Reviews, features, interviews, and critical perspectives on art and culture across New England.
“Fire and Ink,” featuring Hollis Engley’s pottery and Alice Nicholson Galick’s prints, will merge with Printmakers Network of Southern New England’s 30th anniversary at the Cahoon Museum of American Art […]
A drive down Bellevue Avenue in Newport conjures up Great Gatsby vibes – stately mansions, mature trees clad in verdant foliage, an abundance of natural and human wealth that culminates […]
Guest curator Lara Pan’s exhibition, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” on view through June 15 at Jamestown Arts Center, is a thought-provoking multi-media exploration of the inevitability of mass extinctions. […]
Impressionism! Everyone’s favorite style of painting! Gorgeous, elegant women at play, sun-dappled seascapes, white fluffy clouds, exotic places and foreign people with nary a care in the world. “Frontiers of […]
Authored by Hansol Jung, and directed by SeonJae Kim, “Wild Goose Dreams,” currently playing in the Roberts Studio Theatre of the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, […]
It’s a very intelligent play, is “Jado Jehad.” And it certainly shows — especially in the character of the Pakistani grandmother, Manzoor — how powerful culture is in both protecting […]
In her solo show, “The Skies Cried as my Fathers Died,” Rhode Island artist Rachel Brask, who has a studio in East Providence, displays her paintings of rainy skyscapes that […]
Arts displacement, although a systemic, chronic problem in Greater Boston, also takes toll outside the metropolitan area, in once industrial Massachusetts cities like Worcester, Lowell, New Bedford and Salem. The […]
After visiting several exhibitions this winter, two artists’ works especially stayed with me, provocatively, after viewing them each in two different exhibits: Milo, and Anastasia Semash. Milo’s work was shown […]
Multidisciplinary artists Ashley Page and Alejandra Cuadra both say they share a brain. The metaphor rings true in their work: many of the artists’ sculptures and installations look as if […]
At the helm of exhibition programming at URI Feinstein Providence Campus Gallery, Steven Pennell presents art shows about various topics from everyday life. “Coordinator of Urban Arts and Culture,” Pannell delivers […]
American crafts are among the finest in the world. In 2004, the trustees of the Fuller Craft Museum recognized this fact and wisely decided to re-invent the museum to specialize in American crafts. Five current exhibitions at Fuller […]