March/April 2025
Interactive Edition
In This Issue
WELCOME March/April 2025
Dear Artscope reader, Since 2006, we’ve been honored to bring the stories of the arts community of New England and beyond to you, always believing the best contribution that we […]
THE STORY ON THE WALLS
Before I went to see “The Art of French Wallpaper Design,” on view at the RISD Museum through May 11, I thought the exhibition might be stuffy, but quite the […]
THE SPIRIT OF LIGHT AT THE HOOD
Kudos to the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire for mounting the first major solo museum exhibition by a notable Indigenous artist. The exhibition, “Cara […]
INTO THE LUMINOUS DEPTHS
From the moment you step inside the second-floor gallery of the New Bedford Whaling Museum hosting “Community BLOOMS: Katy Rodden Walker,” you are submerged into a mysterious underwater world. This […]
A CLIMATE CRISIS REFRAMED
“Crisis” is a powerful word, and whoever paired it with “climate” knew precisely what they were doing. For many young Americans, including myself, the term conjures up images of burning […]
HER CANVAS, HER VISION
I recently had the pleasure of visiting the New Britain Museum of American Art (NBMAA), located just 12 miles from Hartford, Connecticut. The “Modern Women: Visionary Artists” exhibit is a […]
PHOENIX RISING AT NESTO
The African American Master Artists in Residence Program at Northeastern University (AAMARP) has been a dynamic and unique nexus for artists of the African diaspora for 50 years, according to its […]
INNERSTATES THROUGH LIFE AND LOSS
As your wheels turn down the bumpy roads of a small town, seemingly uninhabited except for collapsing billboards and flickering neon signs, it can be hard to remember that people […]
WAINWRIGHT’S PATCHWORK POLITICS
Clara Wainwright’s new exhibition at the Paul Dietrich Gallery at Cambridge Seven, “GLORY: A Satirical Retrospective of Fabric Collages,” is a kind of hallucinatory storyboard of a trip through Wainwright’s […]
KNICK-KNACKS COME TO LIFE
Running through March 30 in the Kingston Gallery’s Main Gallery, Nat Martin’s “Over Days” exhibition invites the viewer to play a game of iSpy with new sculptures, prints and some […]
BEATTY’S MELODIC WOODCRAFT
When the original Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery at the College of the Holy Cross, formerly in O’Kane Hall, was dedicated in 1983 Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J. president […]
A MASSIVE REUNION
How do you begin to engage with an exhibition of someone whose work you’ve followed for nearly 40 years, a period during which he documented many of your friends and, […]
A SCULPTURAL DIALOGUE
Norad Mill in North Adams, Massachusetts is home to an assortment of quirky and highly visible businesses. It retains its vintage mill appearance while adding contemporary features, making it a […]
RITUALS OF EARTH AND CHANGE
Edd Ravn is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans growing bacteria, painting with rainwater, recording soundscapes and designing public furniture to co-create objects that question perception and connection. With a […]
MASTERS OLD AND NEW
There are always good reasons to visit the Art Complex Museum at Duxbury and the annual “Duxbury Art Association 52nd Winter Juried Show,” which continues through April 19, is one […]
A FIRST LOOK
What makes a photograph special? That it provides a clear, static documentation of notable events worth cataloguing; for its artistic merit which, like a lightning-rod, can conduct particular feelings less […]
SHEPHERDING THE SHOW ALONG
On Monday, February 3, curator and artist David Walega arrived at New Bedford’s Gallery X around noon. The walls were bare inside the 1855 Universalist Church-turned-art gallery. Paintings, sculptures and […]
ARTISTIC VISION AND CONTEMPORARY DIALOGUES
The Cambridge Art Association’s 2025 Members Prize Show once again offers a compelling showcase of artistic talent from its vibrant community. Open to all current members, the exhibition spans two […]
NEVER SLOWING DOWN
On one of the coldest days in February, even by Vermont standards, I stepped inside the Burlington City Arts gallery to find my senses stirred by the dramatic, enigmatic and […]
ABUNDANT LIGHT
In all my years, I’ve never seen color used this way. Peter Batchelder is all about putting color where it shouldn’t be. The outcome is breathtaking and certainly not something […]
THE TRAUMA ENDURED
Bayda Asbridge’s “Children of War,” on view at Babson College’s Hollister Gallery from March 27 through May 18, is an emotionally moving and profoundly thought-provoking exhibition that sheds light on […]
CAPSULE PREVIEWS: MARCH/APRIL 2025
If you’re stopping by the SoWa Art + Design District, either for March’s First Friday openings or Sunday’s SoWa Artist Guild Open Studios, make sure to check out three new […]
