Dear Artscope reader, Back in early 2006, I traveled to the Artscope office in Quincy, Massachusetts with Leon Nigrosh, its fine arts contributing editor, with whom I had worked at several publications in Worcester, to discuss ideas on how to position the magazine for long-term growth and success with Publisher Kaveh Mojtabai. The idea that two decades later we would still be brainstorming issue by issue was the furthest thing from any of our minds that evening. But thankfully, here ...

Like many New Englanders, I was recently reminded how bright it gets when there’s about a foot of snow everywhere. My eyelids haven’t been much help AS the light shines through and multicolored sunspots remind me that the snow is still there — and probably will be till March. And as my eyes adjusted to the soft interior light of the Newport Art Museum’s Griswold House, I again saw sunspots. But this time, they were in the form of Pamela ...

“For Which It Stands” gathers more than 70 works spanning a century of American art into a single, resonant conversation. Through painting, photography, sculpture and textiles, the exhibition traces the life of the American flag, not merely as fabric and form, but as a vessel of meaning. Across generations of artists, the flag becomes a site of inquiry, a symbol of both unity and division. Presented in honor of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the “Declaration of Independence,” ...

Up until she suffered a spinal injury that left her hospitalized, Deborah Bai-Lannon thought of herself as a fine arts landscape photographer. When it came time to rehabilitate herself through walks, the Hamilton, Massachusetts resident began making regular trips past the Harvard Polo and Equestrian Center, known locally as, “The Farm.” Eventually, she found herself doing what came naturally to her — bringing along her camera and photographing the club’s horses. “It’s a major equestrian community. The Harvard University Polo ...

Created for inclusion in the citywide “100 Years of Arshile Gorky” centennial celebration in Watertown, Massachusetts, “Redrawing Community & Connections” at the Armenian Museum of America is an exhibit highlighting the work of Armenian-American artist Arshile Gorky. Gorky, born Vostanik Manoug Adoian, is known for the birth of Abstract Expressionism in the United States. But not everyone knows that he was an Armenian artist. Immigrants who fled the genocide in Armenia settled in Watertown in the early 1900s and many ...

During her lifetime, sculptor Edmonia Lewis was a true celebrity whose work sold for thousands of dollars. Her studio was regularly visited by wealthy Americans on their Grand Tour of Europe. And yet, few Americans recognize her name today. White scholars — generally male — have controlled the narrative of art history in this country since its beginning. As a mixed-race female artist from the 1800s, Lewis’s work has been overlooked in the art history of the era. But “Edmonia ...

The current Arts Connect Juried Members Exhibition at Catamount Arts’ Fried Gallery brings together more than 70 works by as many local and regional artists. For the past 10 years, this annual event has showcased both established and emerging artists. In the winter landscape of our environment and perhaps the current chaotic political environment, the exhibition’s varied works in oils, acrylics, mixed media, sculpture and textile offer up a much-needed mental space for contemplation, reordering of priorities and expansion of ...

Pam Kainz works with a torch on acrylic painted panels as her medium. My first internal question: Is there any separation from the artist to the work itself? Fire is a dangerous medium, intangible and unpredictable. It has ideas of its own, independent of the entity manipulating it. For Kainz, the act of not knowing and not controlling is the allure. She approaches the medium with reverence, allowing patterns to emerge quickly and abandoning some of the perfectionism to which ...

Whether he’s painting a barn, a building or a landscape, it’s clear that Douglas “Doug” H. Caves Sr.’s work is rooted in his response over time to the architecture, light and multiple vistas in his native state of Massachusetts and other New England places. His awareness of art and what it can convey began very early when he was still a child. “Even as a kid,” he said, “I had an affinity for nature and art. By the time I ...

 Andy Moerlein has built a life in conversation with resistance. An internationally exhibited sculptor, his work has appeared in museums, sculpture gardens and galleries from Alaska to New York, and from Switzerland to Peru. His career spans monumental public installations, international residencies and large-scale site-specific works that demand both physical endurance and conceptual rigor. For more than three decades, Moerlein has also been an educator, gallery director, juror and advocate, shaping artistic communities alongside the artwork he creates. But biography ...

