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Farid
Reviews

DELIGHTFULLY OVERWHELMING

By Isabel Barbi

Alia Farid’s latest large-scale installation, “Talismans (Kupol LR 3303),” was created primarily with a material called Kupol LR 3303 which is a resin manufactured by the United Oil Projects (UOP). […]

Fortini-Wright
Features

MANIFEST DESTINY

By Sawyer Smook-Pollitt

On January 10, 1975, the newly established Nesto Gallery at Milton Academy opened its inaugural exhibition, showcasing 35 works by 1969 Milton Academy graduate William Nesto. That exhibit would set […]

Jemison
Reviews

SPACE TO REFLECT

By Lexie Gondek

The “MATRIX” is an ever-evolving exhibition space at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Launched in 1974 through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the space was […]

Valdez
Reviews

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

By Suzanne Volmer

I recently went to see artwork in the studios of Nora Valdez and Nirmal Raja in advance of their month-long solo exhibitions at Boston Sculptors Gallery. Both are mid-career artists […]

Washington
Features

THE SEARCH FOR IDENTITY

By Madeleine Lord

In 2006, the Danforth Art Museum was gifted work by sculptor Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, known for work that expressed the African American identity. The importance of her work was […]

Wood
Features

REALISM THRIVES IN LOWELL

By Carolyn Wirth

Lowell’s Whistler House Museum of Art is celebrating the 200thanniversary of its historic 1825 edifice with a comprehensive exhibition of its artists-in-residence and associated studio artists. The Artist-in-Residence program spans […]

Sellios
Features

A TICKING CLOCK

By Brian Goslow

In the dimly lit Ronald M. Ansin Gallery housing Tara Sellios’s solo exhibition at the Fitchburg Art Museum, the darkness creates a translucent view of the photographic work on display […]

Liu
Uncategorized, Welcome

WELCOME May/June 2025

By Brian Goslow

Warm greetings, Artscope readers, We, like you, have watched federal funding be cut for both public and non-profit cultural organizations, be they for the visual orperforming arts and found ourselves […]

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Artscope Online, Exhibits, Visual Arts

Paint and Poetry As Reassurance

By Isabel Barbi

Curated by artist and director Ellen Wineberg, “Paint and Poetry” is a collaborative show at Storefront Art Projects in Watertown, featuring the poems of Edison Dupree, and the […]

VERY
Capsule Previews

CAPSULE PREVIEWS: MARCH/APRIL 2025

By Brian Goslow

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 […]

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Features

THE TRAUMA ENDURED

By Claudia Fiks

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 […]

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Features

ABUNDANT LIGHT

By Linda Sutherland

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 […]