Visual ArtsWhat scrimshaw — and a female pirate — can tell us about 19th-century whalingOn view at Cape Cod's Cahoon Museum of American Art, this largely forgotten folk art form -- turning discarded whale bones and teeth into novel canvases -- is filled with...PlayArts & Culture05:57Oct 5, 202213 art exhibits to explore this fallThis season, museums are offering exhibits revolving around such themes as childhood, food justice and the environment.Arts & CultureSep 12, 2022Advertisement Artist Karmimadeebora McMillan's colorful landscapes are more than what meets the eyeCurrently on view at the BCA and MassArt x SoWa Gallery, McMillan's work focuses on Black material culture, and it began when her friend gifted her a caricature from the...Arts & CultureAug 30, 2022Unionized workers at MASS MoCA plan one-day strike for FridayFrustrated with the progress of contract negotiations, the workers have scheduled a strike and picket outside the museum from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m.Arts & CultureAug 16, 2022Irreverent pop culture and history join forces at the reopened Emily Dickinson MuseumThe 19th-century poet's home in Amherst has reopened after a major renovation that includes a boon of donated props from the Apple TV+ series "Dickinson."PlayArts & Culture06:49Aug 16, 2022'Beyond King Tut' invites visitors into an immersive world of the ancient EgyptiansIt's been 100 years since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. The installation at the SoWa Power Station offers an opportunity to "experience the artifacts in a whole new way," says...Arts & CultureJul 13, 2022In 'The Road to Zoe,' an artist documents her journey from miscarriage to pregnancySomerville artist Valerie Imparato explores themes of motherhood, loss and joy in her newest mixed-media exhibit that follows her story from her miscarriage in 2020 to the birth of her...Arts & CultureJul 12, 2022'Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love' explores Blackness and queerness at PEMThe exhibition celebrates the fashion designer's artistic prowess while centering his layered identities as a Black queer man who drew much of his inspiration from his upbringing in Mississippi, along...Arts & CultureJul 7, 2022In a post-Roe world, an exhibit exploring reproduction is more timely than everYears in the making, the exhibition "Designing Motherhood" at the MassArt Art Museum features 200 objects that explore the history of human reproduction, including IUDs, speculums and baby monitors.PlayArts & Culture05:10Jul 6, 2022Muralist Yenny Hernandez wants Bostonians to talk about their dreamsThe Dorchester artist transformed the Prudential Center’s glass entrance on Boylston Street into a vibrant tapestry of nature and included the phrase "Let your dreams take flight."Arts & CultureJul 1, 2022Noah Grigni brings magic and curiosity to portraits of trans kidsGrigni’s exhibit at the Boston Children’s Museum, called “Protect Trans Dreams: A Portrait Project,” depicts seven trans kids from New England.PlayArts & Culture04:14Jun 29, 2022At the Greenway, Rob 'ProBlak' Gibbs paints an ode to Boston"This mural represents the past, present and future, but it's actively getting people from those times together to speak, not just to me, but to each other," the artist says.Arts & CultureJun 23, 202211 art exhibits to heat up your summerFrom an exhibit featuring the playful fashions of designer Patrick Kelly to the final stop of the national tour of the Obama presidential portraits, visual arts writer Pamela Reynolds recommends...Arts & CultureJun 13, 2022At the ICA Watershed, found objects are poetic and politicalThe six installations that make up the exhibition "Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms" explore themes of labor and production, capitalism and consumerism, as well as the sustainability of it all.Arts & CultureMay 26, 2022At the Venice Biennale, artist Simone Leigh centers experience of Black womenLeigh is the first Black woman to be awarded the Biennale commission for the U.S. pavilion, and she made over the pavilion to reflect just that.PlayArts & Culture04:37May 13, 2022'Turner's Modern World' is an eye-popping and informative show at the MFAThis exhibition, in its last stop on a three-city tour, makes a strong case that 19th-century artist Joseph Mallord William Turner is England's greatest painter, art critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews.Arts & CultureMay 3, 2022After postponement, Philip Guston's work finally arrives at the MFAThe exhibition was scheduled to open July 2021, but in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and a rise in white supremacist activity, the show was pushed to allow the...Arts & CultureApr 28, 2022Artist Simone Leigh's work transforms the US Pavilion at the Venice BiennaleLeigh, the first Black woman to represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale, not only entices onlookers with her sculptures but subverts the physical space that holds them.Arts & CultureApr 22, 2022At Peabody Essex Museum, trees are turning blue for Earth DayAustralia-based artist Konstantin Dimopoulos’ temporary art installation, “The Blue Trees,” uses biologically-safe watercolor and a team of community volunteers to color trees an electric blue to highlight deforestation.Arts & CultureApr 22, 2022Postcard exhibit offers a candid view into the early 20th centuryA new show at the MFA explores the turn of the century mania for postcards. In 1903, that fascination kicked up into a frenzy with the Eastman Kodak Company’s creation...Arts & CultureMar 17, 2022Next Page
