Issue 17 (Pre Order)
Fall/Winter 2026
$21.00
Fall/Winter 2026
We invite you to celebrate with us on Friday, November 13, when Boston Art Review will host the Preview Party for the Boston Art Book Fair inside the BCA's iconic cyclorama. All tickets include a copy of Issue 17. Print subscribers and members of the BAR Giving Circle will receive discount codes for party tickets.
Pre-order copies will start shipping on November 17.
With contributions by:
Dalia Al-Dujaili
Jorge S. Arango
Mary Bergman
Marcus Civin
Melaine Ferdinand-King
Cristela Guerra
Carmen Hermo
Cierra Michele Peters
Copenger (Miguel Caba, An Hà, Vivian Tran)
Angela T. Tate
Alex Valenti
Juchen Zhang
Featuring:
Sascha Braunig
María Magdalena Campos-Pons
Coop Social Club
Anthony Discenza
Double Edge Theatre
The Heavy Culture Cooperative
Arnold J. Kemp
Robert Lazzarini
Daniela Rivera
Kiyan Williams
... and more
Reviews:
“Ocean Vuong / MATRIX 199 / I’m Sorry I Love You” at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Defense Language by Claire Beckett, published by GOST Books
“Jenna Gribbon: Entwined” at the Rose Art Museum
“Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love” at the MFA Boston
“Faith Ringgold’s America” at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Cover: Portrait of Arnold J. Kemp, 2026. Photo by Kevin White for Boston Art Review.
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In this Issue
Title
Author
Category
Link
From the Editor
Jameson Johnson
Letter
A Modernist Monument to the Massachusetts Welfare State Hangs in Limbo
Kim Córdova
Feature
Figurative Fictions: In Conversation with Sascha Braunig
Jorge S. Arango
Interview
Daniela Rivera's Tilted Paradigms
Jessica Shearer
Profile
There's No Rehearsal: In Conversation with Arnold J. Kemp
Cierra Michele Peters
Interview
Teaching Art on an Island Out of Time
Mary Bergman
Feature
María Magdalena Campos-Pons Looks Back on Boston
Carmen Hermo
Interview
Objects of Questionable Authority: In Conversation with Robert Lazzarini
Jameson Johnson
Interview
some notes
Copenger (Miguel Caba, An Hà, Vivian Tran)
Artist Project
Below Paper City: In Conversation with Anthony Discenza
Alex Valenti
Interview
Kiyan Williams and the Weight of History
Morgan Ridgway
Interview: Un-monuments
When the Margins Become the Map
Angela T. Tate
Feature: Un-monuments
A Tale of Two Murals: Tracing Chinatown's Spatial Negotiation
Juchen Zhang
Feature: Un-monuments
Parades Over Plinths: What Can Gatherings Commemorate that Monuments Can't?
Cristela Guerra
Feature: Un-monuments
Making Spaces, Sharing Power
Camila Bohan Insaurralde
Community Voices
"Ocean Vuong / MATRIX 199 / I'm Sorry I Love You" at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Ramona Ngin
Review
Defense Language by Claire Beckett, Published by GOST Books
Dalia Al-Dujaili
Review
"Jenna Gribbon: Entwined" at the Rose Art Museum
Marcus Civin
Review
"Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love" at the MFA Boston
Melaine Ferdinand-King
Review
"Faith Ringgold's America" at the Mount Holyoke College Museum of Art
Alisa Prince
Review
