2026, anyone? At the start of October, Elizabeth Michelman proposed reviewing the “Unspoken Resilience: Healing from the Lewiston Shooting Two Years In: Work by Artists of the Maine & National Deaf communities and Photographs by Michael Kolster” exhibition at the University of New England Art Gallery in Portland, Maine. It was a show that she noted, “has stuck in my mind for the feat of representing three different takes on the 2023 massacre of 18 people, including the shooter, in ...

Canterbury, New Hampshire sculptor Carol Lake has just returned from the annual Animal Art Fair in Paris, a juried international exhibition of animal artists in all mediums, where she was the only American out of the 60 in attendance. Lake’s sculptural practice is rooted in over 45 years of hands-on experience in farming and the equine industry, where she developed an intimate understanding of animal anatomy, movement and spirit. As a farmer, she spent decades reading the subtle language of ...

“Unspoken Resilience,” a multi-disciplinary exhibition on view at the University of New England (UNE) Gallery in Portland through February 7, assembles works of the Deaf community and its friends in the aftermath of a horrific 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. One-fifth of the shooting victims belonged to the Deaf community. This exhibition expresses its need to mourn, to console and to demand changes in the treatment of a population with recognizably distinct interpretive needs. The show assumes an audience ...

The current exhibition at Burlington City Arts (BCA) addresses that universal human emotion — grieving, after experiencing loss of the irreplaceable love that centered one’s life. The day I viewed the show, I was still processing the loss of a very dear friend who had died the previous day and with whom I often discussed the general community malaise that has so filtered down to every aspect of our lives. Both of us lived long enough to have felt the ...

A welcome response to the winter blues, Blue Door Gallery owner and curator Janice Santini is presenting “Euphony,” an exhibition of collage art by Connecticut artist R. Douglass Rice that opens with a reception on January 24. “It’s a musical term where different notes combine to make something pleasing to the ear, the opposite of cacophony,” said Rice, explaining the show’s title. “Collage is an art form which combines shapes to make something pleasing to the eye and provoke thought.” ...

King Richard the Lionheart! King Arthur! Shogun Toranaga! Genghis Khan! Sunjata Keita from Mali! Joan of Arc! All fighting battles, conquering tribes, marching to Crusades! They all wore armor to protect themselves from death or mutilation. The exciting new galleries at the Worcester Art Museum display many examples of armor made from 2000 BCE until the widespread use of guns and cannon. But it is the armor of the western Middle Ages (approximately 500 to 1500,) a period now romanticized ...

“While thus employed, the heavy pewter lamp suspended in chains over his (Ahab's) head, continually rocked with the motion of the ship, and for ever threw shifting gleams and shadows of the lines upon his wrinkled brow, till it almost seemed that while he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead … For with the charts of all four ...

When photographer Ricardo Barros arrived in Fitchburg, Massachusetts in June 2023 after living in the Princeton, New Jersey area for 43 years, one of the first things that he noticed was how many unique individuals strived to help and empower others in the community and how much of its architectural history remains from the industrial era. The images featured in “Ricardo Barros: Off the Hill: Portraits from the Fitchburg Community,” on view through March 31 at the Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio ...

In a nod to the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Focus on the Past exhibition at the Attleboro Arts Museum will include eight artifacts from the museum vault that relate to U.S. History or were created by iconic United States artists or represent a slice of America’s past. The 77 artists who responded to this call were invited because they were juried into one or more “8 Visions” exhibition(s) since 2006. According to Executive Director ...

For an artist, creating the work requires one set of skills, promoting the work and getting it seen and appreciated is a whole different skill set. TAG | The Art Gallery, which shares a space with the New England Art Center(NEAC), is located at 460 Harrison Avenue in what’s widely known as either SoWa Boston or the SoWa Art and Design District, and was founded in the summer of 2024. Claudia Fiks is the brains behind it all. She is ...

Visit hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu for full exhibition schedule In 2026, the United States of America will turn 250 years old, but according to the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, the story of American Art in the United States goes back millennia. “It was very important for us to think about the United States as part of the history of the art of this continent,” said Hood Museum Director John R. Stomberg. “There were already people here [for] upwards of 10,000 ...

“Carrie Crane: The Lise Hoffman Archive (a fiction)”, on view at the Boston Sculptors Gallery through January 25, animates Lise Walker Hoffman (1934-2019), a fictional young woman of Crane’s imagination. Acting as her alias, a conduit of sorts, Crane experiments with sculpture, construction, prose, mixed-media and technology. What is presented is a robust background of Lise Hoffman’s “life” from her early adolescence into her 70s through a collection of found objects, journals and letters, contributions and accolades, and scientific and ...

There is a particular stillness that lives inside abandoned places. A silence that feels almost sentient as it hums with the memory of footsteps, the echo of machinery and the soft reclaiming breath of nature. It hangs in the air like dust, visible only when the light strikes it just right across the buckling floors while it settles into peeling paint and collapsing beams. Photographer Robb Kurkjian, who uses they/them pronouns, seeks out that presence with purpose and care, revealing ...

When you hear the name Hans Hofmann, you might first think of a teacher — an artist best known for shaping generations of minds. Yet Hofmann’s own work resists easy categorization, and deliberately so.He once claimed that to settle into a single style was to be “dead” as an artist. Restlessness, for Hofmann, was not uncertainty but necessity. Even while immersed in academia, Hofmann believed that making art was itself an act of composition. Rather than beginning with subject matter ...

Behind imposing glass doors, just beyond the Currier Museum of Art’s antechamber, one is confronted with the culmination of a career. Eight large paintings of oil on canvas by the audacious painter Wendy Edwards hang as the first works museumgoers will see this winter and spring, less a primer of what lies ahead in the near-century old museum’s other galleries, than a reminder that challenging work is still being made, and that the work continues to evolve as the artist ...

There are artists whose work you admire, and then there are artists whose work you feel. Donald Langosy belongs firmly in both categories. Encountering his work is not a passive experience; it is something that happens slowly, internally and with lasting effect. His art asks us to pause, to stay present and to allow meaning to emerge rather than be delivered. In a world conditioned for speed and instant clarity, this invitation alone feels radical. Langosy’s practice carries a quiet ...

We are lucky to have an oral history video produced in 2013 by the Martha’s Vineyard Museum (MVM) of the late Nan Tull,85, who passed on July 4, 2023, discussing her shell studies produced over two years of beach combing all sides of the island. In the video, Tull talks about admiring what is on those beaches. The artist’s version of what she saw is a translation of nature’s creations which she captured in both graphite and watercolor and labeled ...

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 was a blast. Miami was buzzing, but whenever someone asked me, “How was Miami?” I could only answer, “How was the Convention Center?” Because when you work as a guided tour educator at Art Basel, your entire world contracts into those walls, those crowds, those artworks and the choreography of a fair that never stops. Uber prices were sky-high, traffic was impossible and despite more than 20 satellite fairs spread across the city, it was ...

Drawing inspiration from music, dancers, color, and the quiet moments that define movement, “Conversation in Movement,” which opens January 3 and continues through the end of the month at the Loading Dock Gallery, 122 Western Ave., Lowell, Massachusetts, “delves into the poetic relationship between dance and visual art. Inspired by the unspoken language created when gesture, color, and form meet, the exhibition invites visitors to experience an emotional and sensory exchange unfolding across the space.” Participating artists Nino Gordeladze, Dina ...