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Online • May 29, 2025

“Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory” Calls Upon Remembrance as Act of Liberation

Review by Alisa Prince

Online • May 27, 2025

Mapping the Marvelous: “Wonders of Creation” Charts the Interplay of Art, Science, and Spirit in Islamic Culture

Review by Michael Medeiros

Online • May 27, 2025

Where Transit Takes Us: All Aboard for Art in New Bedford

Feature by Jacqueline Houton

Online • May 22, 2025

Reflecting, Refracting, and Resetting: Maggie Stark’s “Shadow Light” at Fort Hall Gallery

Review by Kaitlyn Ovett Clark

Online • May 20, 2025

"Temporarily Ours" Finds Belonging in the Margins

Review by Michael Medeiros

Online • May 19, 2025

Group Show “Willful Dialects” Refuses a Frame for Asian Diasporic Artists in Boston

Review by Swagato Chakravorty

Online • May 13, 2025

Julien Creuzet Brings the Sounds of the Atlantic to Brown's Bell Gallery

Review by Karla Méndez

Online • May 08, 2025

In Photos: The Boston Art Review Issue 14 Launch Party

Feature by BAR Editorial

Body-based artwork covers the wall of a gallery.

Online • May 06, 2025

Multiplicity as Resistance: "Body Politics" at Gallery 263

Quick Bit by Zaryah Qareeb

Online • May 06, 2025

Hugh Hayden’s “Home Work” Dismantles the Architecture of the American Dream

Review by Darla Migan

Online • Apr 28, 2025

Portals to Power: Fabiola Jean-Louis at the Gardner

Review by Thea Quiray Tagle

Online • Apr 22, 2025

Edvard Munch, Reprinted: A Study in Process at Harvard Art Museums

Review by David Curcio

Online • Apr 16, 2025

Bodies as Geographies, Paper, Mountains: In Conversation with Hong Hong

Interview by Danni Shen

Online • Apr 14, 2025

Martha Schnee’s Embodied Archaeology and the Politics of Imagination

Quick Bit by Alyssa Gaines

Online • Apr 14, 2025

Body, Light, and Other Portals: On Leah Piepgras’s Sensory Light Realms

Quick Bit by Jane Freiman

A landscape artwork and sculptures hung from the ceiling of a gallery space.

Online • Apr 01, 2025

“Disintegration” at Gallery VERY Warps Landscapes, Bodies, and Time

Quick Bit by Nathan Hilyard

Online • Apr 01, 2025

At Tufts, Mobius Considers How Performance Endures Beyond the Moment

Review by Clara Maria Apostolatos

L’Merchie Frazier, Daniela Rivera, and Wen-ti Tsen by Mel Taing.

Online • Mar 26, 2025

Wagner Foundation Announces Inaugural Wagner Arts Fellowship and Artist Awardees

Announcement by Wagner Foundation (Partner Post)

Color swatches, a sandbox, and an assortment of objects in a gallery space.

Online • Mar 25, 2025

Not Too Deep: At Providence College Galleries, a Sandbox for Playing with Memories

Review by Jane Freiman

Online • Mar 18, 2025

John Shen Conjures Singular Images by Capturing Multitudes

Review by Swagato Chakravorty

Online • Mar 16, 2025

Multiple Formats Art Book Fair and Symposium Returns for its Fourth Iteration

Announcement by Multiple Fairs Art Book Fair and Symposium (Partner Post)

Online • Mar 06, 2025

The Catastrophes of Charles Atlas: Fifty Years of Performance Caught on Camera

Review by Zach Ngin

New and used photography books line the shelves of Boston's only photo bookstore.

Online • Mar 04, 2025

Palm Press Opens Boston’s Only Photography Bookstore, Launching a New Third Space for Creatives

News by Emma Breitman

Online • Feb 28, 2025

This Week, Three Boston Art Schools Collaborate for a Citywide Open Studios Event

News by Yoko Zhu

Online • Feb 26, 2025

Announcing the 2025 Emerging Boston Art Writing Fellows

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Three women participating in a panel discussion.

Online • Feb 25, 2025

Celebrating Art, Legacy, and Liberation at Northeastern's bell hooks symposium

Feature by Gabrielle Mitchell-Bonds

Collaged mixed-media works on a gallery wall.

Online • Feb 18, 2025

Photographer Zora J Murff's Collages Ask Audiences to Pay Attention

Quick Bit by Erwin Kamuene

Online • Feb 18, 2025

In “Snail Drawings,” Daniel Ranalli Finds Beauty in the Slow and Slippery

Quick Bit by Katherine Schreiber

Four artists during an outdoor performance.

