Welcome to our September/October 2025 issue, one that finds many of us trying to avoid isolation during growingly troubling times where the art and cultural togetherness we’ve worked to nourish and support  seems challenged more than at any other time in our lives. We’ve always found art to be one of our major common denominators and you can’t put a price on the value of interaction at openings or browsing through an exhibition. This time of year is especially supportive ...

Jung Yeondoo hardly needs to ask the question that hangs over his 2001 series of photographs“Evergreen Tower” like the casted rays of sun off a high-rise apartment building, yet he still dares to ask viewers, “What is your dream?” The question lingers as you peer into the lives of families in Seoul, South Korea, all connected under a shared roof but with dreams that differ from those of their next-door neighbors. Curators Stephanie Hueon Tung and Jiyeon Kim paired this ...

“Love and Practice,” the current exhibition at Catamount Arts’ Fried Family Gallery, offers the visitor more than it may have intended to do. It includes paired paintings and sculptures with the artists’ smock/shirt/pants and other apparel worn during their time in artistic pursuit. All eight artists are also staff at the Vermont Studio Center in nearby Johnson so in addition to studio time, they also serve to fulfill the daily tasks that keep that organization running. The gallery’s introductory notes ...

An exhibition by highly accomplished artists about creepy crawlers? Surely you jest! Not so fast folks. If you allow yourself just a bit of being open to that which you usually shut down about, magical things can happen. When I first pitched this show to my editor, I felt excited about it. Because it’s quirky, it’s courageously creative and surely it was a professional challenge for the artists. I’ve experienced with artists that when they stretch themselves to do that ...

What, exactly, is Magic Realism, and what does it have to do with Vermont? The Bennington Museum’s “Green Mountain Magic: Uncanny Realism in Vermont” presents answers in a thoughtful, wide-ranging and well-curated exhibition. The exhibit articulates magic realism as a movement originated by art historian Alfred H. Barr. Barr, as the first director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), curated the 1943 exhibition “American Realists and Magic Realists.” He defined “magic realism” as “the work of painters who by ...

[caption id="attachment_1014182" align="alignnone" width="295"] Ellen Schön, Dancing Woman, 2025, 3D printed stoneware, 14 ½” x 9 ½” x 9 ½”.[/caption] Through early fall, the Boston Sculptors Gallery presents two compelling solo exhibitions exploring the boundaries of material, form and imagination. Wen-hao Tien’s “Flight Lessons” invites viewers into a poetic world of hand-formed clay pieces, trapeze-like swings and dynamic sculptures that meditate on freedom, resilience and the urge to push beyond boundaries. Simultaneously, Ellen Schön’s “Loftings” offers a striking investigation of ...

Archy LaSalle is a Boston-based photographer and educator. In an interview published by the Houston Center for Photography, he explained the origin of WHERE ARE ALL THE BLACK PEOPLE AT: IN PLAIN SIGHT, a grassroots organization that includes writers, artists and activists that was launched to address the lack of Black and brown artists in museum permanent collections. Dedicated to his work hunting images that investigate form, LaSalle is also a long-time dedicated teacher. “I was the first non-white art ...

“I served as a medic during the Vietnam War. At the 22nd Casualty Staging Flight in Da Nang, I worked on well over 600 battle casualties. The mission was to stabilize the wounded and keep them alive for 24 hours so that they could be flown out of the country to a hospital where their limbs or lives might be saved via surgical intervention. Nowadays, when people think about surgery, they think of a doctor opening a section of the ...

Tucked into the heart of its community, the stunning Greenwich Library is home to more than just books. On the second floor, you’ll find the Flinn Gallery, a vibrant, non-profit exhibition space with a strong focus on education and community engagement. Run by a dedicated committee of over 40 volunteers, the gallery presents a dynamic lineup of five to six contemporary art exhibitions each season, from September through June. The Flinn Gallery also offers engaging opening receptions, artist talks and ...

