Visual Arts 3 artists win Boston ICA's James and Audrey Foster Prize This year's James and Audrey Foster Prize recipients are Cicely Carew, Venetia Dale, and Yu-Wen Wu. Their work, exploring themes of time and transformation, will be on display at the... Arts & Culture Mar 29, 2023 Nepali artist Imagine reflects on her work joining the MFA's collection In February, the museum acquired the painting “Home416” -- the first by a contemporary Nepali artist to be included in the MFA's collection. The artist shares her reflections on this... Arts & Culture Mar 27, 2023 Advertisement DJ Jace Clayton needs songs from your cellphone for his sound installation at MAAM "Everyone has this world of sound at their fingertips," Clayton said. "And so what if we can turn something which is ordinarily private -- your own personal playlist -- into... Play Arts & Culture 05:41 Mar 7, 2023 Pottery exhibit at the MFA spins a tale of artistry despite the odds “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield South Carolina" is an introduction to Edgefield pottery and an often-overlooked aspect of the American slavery system. Arts & Culture Mar 1, 2023 Outsider art is in at the new Shoe Bones gallery in Salem Shoe Bones will open its doors at 28 Boston St. in Salem on Feb. 11 with the goal of providing a space for outsider, queer and nontraditional artists to showcase... Arts & Culture Feb 10, 2023 New Bob Dylan photo exhibit provides a candid look into a critical point in the artist's career “Don’t Think Twice: The Daniel Kramer Photographs of Bob Dylan, 1964-65” will be on view at the Boch Center Wang Theatre through March 29. Arts & Culture Jan 23, 2023 Peabody Essex Museum returns a trove of Salem Witch Trials records to Mass. SJC Hand-written complaints, death warrants and depositions are among 527 documents that have been under the Peabody Essex Museum's care since 1980. Now, the time-worn papers will be housed and preserved... Arts & Culture Jan 12, 2023 12 art exhibits to explore this winter The shows present a sense of interrelatedness, and while the work may come from different corners of the world, much of it expresses human vitality, how we grow and change. Arts & Culture Jan 9, 2023 Local artist stages demonstration inspired by protesters in China To subtly express dissent over China's "zero-COVID" policy, protesters have been holding up blank pieces of paper. Their ingenuity inspired artist Yolanda He Yang. Play Arts & Culture 02:29 Dec 13, 2022 New biography wrestles with Isabella Stewart Gardner's contradicting complexities Diana Seave Greenwald and Nathaniel Silver, two curators at the the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, have a new biography out about the woman who "by design, made herself a mystery.” Arts & Culture Nov 28, 2022 MFA's new Conservation Center gives visitors a behind the scenes look at museum work The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is opening a new Conservation Center where visitors will have the opportunity to learn more about the conservation process. Arts & Culture Nov 10, 2022 Fuller Craft explores food insecurity through art in new exhibit In a vast array of media -- including ceramics, paper sculpture, metalwork and live plants -- 15 artists in 19 works explore divergent aspects of our food conundrum, and in... Arts & Culture Nov 10, 2022 At the MFA, abstract painter Frank Bowling finally gets his due In “Frank Bowling’s Americas,” running Oct. 22-April 9, American art fans can finally revel in work created by the artist during his seminal years in New York between 1966 and... Arts & Culture Oct 18, 2022 Gold at the Gardner: Paintings 700 years apart have some things in common The exhibition “Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art” confirms that “art is art, no matter what the period, and the juxtaposition of old and new creates... Arts & Culture Oct 12, 2022 What scrimshaw — and a female pirate — can tell us about 19th-century whaling On view at Cape Cod's Cahoon Museum of American Art, this largely forgotten folk art form -- turning discarded whale bones and teeth into novel canvases -- is filled with... Play Arts & Culture 05:57 Oct 5, 2022 13 art exhibits to explore this fall This season, museums are offering exhibits revolving around such themes as childhood, food justice and the environment. Arts & Culture Sep 12, 2022 Artist Karmimadeebora McMillan's colorful landscapes are more than what meets the eye Currently on view at the BCA and MassArt x SoWa Gallery, McMillan's work focuses on Black material culture, and it began when her friend gifted her a caricature from the... Arts & Culture Aug 30, 2022 Unionized workers at MASS MoCA plan one-day strike for Friday Frustrated with the progress of contract negotiations, the workers have scheduled a strike and picket outside the museum from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Arts & Culture Aug 16, 2022 Irreverent pop culture and history join forces at the reopened Emily Dickinson Museum The 19th-century poet's home in Amherst has reopened after a major renovation that includes a boon of donated props from the Apple TV+ series "Dickinson." Play Arts & Culture 06:49 Aug 16, 2022 'Beyond King Tut' invites visitors into an immersive world of the ancient Egyptians It's been 100 years since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. The installation at the SoWa Power Station offers an opportunity to "experience the artifacts in a whole new way," says... Arts & Culture Jul 13, 2022 Next Page