Online • Feb 04, 2025

Ripple Effect: Lani Asunción Confronts Colonial Pasts While Envisioning Liberated Futures

Feature by Grace Talusan

Pamphlet published by Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement

Online • Feb 04, 2025

Developing a Movement: How the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement Used Printed Matter to Protest Apartheid

Feature by Jovonna Jones

Online • Jan 28, 2025

Holding a Mirror to Heaven: Parallels Between the Shaker Era of Manifestations and Early Spiritualism Movements

Feature by Laura Campagna and Maria Molteni

Online • Jan 28, 2025

Fourteen Exhibitions Opening in Massachusetts this Winter

Feature by BAR Editorial

Online • Jan 26, 2025

Victoria Burge Maps the Massive, the Minuscule, and the Mysterious

Profile by Marcus Civin

Online • Jan 21, 2025

At SoWa, a Unifying Thread Emerges with Solo Exhibitions that Delve into the Domestic

Quick Bit by Melanie Litwin

Participants during a life drawing session.

Online • Jan 14, 2025

Life Drawing Boston Finds a Permanent Home as its Community Grows

Feature by Emma Breitman

Online • Jan 14, 2025

At the ICA, Caribbean Artists Provide Portals to Other Worlds, But Who Enters?

Feature by Jordan Barrant

Online • Jan 07, 2025

“Steina: Playback” Conjures Nostalgia Through Technology and Nature at MIT List

Quick Bit by Jessica Shearer

Online • Jan 07, 2025

Matthew Leifheit's "Queer Archives” Finds a Temporary Home at MassArt

Review by Bessie Rubinstein

portraits of all participants on a red background with yellow doodles

Online • Jan 03, 2025

Community Voices: Memorable Cultural Moments of 2024

Feature by BAR Editorial

Online • Dec 31, 2024

AI or Game Show Personality? Elizabeth Withstandley’s “The State of Being Indivisible” Toys With Identity in the Digital Age

Review by Karolina Hac

Online • Dec 17, 2024

Screen Printing Workshops are Bringing All Corners of Boston’s Creative Community Together

Feature by Claire Dunham

Hearts spray painted on a tire.

Online • Dec 10, 2024

At Essex Art Center, Rixy Brings the Glamour and Grit of the Streets Indoors

Quick Bit by Helina Almonte

Online • Dec 03, 2024

2024 Holiday Gift Guide

Feature by BAR Editorial

Patrons peruse art at a holiday market.

Online • Dec 03, 2024

Winter 2024 Holiday Markets for Shopping Local in the Greater Boston Area

Feature by BAR Editorial

Photograph of artist Tomashi Jackson in her studio.

Online • Dec 02, 2024

A Lifetime of Layering: How Tomashi Jackson moves between history, place, and an ever-expanding practice

Feature by Alisa Prince

A corrugated metal container stands in the center of a gallery space.

Online • Nov 25, 2024

On Kinship with Land and One Another: In Conversation with Deanna Ledezma, Josh Rios, and Anthony Romero

Interview by Jameson Johnson

A still from an animation featuring a a hand and floating objects.

Online • Nov 19, 2024

At the Carpenter Center, “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten” Attempts to Piece Together the Undefinable Life and Practice of Harry Smith

Review by Karolina Hac

Babies, toddlers and their caregivers sit around a circular table in a purple-lit space. The main performer in the interactive show bends down to one of the audience members.

Online • Nov 12, 2024

Making Theater for the Most Drama-Prone of Audiences

Interview by Jacqueline Houton

Tech light projections cover the facade of a former tire shop.

Online • Nov 12, 2024

Illuminus Kicks Off First Neighborhood-Specific Activation at an Old Tire Shop in Dorchester

Quick Bit by Erwin Kamuene

Owners of the bookstore look over blueprints of the space.

Online • Nov 12, 2024

Literature and Liberation: A Bookstore and Gathering Place Comes to Fields Corner

Feature by Niara Simone Hightower

The entrance to the Boston Art Review Issue 13 launch party adorned with metallic streamers and backlit by an array of colorful lights.

Online • Nov 05, 2024

In Photos: The Boston Art Review Issue 13 Launch Party

Feature by BAR Editorial

A long embroidered tapestry adorns a gallery wall.

