Issue 16: Spring/Summer 2026
Celebrate the launch of Issue 16 with us on Saturday, May 16 where print subscribers get free entry. All other orders will ship beginning May 20 and will include a summer edition of the Art Radar map.
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Online • Jun 09, 2026
At the MFA Boston, Contemporary Artists Turn the Gaze Back on the Museum’s Nudes
Review by Thea Quiray Tagle
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We are currently accepting pitches for a series of written and visual works that will contribute to the storytelling, discourse, and critical inquiry surrounding the Un-monument initiative. Submissions are due July 6.
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We welcome submissions for reviews, essays, critical perspectives, profiles, interviews, and artist projects for our fall/winter 2026 issue. Pitches are due July 6.
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Online • Jun 09, 2026
Come Dream Together on the Summer Solstice and Juneteenth
Cosmologyscape: Day of Dreaming is a free, drop-in afternoon of workshops, rest, and collective imagination on Saturday, June 20, at the historic Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, MA.
News by Wagner Foundation (Partner Post)
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Online • Jun 09, 2026
At the MFA Boston, Contemporary Artists Turn the Gaze Back on the Museum’s Nudes
Review by Thea Quiray Tagle
Online • Jun 01, 2026
At Pao Arts Center, Ancestors Take Many Forms in “Temple of Our Ancestral Dreams”
Quick Bit by Danni Shen
Online • May 22, 2026
In “Interlaced, Interwoven,” Jewish Ritual and Contemporary Craft Converge
Quick Bit by Emma Breitman
Civic Culture Desk
Civic Culture • Jun 12, 2026
ArtWonk: “Fund Us or Fail Us,” Boston Budget Approval Process Slouches into Chaos
Protesters are arrested during a chaotic Boston budget vote, Trump targets graduate arts programs and censors history at Bunker Hill, a possible hate crime rattles the Museum of African American History, and Maine’s Senate race takes on national significance.
News by Kim Córdova
Civic Culture • May 28, 2026
ArtWonk: Games Are Afoot at City Hall
Mayor Wu moves to rein in a City Council faction going rogue over her proposed FY 2027 budget, Lee Pelton’s departure as the Boston Foundation’s president and CEO signals a changing of the guard for New England philanthropy, and LA28’s milquetoast Cultural Olympiad announcement reveals how Boston is failing to include the arts in what it hopes will be a door-buster summer for tourism.
News by Kim Córdova
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