Meandering Journey

Artadia Announces 2022 Boston Finalists

At RISD, "Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability" Turns a Lens to Visibility and Care

Behind the Scenes of Boston Ujima’s Black Portals Party

Soyoung L. Kim's GHOST ROOTS Reimagines an Ancient Korean Dance for the Screen

Self-Emancipated: Ifé Franklin in Conversation with Chenoa Baker

The New Public Art Projects That Are Keeping Us Outdoors

Home Truths: Sheida Soleimani's Trenchant Tableaus

At MAAM, "Designing Motherhood" Delves Into the Universal yet Deeply Personal Experience of Birth

Uncharted Territories: A New Look at Landscapes

Graffiti or Street Art? The False Dichotomy

Day-trip Worthy Exhibitions to See This Summer Around New England

Face to Face: Napoleon Jones-Henderson & Chanel Thervil

Adria Arch and Jai Hart Invite Us to Join Their “Play Date” at Nearby Gallery

Searching for Home in a Fractured Fairy Tale: Raida Adon’s Strangeness

Fungal Threads: Minga Opazo’s Biodegradable Textile and Mushroom Sculptures

Event Recap: The Issue 08 Launch Party

The Prowess of Simone Leigh in Venice

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong Creates Sites for Rest and Play in Boston's Chinatown

Resistance Language: Lisa Anne Auerbach's Twenty-Five Years of Wearing Her Thoughts on Her Sleeves

Portrait of a Moment: “A Place for Me” at the ICA

Mark Your Calendars: Eight Shows to Check Out in Greater Boston This Spring

At Praise Shadows, Pandemic Ennui: All Lit Up

It’s My Infinite Indigenous Queer Love: In Conversation with Jeffrey Gibson

Connecting Histories: Glenn Kaino’s “In the Light of a Shadow” at MASS MoCA

Now + There’s Visit to New Orleans for Prospect.5 Inspires a Model for a More Collaborative Art City in Boston

Looking Back: Our Favorite Art Happenings of 2021

Choreographing the Personal: A Profile of Jessica Roseman

The 2021 Holiday Gift Guide

Communing in Isolation: Rania Matar’s Window Portraits

Wish You Were Here: Paola de la Calle’s Window Display Blends History and Blurs Borders

Boston Ujima Project's Ashe Ashe Cultural Assembly is Building a Collaborative Arts Economy

The Radical Act of Growing a Plant: Garden for Boston at the MFA

Issue 07: Rooting Launch Event Recap

In a Painterly Field: Tamara Gonzales’s "Cosmic Recess" at Providence College Galleries

Announcing the Collective Futures Fund 2021 Grantees

Roots of Revolution and Diaspora in Firelei Báez’s ICA Watershed Installation

Looking Back: A Case for Co-Dreaming at Northeastern's Gallery 360

Race, Space, and Place: Getting Hyper-Local for Juneteenth in Boston

Home is a Place Called Bella

Last Chance: Michael C. Thorpe On Quilting a Dream

Take a River Walk with the “Sound on Mystic” Audio Installation

Dislodging the Cultural Infrastructure of Indigenous Peoples' Dispossession

Arts to the Front for Boston Design Week

Sonya Clark Pulls on the Threads of History

Observation and Imagination: The Art of Evelyn Rydz

To Be a Painting: On What is Bitter and What is Sweet with Cicely Carew

Making Space for Gen Z: The Impact of Young Voices in Community Art Initiatives

Poetry, Pixels, and Posthumanism: Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s "Now That I Can Dance" at Tufts University Art Galleries

In Conversation With Kai Grant: A Champion of Roxbury

Tiny Art for Uncertain Futures: A Conversation with Eben Haines of Shelter in Place Gallery

“Wayfinding” Exhibition Expands the Critical Possibilities of Historical Maps

Yes MAAM: A Game-Changing Revamp Yields Boston's First Free Contemporary Art Museum

Words: What Are They Good For?

Face to Face With Ayana Mack: Creating Images of Power and Purpose

Subversive Celebration: Photography of Black Joy and Healing in a Summer of Reckoning

Soothsaying from the Print Crypt

Sensing Growth in the Cracks: Beatrice Modisett at Montserrat College of Art Galleries

A Dance Between Past and Present: Chantal Zakari’s “A Work in Progress”

Supporting Boston-Based Artists and Makers This Holiday Season

Fitchburg Art Museum Explores Mortality and Remembrance With “After Spiritualism”

Experimental Art Leaves the Museum and Heads for the Drive-In

As Boston Cautiously Reopens, AREA CODE Art Fair Brings Art Back to the City

The Communal Intimacy of Public Art: In Conversation with Yu-Wen Wu

Tschabalala Self Hardens the Medium

Movement Toward Another World: In Conversation With Mar Parrilla

COVID Conversations: Dee Diggs and Cierra Peters

COVID Conversations: Rachel Kay and Courtney Stock

Artists Are Essential Workers

In "Walls Turned Sideways" Forty Artists Tackle America's Criminal Justice System