Online • Nov 05, 2024

At MassArt Art Museum, "Displacement" Tells a Story of Environmental Destruction and Human Migration

Review by Shana Garr

Carmen Hermo

Online • Oct 29, 2024

New To Town: Carmen Hermo on her Appointment as Curator of Contemporary Art at the MFA

Interview by Jameson Johnson

Online • Oct 29, 2024

Artadia Announces 2024 Boston Awardees

News by Artadia (Partner Post)

Online • Oct 22, 2024

"Alive and Kicking" Packs a Playful Punch at the Colby College Museum of Art

Review by Maddie Klett

Online • Oct 22, 2024

At Boston Cyberarts Gallery, "Plastic Image Retrospective" Reflects on When Xerox Machines Were Avant-Garde

Review by Jackson Davidow

Artist Jo Ann Rothschild stands between two large hung canvases that feature her signature mark making painting technique.

Online • Oct 16, 2024

Making Her Mark: Jo Ann Rothschild on Forms in Motion and the Perpetual Emergence of Women Artists

Interview by Michelle Millar Fisher

Online • Oct 14, 2024

“Four Womxn: New Musings on Blackness” Centers the Black Female Gaze at the MFA

Review by Gabrielle Mitchell-Bonds

Online • Oct 08, 2024

At Brookline Arts Center, Inas Halabi Filters Destruction Through a Red Lens in "To a Returning Cloud"

Review by Zach Ngin

Online • Oct 01, 2024

In Newport, a Queer Sex Scandal and Sailor Sting Operation From 1919 Get a Film Dramatization

Review by Marcus Civin

A cluster of fur is surrounded by a brown belt, which in turn is orbited by an arrangement of candles.

Online • Oct 01, 2024

At MASS MoCA, “Like Magic” Offers Mystical Resistance

Review by Jessica Shearer

Online • Sep 24, 2024

A Bookstore, Collective, and Exhibition: At Tufts University Art Galleries, "Ulises: Assembly" Illustrates How Artists’ Books Refuse to be Defined

Review by Jane Freiman

Online • Sep 17, 2024

At LaiSun Keane, Michael C. Thorpe’s Quilts Challenge Convention in “Barstool Sports”

Quick Bit by Erwin Kamuene

Artwork included in the "States of Becoming" exhibition at McMullen Museum of Art.

Online • Sep 10, 2024

Eleven Art Exhibitions to See in Massachusetts This Fall

Feature by BAR Editorial

Online • Sep 04, 2024

At the Portland Museum of Art, Jeremy Frey's Baskets Conjure the Past While Presenting a Warning for the Future

Review by Kat Zagaria Buckley

A mom and daughter use the Dream Portal Phone Booth as part of the event.

Online • Sep 03, 2024

Department of Public Imagination’s Radical Guide to Rest and Relaxation

Review by Alli Armijo

Online • Sep 03, 2024

At Piano Craft Gallery, Ryan Horton Finds His Footing with "Ego & Insecurities"

Quick Bit by Alisa Prince

Online • Aug 27, 2024

 In “No Place Like Home,” Three Artists Present Fresh Perspectives on the Streets of Arlington

Review by Jacqueline Houton

Online • Aug 27, 2024

Another SoWa Departure: In Conversation with Abigail Ogilvy on the Closure of Her Boston Gallery

Interview by Jameson Johnson

Faces made of paper bags arranged in a grid on a gallery wall.

Online • Aug 24, 2024

Firelei Báez: Unveiling the Pan-African Diaspora

Critical Perspective by Helina Almonte

Online • Aug 20, 2024

Heather McPherson Grasps at Loss, Memory, and Dreams at the Distillery Gallery

Review by Karolina Hac

An artist performs an interactive performance piece.

Online • Aug 13, 2024

Vivid Oblivion's New Performance Series Leaves "Some Kind Of Residue"

Quick Bit by Claire Ogden

An envelope features three colored spots, a purple stamp in the corner.

Online • Aug 12, 2024

Exhibition of Envelopes Addressed by Notable Designers Fills the Drawers at Katherine Small Gallery

Review by Poppy Livingstone

Online • Aug 07, 2024

A New Mural by Thomas “Detour” Evans Provokes a Conversation About Where Public Art Belongs 

News by Oisin Rowe

Online • Aug 06, 2024

At Gallery Kayafas, Photography that Captures the Agency of the Incarcerated

Quick Bit by Erwin Kamuene

Online • Aug 05, 2024

Karma’s Maine Group Show “A Particular Kind of Heaven” Offers a Century of Skygazing

Review by Jessica Shearer

Online • Jul 30, 2024

Love, Hijinks, and Fragile Groundwork: A Conversation with Ethan Murrow

Interview by Monica Lynn Manoski

From a sea of twinkling bright lights, the tail of a whale appears.

