Whether you’ve been a longtime Artscope reader or just learned of us in the past few months, either through a shared Instagram or Facebook post or picked us up in the Magazines sector at Art Basel, welcome to our final issue of 2024. When Artscope publisher Kaveh Mojtabai, attending a recent opening reception for a Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Women Artists exhibition, learned that Lisa Goren, a Boston-based watercolorist whose works focus on her travels to the ...

I’ve arrived at the Grand Palais in Paris — one of the most beautiful buildings in the world — to attend Art Basel Paris. This is the first time I’ve ever attended such a large art fair. I am a watercolorist based in Boston, and I’ve never gone to any of the Basels. I happened to be in France because I just completed a two-week (very intensive) art residency in a tiny village at La Porte Peinte in Noyers-sur- Serein. ...

Can you believe what you see, especially when it comes to yourself? In a digital world saturated with artificially generated imagery and where the polished unreality of social media is paramount, life becomes an interminable sequence of double takes. Our perspectives of ourselves are as manicured as our presentations to others, leading to a confusion of identity as the public overruns the private. The Armenian Museum of America addresses this contradictory reality with “Filtered Identity: The Art of Tigran Tsitoghdzyan.” ...

Somerville, Massachusetts, known as an artist haven, is thankfully still home to a handful of artist workspace communities including the Brickbottom Artist Building, Joy Street Studios, Milk Row Studios, Washington Street Art Center, Central Street Studios, Mad Oyster Studios and Pearl Street. The largest and longest-running location, Vernon Street Studios, touting 100 studios smack in between Davis and Porter Squares, celebrates its 50th Anniversary of hosting Open Studios on December 7 and 8 from 12-6 p.m. at 6 and 20 ...

“The sculptures and installations, with their broad mix of materials and techniques,” featured in Rhonda Smith’s “Undiscovered Country” exhibition that has its opening reception as part of SoWa Boston’s First Friday activities on November 1, and continues through December 1 at the Kingston Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave. No. 43, Boston, Massachusetts, “represent both disappearance and appearance — experiences that are simultaneously deeply satisfying and fragile.” In the shadow of recent global warming caused events, through her art, Smith explores the ...