Twelve abstract oil-and-sand paintings by Nina Nielsen are now on view through March 28 at Storefront Art Projects in Watertown. Nielsen, although no newcomer to abstract art, only seriously began to make art as she neared the age of 70. For four decades, New England artists, art students and art lovers cut their teeth on contemporary abstract art at the Nielsen Gallery, a three-story brownstone at 179 Newbury Street. Nielsen has shown the likes of painters Joan Snyder, John Walker, ...

“You’re American now; that’s all that matters.” This was the response a young John Willis received from his grandfather, Nathan, when he would ask questions about their family’s history. His grandparents’escape from Eastern Europe when they were young made for memories better left untouched. It wasn’t until Willis began photographing the Oglala Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, North Dakota, in the early-1990s that he began to feel the emptiness his grandfather’s off-handed dismissal engendered. Introduced to the ...

There is an overarching belief that winters in Provincetown are quiet. Au contraire. As I enter the campus of the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) at 24 Pearl Street, people are gathering in the courtyard or mingling and eating in the welcoming Stanley Kunitz Common Room and Hudson D. Walker Gallery. The February FAWC Friday Artist Talk and Reading, presenting painter Tschabalala Self and author Paul Harding, has been greatly anticipated, and the feeling in the room is electric when ...

Sculptural ceramicist Helen Duncan divides her time between her Haverhill, Massachusetts, home and her native Ireland. She has a basement studio in Haverhill and an artist in residence studio associated with the Luan Gallery in Athlone, Ireland. She teaches art at Gloucester High School, attended Boston University and earned a Ceramics BA in Limerick, Ireland. Her website menu selections are sculpture, installations, kinetic and functional, where stated, “I explore themes of displacement, resilience and the delicate equilibrium of the natural world ...

Alex Kittle loves the 1980s. And if you don’t already, you will too after finding her table at a Boston area art market and talking to her for two seconds. “I’ve always been drawn to the visual aesthetic of ‘80s art, fashion, decor, films — It definitely relates to my love of maximalism,” she explained. “It’s also a time when a lot of women artists were starting to come more into the forefront of the culture more significantly. The ‘60s ...

There’s concept in crazy. Order in chaos. Wisdom in the bizarre. You’ll get a glimpse of this when you experience “Party Fouls,” Moe Gram’s current exhibition at the Lamont Gallery on the Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire-campus. Gram, a multidisciplinary artist from Denver, has executed these disparate ideas by using a diverse toolbox. With a bold color palette, collage, photography, juxtaposition of embellishments and found objects, she encourages the viewer to reflect on, and enrich, their lives. My advice, ...

“Land, Lines, Blood, Memory,” scheduled to be shown at Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College from March 26 through April 24, is a solo exhibition of photo-weavings by California-based Indigenous American artist Sarah Sense. The show relates a layered multi-generational timeline exploring the history of American indigenous experience across colonized generations. Curated by Dr. Sara M. Picard, Professor of Art History at RIC and coordinated with Gallery Director Dr. Victoria Gao, the show includes works from the artist’s 2024-2025 “I ...

Janet Kawada is a sculptor, fiber artist, teacher and activist who uses the power of art as a tool for community engagement. A lifetime Boston area resident, she, for 25 years, taught generations of new artists in the Fiber Department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Through sculpture and installations, Kawada explores community in all its permutations: family, students, fellow artists and urban neighbors. Kawada attended MassArt as an undergraduate and maintains strong ties to the institution. “I ...

Enamel is an alchemical dance between glass and metal. Jennifer Davis Carey is an enamel artist whose artwork is all about seeing and remembering. Seeing the patterns, seeing the unseen, seeing the small, seeing the unnoticed, seeing beyond the obvious. Can we pause and see all the details? This might include small gestures, the night sky, insects and hidden stories. The colors are vibrant, the patterns electric and the themes are current as well as ageless. She is also about ...

