Looking for a new fall destination? The recently opened Westerly Museum of American Impressionism, 79 Watch Hill Road, Westerly, Rhode Island, features 11 galleries dedicated to American Impressionist art from the 1880s to 1920s. “The collection includes works by celebrated artists such as Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent, Edmund Tarbell, Jane Peterson and Lilla Cabot Perry, alongside exceptional works by lesser-known artists whose contributions merit greater recognition.” Longtime Westerly residents Dr. Thomas and Cynthia Sculco collected the approximately 150 paintings on view over four decades. WMAI is currently open Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Fifteen previously unseen watercolor paintings by Andrew Wyeth go on view November 1 at the Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland, Maine. The works in “Along the Goose River: Andrew Wyeth’s Secret Subject” were inspired by “the opposite side of the Cushing peninsula, the Goose River — and the abandoned Hoffses House in Cushing, Maine — that offered Wyeth a more secluded landscape of dense woods, quiet clearings, and ordinary structures that would shape his artistic vision for decades.” From this setting emerged haunting forest interiors and scenes of domestic solitude that Betsy Wyeth once described as her husband’s “secret subject.” The show runs through April 19, 2026
In “Suspended Realities,” at M Fine Arts Galerie, 450 Harrison Ave. #C24, Boston, Massachusetts from November 7 through 30, painter Marc Chalmé and sculptor Beth Carter offer a dialogue between “light and form, interior stillness and mythic transformation.” The artists invite viewers to inhabit their worlds where the familiar merges with the extraordinary — “places of mystery, tenderness, and introspection — where time, memory, and imagination converge.”
“Like There’s No Tomorrow,” a multimedia presentation by French Armenian photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Astrig Agopian, is the debut exhibition of the Project Save Photograph Archive, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the global Armenian experience through photography located at 600 Pleasant St., Watertown, Massachusetts. Opening on November 13 and continuing through January 17, 2026, the exhibit focuses on the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region Armenians have inhabited for millennia and whose cultural heritage has endured centuries of upheaval.
The next FeministFuturist presentation, “M/Othering Resistance,” will be on view from November 14 through 30 at Piano Craft Gallery, 793 Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts. “‘M/Othering’ Resistance is a multifaceted experiment including video, installation, sculpture, painting, fiction, and photography” that “engages with one of humanity’s most fundamental definitions: the role of those who pass on wisdom, courage, and the capacity to resist from one generation to the next.” Participating artists are Freedom Baird, Christina Balch, Jocelyn E. Marshall, Karen Meninno, Homa Sarabi, and Artscope contributors Marjorie Kaye and Carolyn Wirth.
Artist and curator Jamaal Eversley continues bringing “Real F.R.I.E.N.D.S.” to the attention of new audiences through November 20 at the Lotvin Family Gallery at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, 90 Hayden Rowe St., Hopkinton, Massachusetts. The show “calls upon different communities to work together to find collective joy and ways to move forward in these unpredictable and sometimes unsettling times. It shows that we cannot be our best selves without working with our neighbors.” Towards this goal, a “Friendsgiving” where you can meet and break bread with the artists — while enjoying good food, amazing art and music — will be held on the evening of Friday, November 14 at 7 p.m.
“The nature of collage is to create works of art from pieces of found, formed, and collected materials” and to “comprehensively describe this work is to begin a lifelong discourse on technique and metaphor” which is what the Tammy Nguyen, Against Rational Opponents, at University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst. artists of “Pieced,” an exploration of collage curated by Jessica Burko that’s on view through January 9, 2026 at the Gallery at Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress St., Boston, Massachusetts, does. “Using shears and tape, pixels and thread, residue and stain, this exhibition is part and parcel of the vibrant, and sometimes disruptive, language of collage.”
“Little Dramas,” the next installment of B. Lynch’s Reds and The Greys that theatrically interrogates the disparity of money and power, march on through January 11, 2026, at Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University, 14 Vernon Street at Framingham Centre Common, Framingham, Massachusetts. “It is a walk-in fantasy world of revolution with violence, undercover resistance, selling out for money, compassion for others, satirical portrayals, suppression, cruelty, and fortitude,” presented using video, small and large stages, puppets and painted backdrops. “The themes of wealth and work are more relevant every day,” Lynch noted.
Build on a foundation of papers and materials collected by activist and military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, best known for his leaking of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, and botanical specimens, from the UMassAmherst archives, Tammy Nguyen’s “The Political Uses of Madness,” on view through May 8 at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst, Fine Arts Center, Presidents Drive, Amherst, encourages us to revisit a not-too dis tant past. “The timing of this compelling exhibition could not be better,” said Amanda Herman, associate director of the University Museum of Contemporary Art, who noted, Nguyen’s nine new circular paintings that serve as portals into imagined, fractured worlds, “provides an entry point to examine and learn from times of past crisis and resistance.”