Online • Jul 26, 2024

Wu Tsang's "Of Whales” Conjures an Otherworldly Oceanscape at a Distance from the Real Thing

Review by Thea Quiray Tagle

Online • Jul 22, 2024

Moko Fukuyama Creates Microcosms From a Tackle Box

Interview by Jess Wilcox

Online • Jul 17, 2024

Two Sides of Summer: "Tara Donovan and Hamish Fulton" at Krakow Witkin Gallery

Quick Bit by Helen Miller

Korean American artist Jean Shin stands beside a large leaning tree stump—one of the pieces she's working on on site at Appleton Farms.

Online • Jul 17, 2024

A Perch with Purpose: Jean Shin's Salvaged Trees Greet Birds and Visitors at Appleton Farms

Feature by Karolina Hac

Online • Jul 16, 2024

A Revisionist History: Bats! at Peabody Essex Museum

Review by Hilary Irons

Online • Jul 16, 2024

At ODD-KIN, Jungil Hong Defies the Constraints of the Labor of Art-Making

Review by Elizabeth Maynard

Online • Jul 16, 2024

2024 Boston Art Writing Fellows Blog: Exhibition Reflections

Review by BAR Editorial

Online • Jul 09, 2024

Continuity in Community Organizing: Engaging Movement Histories Held at Museums

Feature by Alula Hunsen

Online • Jul 09, 2024

Unearthed History: Tragedy and Triumph in Maya Erdelyi’s "Anyuka"

Review by Emma Breitman

A black and white work of depicting an artist on a stool in her studio with painted canvases all around her.

Online • Jul 02, 2024

LaToya M. Hobbs Traces Intimacies

Feature by Oluwatobiloba Ajayi

A box of Old Glory condoms and a Latex is for Lovers campaign pin.

Online • Jun 25, 2024

Jay Critchley Provocatively Pairs Patriotism with Queerness at SPOKE Gallery

Review by Jackson Davidow

Online • Jun 24, 2024

At BAMS Fest, the "Rep Your City" Art and Graffiti Exhibition Returns with an Art Sale

News by Niara Simone Hightower

Online • Jun 18, 2024

What to See at New England Galleries this Summer

Feature by BAR Editorial

Online • Jun 12, 2024

When Artists Organize: The fight against displacement in Greater Boston

Feature by Shira Laucharoen

Three large featured artworks featuring rich tones of orange, red, and yellow. A woman carrying a mirror; friends huddled in a circle lying down and leaning on one another; a man casually seated staring off in contemplation.

Online • Jun 11, 2024

Fourteen Must-See Museum Exhibitions to Check Out in New England This Summer

Feature by BAR Editorial

An installation view of the Rob Moore Retrospective. The image is a view of a corner -- on the white wall to the left are to rectangular works, and on the light-brown wall to the right is a framed piece next to another rectangular work.

Online • Jun 10, 2024

At Gallery VERY, a Mini Retrospective of Work by Rob Moore Reveals an Overlooked Pillar in Boston’s 1970s–90s Art Scene

Review by Peter Murphy

Online • Jun 09, 2024

In Providence, "Everything Living Fights Back" Gets a Second Life Following Censorship of Shey 'Rí Acu' Rivera Ríos by Providence College

Feature by Elizabeth Maynard

Installation view of a painting of a distorted path winding through the forest.

Online • Jun 06, 2024

At Ellen Miller Gallery, Cristi Rinklin Paints on a Slippery Plane of Memory and Perception

Review by Oisin Rowe

Online • Jun 06, 2024

Tim McCool Suspends Time and Shadows at Anderson Yezerski Gallery

Quick Bit by Douglas Breault

Online • Jun 02, 2024

An Honest Self-Rendering: Looking Inside of Sima Schloss’s On Empathy at ShowUp

Review by Helina Almonte

Charcoal drawing of a scene inside a barber's shop. A young man gets his hair cut while an older gentleman waits his turn.

Online • May 30, 2024

Ode to the Barbershop: Style as Preservation in Erick Maldonado Delights Momentum at Kingston Gallery

Quick Bit by Erwin Kamuene

A black and white photo of a group of women seated at a table where designs are laid out.

Online • May 30, 2024

A History of the Folly Cove Designers, a Pioneering Printmaking Collective

Critical Perspective by David Curcio

People surround a bright yellow, orange, and red dragon sculpture in Chinatown, Boston.