What scrimshaw — and a female pirate — can tell us about 19th-century whalingOn view at Cape Cod's Cahoon Museum of American Art, this largely forgotten folk art form -- turning discarded whale bones and teeth into novel canvases -- is filled with...PlayArts & Culture05:57Oct 5, 2022
13 art exhibits to explore this fallThis season, museums are offering exhibits revolving around such themes as childhood, food justice and the environment.Arts & CultureSep 12, 2022
Artist Karmimadeebora McMillan's colorful landscapes are more than what meets the eyeCurrently on view at the BCA and MassArt x SoWa Gallery, McMillan's work focuses on Black material culture, and it began when her friend gifted her a caricature from the...Arts & CultureAug 30, 2022
Unionized workers at MASS MoCA plan one-day strike for FridayFrustrated with the progress of contract negotiations, the workers have scheduled a strike and picket outside the museum from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m.Arts & CultureAug 16, 2022
Irreverent pop culture and history join forces at the reopened Emily Dickinson MuseumThe 19th-century poet's home in Amherst has reopened after a major renovation that includes a boon of donated props from the Apple TV+ series "Dickinson."PlayArts & Culture06:49Aug 16, 2022
'Beyond King Tut' invites visitors into an immersive world of the ancient EgyptiansIt's been 100 years since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. The installation at the SoWa Power Station offers an opportunity to "experience the artifacts in a whole new way," says...Arts & CultureJul 13, 2022
In 'The Road to Zoe,' an artist documents her journey from miscarriage to pregnancySomerville artist Valerie Imparato explores themes of motherhood, loss and joy in her newest mixed-media exhibit that follows her story from her miscarriage in 2020 to the birth of her...Arts & CultureJul 12, 2022
'Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love' explores Blackness and queerness at PEMThe exhibition celebrates the fashion designer's artistic prowess while centering his layered identities as a Black queer man who drew much of his inspiration from his upbringing in Mississippi, along...Arts & CultureJul 7, 2022
In a post-Roe world, an exhibit exploring reproduction is more timely than everYears in the making, the exhibition "Designing Motherhood" at the MassArt Art Museum features 200 objects that explore the history of human reproduction, including IUDs, speculums and baby monitors.PlayArts & Culture05:10Jul 6, 2022
Muralist Yenny Hernandez wants Bostonians to talk about their dreamsThe Dorchester artist transformed the Prudential Center’s glass entrance on Boylston Street into a vibrant tapestry of nature and included the phrase "Let your dreams take flight."Arts & CultureJul 1, 2022
Noah Grigni brings magic and curiosity to portraits of trans kidsGrigni’s exhibit at the Boston Children’s Museum, called “Protect Trans Dreams: A Portrait Project,” depicts seven trans kids from New England.PlayArts & Culture04:14Jun 29, 2022
At the Greenway, Rob 'ProBlak' Gibbs paints an ode to Boston"This mural represents the past, present and future, but it's actively getting people from those times together to speak, not just to me, but to each other," the artist says.Arts & CultureJun 23, 2022
11 art exhibits to heat up your summerFrom an exhibit featuring the playful fashions of designer Patrick Kelly to the final stop of the national tour of the Obama presidential portraits, visual arts writer Pamela Reynolds recommends...Arts & CultureJun 13, 2022
At the ICA Watershed, found objects are poetic and politicalThe six installations that make up the exhibition "Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms" explore themes of labor and production, capitalism and consumerism, as well as the sustainability of it all.Arts & CultureMay 26, 2022
At the Venice Biennale, artist Simone Leigh centers experience of Black womenLeigh is the first Black woman to be awarded the Biennale commission for the U.S. pavilion, and she made over the pavilion to reflect just that.PlayArts & Culture04:37May 13, 2022
'Turner's Modern World' is an eye-popping and informative show at the MFAThis exhibition, in its last stop on a three-city tour, makes a strong case that 19th-century artist Joseph Mallord William Turner is England's greatest painter, art critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews.Arts & CultureMay 3, 2022
After postponement, Philip Guston's work finally arrives at the MFAThe exhibition was scheduled to open July 2021, but in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and a rise in white supremacist activity, the show was pushed to allow the...Arts & CultureApr 28, 2022
Artist Simone Leigh's work transforms the US Pavilion at the Venice BiennaleLeigh, the first Black woman to represent the U.S. at the Venice Biennale, not only entices onlookers with her sculptures but subverts the physical space that holds them.Arts & CultureApr 22, 2022
At Peabody Essex Museum, trees are turning blue for Earth DayAustralia-based artist Konstantin Dimopoulos’ temporary art installation, “The Blue Trees,” uses biologically-safe watercolor and a team of community volunteers to color trees an electric blue to highlight deforestation.Arts & CultureApr 22, 2022
Postcard exhibit offers a candid view into the early 20th centuryA new show at the MFA explores the turn of the century mania for postcards. In 1903, that fascination kicked up into a frenzy with the Eastman Kodak Company’s creation...Arts & CultureMar 17, 2022
