Reviews, features, interviews, and critical perspectives on art and culture across New England.
Media Majlis, the first media museum in the Arab world, is named after the traditional majlis, the Arab gathering place where information was shared and spread. Located in Doha’s Education […]
Once again, the Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) has made a brilliant virtue of its present homeless state by choosing an unorthodox and roomy site in which they can design a […]
Looking out onto the water where sailboats glide towards the Boston skyline, lies ClipArt Gallery, tucked away in the new luxury Clippership apartments and condos of East Boston. Its debut […]
An art exhibit opening! What a fun way to cheer up a rainy fall afternoon. The Nesto Gallery at Milton Academy lures its student audience with generous cheese and crackers […]
After seeing Arthur Miller’s classic drama “The Crucible” at the Central Square Theater, I was hunting in my mind for an image which would summarize and elucidate its frenetic action […]
As expected from the complex minds of Todd Bartel and Jack Massey comes “working PAPER,” an exhibition that counterpoints two visually different styles of collage art, that are the same […]
The Middle East Institute (MEI), based in Washington, D.C., launched its highly-anticipated gallery for Contemporary Middle Eastern Art on September 13. Featuring socially engaged work by seventeen artists, from Morocco […]
A variety of art from over 200 artists resides in SOWA, the South End’s art district and this sunny weekend, the artists open their doors for an excursion that the […]
Christopher Abrams’ “Lie of the Land” and Christina Zwart’s “Strength in Unity” arrive out of our collective anxiety and offer a question: how did we as an American people get […]
Art is a process, a feeling, a place where peace, hope, expression, safety, and purpose live. While kneading thick clay, melting paint into blank canvases, and drawing new shapes on […]
Relating the Sufi story’s words, “her force is in my hands”, Shahram Karimi refers not only to a mother but to his motherland. Her force inspires paintings of the artist […]
“Human Figure,” an exhibition featuring works by Jamie Bowman, Holly Curcio, Erika Hess, Lavaughan Jenkins, Jessica Liggero and Tamar Nelson, artists that use the human figure expressively, “going beyond verisimilitude […]