Reviews, features, interviews, and critical perspectives on art and culture across New England.
On the evening of April 14, a large water main break in Boston’s South End flooded a huge part of the neighborhood, turning parking lots and the basement galleries at […]
Hera Gallery’s “Silent Presence” exhibition opened on June 10 with limited hours. In this exhibition, which physically closed on August 1, four women artists used photography, sculptures and paintings to […]
For artists, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic presented twin problems: how to show work, and how to sell it. The former was, to a degree, out of their hands. […]
Artscope’s publisher, Kaveh Mojtabai and I had expected to be at Art Basel, for which Artscope had accepted the invitation to mount its own booth in the Magazine Sector, in […]
Midmarch Arts Press publisher Cynthia Navaretta recently passed away at 97 in New York after a remarkable career of cultural imprint during which she published numerous books championing the creative […]
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, 113 Confederate memorials have been removed as of June 2020, but as of this writing, over 1700 remain. Recent removal and destruction of […]
Just over a decade ago, with the financial collapse of 2008, the first wave of Millennial college graduates were thrown into economic uncertainty. For many, the landscape was a repudiation […]
Alnoba, a sculpture garden and leadership training organization in Kensington, New Hampshire, touches lives on many levels. Designed as a facility for non-profit leadership training, it also embraces conservation sustainability, […]
“You are more than your sexuality, your skin color, your tax bracket, your mortgage, your 501c — whatever you call it. You are your mind. Your mind is vast; it […]
The last time I saw Anton “Napi” Van Dereck, a passionate collector of paintings and white line woodblock prints from the arts colony of Provincetown, we were debating the validity […]
“Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look […]
Words and visual imagery are deeply entwined in Claudia Ruiz Gustafson’s solo exhibition, “Historias de Tierra y Mar: Stories of Land and Sea,” at the Multicultural Arts Center in East Cambridge. […]