The creativity of Gail Gelburd is multifold, as an art historian, author, professor, curator, artist and activist. She has curated exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, taught at Hofstra University and received Rockefeller Foundation grants. She was justelected to the Council for the Arts at MIT. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and is an artist who is coming into her own with a burst. Gelburd moved from New York City to Otis, Massachusetts 35 years ago to ...

The clown has never been as innocent as we pretend. In Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” the Italian opera’s performance ends in murder and the audience becomes witness to something irretrievable. “La commedia é finita,” the comedy is finished, proclaimed by Pierrot the clown as a refusal to perform any longer. It is from this moment that Michael Costello takes the title of his current body of work, on view at HallSpace through March 28, situating a series of illustrated Pierrots unguarded ...

First, there is beauty — graceful in its singularity, unmarred and untouchable. Then comes a state of paradox: beauty that sits in a glass box, dripping with stimuli and barraged by stones. One cannot exist without the other, and more often than not, Aaron Brodeur finds himself creating within the latter. The result is “Vitamin Chlorine,” his most recent exhibition for the Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery at Worcester State University. The show’s title leads the onlooker down the right path. ...

With dim alleyways and pop-art stylized still-lifes, printmaker Armin Landeck’s architectural influence was shaped by the Americana modernism of urban cityscapes. On view now through April 26 at the Art Complex Museum (ACM) in Duxbury, Massachusetts, “Armin Landeck: Rooftops and More” is a collection of 19 prints and illustrations that trace history and remind us that where there’s a shadow, there’s always light. Landeck’s works were donated to the Art Complex Museum by the artist’s daughter, who happened to be ...

Kate Knox searches for the buildings most people have stopped seeing. Late fall. Early spring. When the leaves are down. She and her husband take the backroads. The narrow ones that curve into stands of maple and disappear. They’ve learned the signs. Old stone walls. A row of decrepit apple trees. “Those kinds of landmarks dictate which turns we take,” she said. Sometimes Knox finds what she’s looking for. The skeleton of a structure. Walls crumbling. Roof caving in. Open ...

Bring your children and grandchildren to Nesto Gallery this April and May to see how a famous children’s book artist, Tad Hills, develops his characters and plots. Artists who can help children with their emotional ups and downs in life are truly blessed and Hills is one of these gifted persons. His “Duck & Goose” books are read by children around the world. Hills’ solo exhibit at Milton Academy will provide his fans an opportunity to see how he develops ...

On a cold evening in mid-February, Beverly, Massachusetts natives and newcomers gathered in a Cabot Street gallery to celebrate several milestones in the city’s creative development: the unveiling of a new logo for the Beverly Cultural District and the opening of an exhibit featuring local artists. The logo was unveiled by Beverly Main Streets’ Executive Director Danielle Payant and Community Engagement Manager Becki Greene in The Alcove, a shared gallery at Montserrat College’s arts complex, The Bower. The logo, designed ...

Running through March 26, for the first time, Sitka Home Art Gallery is showing work by other artists alongside those by co-owner and titular artist, Sitka. The exhibit, “Four Arts,” joins local artists in craft, friendship and representation of Boston’s art scene. Sitka and his wife, Helaine Gulergun, moved to Boston from New York in 2017 and with a desire to connect and converse with Boston artists — forming meaningful connections which Sitka excitedly compared to Florentine artists and legends ...

An art focused long weekend in London is easy and can be exceptionally varied. Regular daytime direct flights from Boston to London make that arts rich city a simple jaunt. A fast digital visa and a current passport are the only requirements to make this international city as painless as a flight to Los Angeles. Our agenda was loose. We surveyed the arts schedule on ArtRabbit, a weekly schedule of galleries. We picked out “R. Crumb, There's No End to ...

Artists of Stonington, Connecticut’s Velvet Mill, home to a thriving creative community of artists, entrepreneurs and businesses, will showcase the great variety of artistic styles and practices found there in “Extending the Dialogue,” a 20-artist group show running from March 28 through April 25 at the Hygienic Gallery, 79 Bank Street, New London. “The group is excited to share their art and unique camaraderie with a wider audience in southeastern Connecticut.” “Home Land,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Putney-based ...