Visual Arts

A visitor to the Venice Biennale photographs Simone Leigh's sculpture entitled "Jug." Leigh has been awarded a Golden Lion at the 59th International Art Exhibition. (Giuseppe Cottini/Getty Images)

At the Venice Biennale, artist Simone Leigh centers experience of Black women

Leigh 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.

'Turner's Modern World' is an eye-popping and informative show at the MFA

This 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.

After postponement, Philip Guston's work finally arrives at the MFA

The 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...

Artist Simone Leigh's work transforms the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Leigh, 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.

At Peabody Essex Museum, trees are turning blue for Earth Day

Australia-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.

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At the Venice Biennale, artist Simone Leigh centers experience of Black women

'Turner's Modern World' is an eye-popping and informative show at the MFA

After postponement, Philip Guston's work finally arrives at the MFA

Artist Simone Leigh's work transforms the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

At Peabody Essex Museum, trees are turning blue for Earth Day

Postcard exhibit offers a candid view into the early 20th century

12 art exhibits worth catching this spring

Special exhibit 'Immersive Shevchenko' opens in Boston, offering window into 'the Ukrainian soul'

Everything old is new again in the MFA’s transformed art galleries of Ancient Greece, Rome and the Byzantine Empire

Critic Hilton Als invites us to see the Gardner Museum through his eyes

How Vermont's 'snowflake man' created the first-ever images of fleeting snow crystals

Fashion icon Iris Apfel's surprising connection to Salem

At the ICA, a Boston artist illustrates the vibrancy of Black culture

MFA returns two looted terracotta objects to Mali

At the Rose Art Museum, painter Barkley L. Hendricks' rarely seen photographs are on display

MFA returns painting stolen from Jewish collector during WWII

Harriet Powers' quilts leave a complicated legacy for her descendent

13 art exhibits to brighten up the darkness of winter

The original immersive Van Gogh exhibit opens in Boston

Reflecting on our favorite arts and culture moments of 2021