3 artists win Boston ICA's James and Audrey Foster Prize This year's James and Audrey Foster Prize recipients are Cicely Carew, Venetia Dale, and Yu-Wen Wu. Their work, exploring themes of time and transformation, will be on display at the... Arts & Culture Mar 29, 2023
Nepali artist Imagine reflects on her work joining the MFA's collection In February, the museum acquired the painting “Home416” -- the first by a contemporary Nepali artist to be included in the MFA's collection. The artist shares her reflections on this... Arts & Culture Mar 27, 2023
DJ Jace Clayton needs songs from your cellphone for his sound installation at MAAM "Everyone has this world of sound at their fingertips," Clayton said. "And so what if we can turn something which is ordinarily private -- your own personal playlist -- into... Play Arts & Culture 05:41 Mar 7, 2023
Pottery exhibit at the MFA spins a tale of artistry despite the odds “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield South Carolina" is an introduction to Edgefield pottery and an often-overlooked aspect of the American slavery system. Arts & Culture Mar 1, 2023
Outsider art is in at the new Shoe Bones gallery in Salem Shoe Bones will open its doors at 28 Boston St. in Salem on Feb. 11 with the goal of providing a space for outsider, queer and nontraditional artists to showcase... Arts & Culture Feb 10, 2023
New Bob Dylan photo exhibit provides a candid look into a critical point in the artist's career “Don’t Think Twice: The Daniel Kramer Photographs of Bob Dylan, 1964-65” will be on view at the Boch Center Wang Theatre through March 29. Arts & Culture Jan 23, 2023
Peabody Essex Museum returns a trove of Salem Witch Trials records to Mass. SJC Hand-written complaints, death warrants and depositions are among 527 documents that have been under the Peabody Essex Museum's care since 1980. Now, the time-worn papers will be housed and preserved... Arts & Culture Jan 12, 2023
12 art exhibits to explore this winter The shows present a sense of interrelatedness, and while the work may come from different corners of the world, much of it expresses human vitality, how we grow and change. Arts & Culture Jan 9, 2023
Local artist stages demonstration inspired by protesters in China To subtly express dissent over China's "zero-COVID" policy, protesters have been holding up blank pieces of paper. Their ingenuity inspired artist Yolanda He Yang. Play Arts & Culture 02:29 Dec 13, 2022
New biography wrestles with Isabella Stewart Gardner's contradicting complexities Diana Seave Greenwald and Nathaniel Silver, two curators at the the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum, have a new biography out about the woman who "by design, made herself a mystery.” Arts & Culture Nov 28, 2022
MFA's new Conservation Center gives visitors a behind the scenes look at museum work The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is opening a new Conservation Center where visitors will have the opportunity to learn more about the conservation process. Arts & Culture Nov 10, 2022
Fuller Craft explores food insecurity through art in new exhibit In a vast array of media -- including ceramics, paper sculpture, metalwork and live plants -- 15 artists in 19 works explore divergent aspects of our food conundrum, and in... Arts & Culture Nov 10, 2022
At the MFA, abstract painter Frank Bowling finally gets his due In “Frank Bowling’s Americas,” running Oct. 22-April 9, American art fans can finally revel in work created by the artist during his seminal years in New York between 1966 and... Arts & Culture Oct 18, 2022
Gold at the Gardner: Paintings 700 years apart have some things in common The exhibition “Metal of Honor: Gold from Simone Martini to Contemporary Art” confirms that “art is art, no matter what the period, and the juxtaposition of old and new creates... Arts & Culture Oct 12, 2022
What scrimshaw — and a female pirate — can tell us about 19th-century whaling On view at Cape Cod's Cahoon Museum of American Art, this largely forgotten folk art form -- turning discarded whale bones and teeth into novel canvases -- is filled with... Play Arts & Culture 05:57 Oct 5, 2022
13 art exhibits to explore this fall This season, museums are offering exhibits revolving around such themes as childhood, food justice and the environment. Arts & Culture Sep 12, 2022
Artist Karmimadeebora McMillan's colorful landscapes are more than what meets the eye Currently on view at the BCA and MassArt x SoWa Gallery, McMillan's work focuses on Black material culture, and it began when her friend gifted her a caricature from the... Arts & Culture Aug 30, 2022
Unionized workers at MASS MoCA plan one-day strike for Friday Frustrated with the progress of contract negotiations, the workers have scheduled a strike and picket outside the museum from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. Arts & Culture Aug 16, 2022
Irreverent pop culture and history join forces at the reopened Emily Dickinson Museum The 19th-century poet's home in Amherst has reopened after a major renovation that includes a boon of donated props from the Apple TV+ series "Dickinson." Play Arts & Culture 06:49 Aug 16, 2022
'Beyond King Tut' invites visitors into an immersive world of the ancient Egyptians It's been 100 years since the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. The installation at the SoWa Power Station offers an opportunity to "experience the artifacts in a whole new way," says... Arts & Culture Jul 13, 2022