It’s rare that I find work that reminds me of why I take joy in being alive. Provincetown based artist Donald Beal does that, and hopefully as the honoree artist at Provincetown Art Association and Museum Annual Gala, and a show at Berta Walker Gallery, he will gain more of the recognition that he deserves. About a dozen works to be determined will appear at PAAM and some 14 at Walker’s. With delicious light and colors which leap off the ...

It’s simple, really. When you’re in a gallery, don’t touch the art. I worked at an art museum for a few years and I spent a lot of time keeping visitors from poking at canvases, smudging plexiglass, tripping on sculptures and sitting on things clearly labeled “DO NOT SIT.” Yet when I walked into the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts to cover “New England Mosaic Society: Ten Years on the Cutting Edge,” I forgot all about my years of ...

Upon entering the expansive first floor galleries that house the Vincent Valdez exhibition at North Adams’ MASS MoCA, one is immediately drawn to an enormous, wall sized panoramic painting of Ku Klux Klan members assembled on a murky night. Upon approaching “The City,” part of his “The Beginning is Near (An American Trilogy),” one becomes absorbed in this painting, even passing the explanatory text on the wall, which becomes incidental in the wake of the initial jolting and arresting view ...

A personal photograph is as opaque as it is revealing. Suppose you find an old image at an antique market or abandoned with books and coffee mugs in a box on the street: you sympathize with the subjects but have no way of comprehending their dreams and regrets, the bitterness or ease of their relationships, whether their smiles are true or masked. Even if it were a photo yourself, the distance between then and now could end up feeling like ...

At a time where artificial intelligence (AI) threatened to take over the words we read and images we see, institutions like The Guild of Boston Artists are needed more than ever to show us what has been, what is happening now and hopefully, preserve pure human interpretation of the world in which we live. The Guild’s current show, its annual “New England Regional Juried Exhibition,” that runs through September 27, received the largest number of submissions in the organization’s history, ...

How refreshing to meet a sculptor with a sense of humor that shines through his artwork like a beacon. Wood working is his specialty, but he is a man of many trades and skills. Jared Hadfield will have a solo exhibition of his sculpture and functional art at the South Shore Art Center from September 12 to October 25. Hadfield’s sculpture follows in the tradition of two towering American artists, Claes Oldenburg and Louise Nevelson. Like Oldenburg, he creates icons ...

Hannah Perrine Mode’s “Remote Sensing,” on display at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360, combines Mode’s educational work in geoscience and climate research with her impassioned multi-media art. Through the solo exhibition featuring cyanotype prints, collections of field notes and installations of rope and found objects, the urban Boston audience is familiarized with glaciers, primarily the alpine glaciers of Alaska, and their role in the environment. The exhibition includes an interactive element where visitors can listen to the recorded sounds of glaciers ...

Have you ever wanted to learn a new or different creative skill? Do you already have skills requiring tools/equipment you don’t have? Looking to join a community of do-it-yourself makers? Want to learn woodworking, photography, screen printing, jewelry making, fabrication, sewing/embroidery, metal working, laser cutting or 3D printing? Consider joining one of many maker spaces across Massachusetts — or try out a bunch! Most maker spaces offer a monthly membership with various flexibility and access at different price points. Most ...

I am excited, and everyone else should be too — Boston has attracted a new International Art Fair. After 25 years of vibrant shows, the Boston International Fine Art Fair, has been on hiatus since the passing of co-founder Tony Fusco in 2024. The good news is that this year the Affordable Art Fair has added Boston to their roster of 16 other cities worldwide. Affordable is a robust and meticulous organization that does its homework. After 18 months of ...

Drawing from a series of works addressing ideas of impossible architecture, liminal spaces and temporal and spatial distance, “The Long View: Paintings by Marcia Santore” will be on view from September 2 through 30 at the Belknap Mill Museum Riverside Gallery, 25 Beacon Street East, Laconia, New Hampshire. “As someone who has moved many times, both as a child and as an adult, houses seen from within and without, rooms and hallways, doors and windows, and the roads and landscapes ...