At Boston Center for the Arts, "FeministFuturist" Takes to the Web

Art in the Time of COVID-19: Resources, Opportunities, and Ideas for our Community

Spacetime (x,y,z + t): Traversing Time and Space through Technology and Art

The CreateWell Fund Announces 2019-2021 Awardees

Digital Domain: In Conversation With Juan Obando

2020 Talk Series Organized by Claire Barliant, Daisy Nam, and Meg Rotzel is Announced

The Sphinx Northeast Returns to Boston With Christopher Schade's "Passing Islands"

An Exhibition on Migration Hits Home at the ICA

At Emerson Contemporary, an Immersive Installation Provides an Imagined Glimpse of our Future Earth

Stirring the Pot with Marsha Nouritza Odabashian

Remembering as a Collaborative Act: In Conversation With Katarina Burin and Farhad Mirza

Not to be Missed: The Boston Art Book Fair is Back for a Third Year

On Basketball, Community, and Race: In Conversation with Shaka Dendy

Unseen Dimensions of Public Space: Disrupting Colonial Narratives

New Movement: Boston Exhibition Looks Closely at a World in Motion

A Joy Ride with Nick Cave

Fragments of Antarctica: In Conversation with Georgie Friedman

Process, Practice, and Presence: Looking Back with Tory Fair

Street Theory Presents Eight Artists, Nine Murals, and One Highway Underpass

Pelle Cass Taught Me How To Like Sports

Weaving With the Thread of Time: In Conversation with Cecilia Vicuña

Art in Action at the BCA Mills Gallery: Maya Erdelyi on the Magic of Animation

Kapwani Kiwanga: Surveillance and the Limits of Recognition at The MIT List

Not Time, But Feeling is Presented in Suara Welitoff's "Right Now This Moment"

Poetic Response: Stephanie Woods' Art Challenges Racial Perception and Performance

Afterlife in Detroit: The Story of a Man, an Egg, and a Train Station

Taking Away the Edges: Lavaughan Jenkins at Suffolk University Gallery

LaKela Brown and Ruby Sky Stiler at Providence College Galleries

Sensuous Experiences with Art on The Margins: American Outsider Art at Tufts University

"Under a Dismal Boston Skyline ": An Era Not Forgotten

Stephanie Cardon’s Massive Installation Calls for Climate Action At the Entrance to The Prudential Center

Media_Rins Brings Post-Internet to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Inside the Second Annual Boston Art Book Fair

A Farewell Trail: The "Hemlock Hospice"

A Stage for Emergence: Fujiko Nakaya’s Installations Reveal Fog as a Sculptural Medium

Inside The Watershed: ICA Boston Sails Across the Harbor

The Dialectic Nature of Shrines at Dorchester Art Project

Estelas de María: Blind Eye of the Storm

Suara Welitoff​'s ​"The Feeling of a Feeling" at Anthony Greaney

In Conversation: Tomek Sadurski on "NAVIGATORS" and "TIDES"

"Beyond Boundaries" at Riverway Park

Somerville's Kitchen Show

Making Room: How Boston’s Emerging Artists Carve Space for Themselves

In Search of Coalescence at SMFA Tufts

Between Frontiers: In Conversation with Kylie Manning

Event Recap: ORGANIZER // ORGANIZING // ORGANIZED

Beyond Regionalism: A Decolonial Atlas at Tufts University Art Gallery

Art In a Digital Landscape: In Conversation with Judith Barry

“Code-Stitch: Resistance in Apparel” at How's Howard Gallery

Internet on View: Trevor Paglen at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

Solei's Trace at Piano Craft Gallery

In Conversation: Fort5 Talks Contraband

Culture Hustlers: Art and Business as Friends not Foes?

Influence X Design Conference Sheds Light on Design Accountability

Kristin Texeira Talks Color, Memory, and Abstraction at Topdrawer Boston

Risqué or defiant? Killers & Thrillers at Kabinett Gallery Draws a Crowd

Stephanie Todhunter at Abigail Ogilvy

In Conversation: Hannah Fallon with Lauren Pellerano Gomez

In Residence: Creighton Baxter at CASTLEDRONE

Vusumuzi Maduna and Ekua Holmes at PRX Podcast Garage

Nonbinary at Tres Gatos Jamaica Plain

Eleanor Cepko: Containment at AREA Gallery

Lines that Fade and Flutter: Proof Gallery

SanQtuary at Distillery Gallery

Accumulations of the Self