Online • May 30, 2024

Putting the Public in Public Art: How participatory projects are bringing Bostonians together

Feature by Jacquinn Sinclair

A set of artworks, the centerpiece featuring bright, bold colors, on display against a white wall at Gallery 263.

Online • May 23, 2024

Eat With Your Eyes Offers Temptations at Gallery 263

Quick Bit by Dylan Bunyak

Online • May 23, 2024

In Photos: The Boston Art Review Issue 12 Launch Party

Feature by BAR Editorial

An installation features gold hangings suspended from the ceiling.

Online • May 21, 2024

New Gallery No Call No Show Gives Artists a Space to Test-Run Big Ideas

Feature by Emma Breitman

Online • May 21, 2024

2024 Benefit Art Sale

Feature by BAR Editorial

Online • May 13, 2024

YouthBuild Boston Hosts First-Ever Gallery Exhibit, Bringing the Work of Stull and Lee to a New Generation of Architects

Review by Oisin Rowe

A group of figures appear within a wooden picture frame, while a young person points directly at the camera, smiling.

Online • May 07, 2024

“Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And” at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College

Review by Alisa Prince

Two screens display the year "1975" while audience members sit at tables, observing the event.

Online • May 01, 2024

Community Engagement Is Underway for a New Vietnam War Memorial in Dorchester

Feature by Shira Laucharoen

A group of visitors and staff pose in front of a scene of buildings and a black and white checker board sidewalk design.

Online • May 01, 2024

Now + There Changes Name to Boston Public Art Triennial and Announces Plans for a City-Wide Triennial in 2025

News by BAR Editorial

A white picket fence emerges in a patch of green grass in the indoor exhibition space.

Online • Apr 16, 2024

BU MFA Exhibition “Sculpturecore” Takes to an Abandoned CVS to Probe at What Lies Beneath the Surface

Review by Shira Laucharoen

Taleen Batalian's multimedia work hangs on a white wall to the left, while McAree's pink bulbous sculpture sits on a pedestal to the right. In the back, there are stairs leading up to the show at Overlap Gallery.

Online • Apr 08, 2024

Taleen Batalian and Françoise McAree in Tandem: “Counterpoint” at Overlap Gallery

Review by Elizabeth Maynard

A rectangular museum exterior surrounded by small patches of snow. A ceiling of light-bulbs illuminates the entrance.

Online • Apr 08, 2024

Language, Symbols, and Systems: Sneha Shrestha Layers Personal Devotions with Cultural Rituals

Interview by Jameson Johnson

Jameson Johnson, a light-skinned woman with bangs and hair tied into a pony tail, sits at a table with her elbow rested atop a stack of magazines, smiling at the camera.

Online • Mar 26, 2024

Boston Art Review Appoints First Executive Director

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Colorful paintings on silk adorn the wall of the gallery for Lauren Luloff's solo show.

Online • Mar 26, 2024

In Portland, Lauren Luloff Creates New Formations

Review by Kari Adelaide Razdow

A sculptural vessel sitting on a pedestal foregrounds the image, with six paintings of various sizes and figurative sculpture in the background.

Online • Mar 25, 2024

Fountain Street Gallery to Close at the End of March

News by Shira Laucharoen

Online • Mar 21, 2024

Announcing New Board Members and Leadership Appointments

Announcement by BAR Editorial

A multimedia work depicting a little girl screen-printed pink, jump-roping in a living room. To her left cut off by a doorway, is an older person sitting on a bench, crossing their legs.

Online • Mar 20, 2024

Shantel Miller’s “I’ve Been Trying to Reach You” Converses Across the Divide

Review by Shira Laucharoen

Online • Mar 19, 2024

At the Whitney Biennial, Expansive Representations of Age, Gender, and Technology Are Subtly on Display

Review by Lauren Klotzman

Artworks conveying embodied femininity, set against the white wall of a gallery, at Fitchburg Art Museum.

Online • Mar 19, 2024

Corporal Identity: “On Her Terms: Feminine Power Embodied” at the Fitchburg Art Museum

Review by Emma Breitman

The image of a Japanese city is displayed in a work of art by Allie Tsubota.

Online • Mar 12, 2024

Tragedies Transcending Time: Allie Tsubota’s “Dead Letter Room” Joins Late Poet Hara Tamiki’s Correspondence with Ghosts

Review by Oisin Rowe

Image of MASS MoCA building in 1999 with clear blue sky.

Online • Mar 06, 2024

MASS MoCA Unionized Workers Embark on Indefinite Strike Over Wages

News by Shira Laucharoen

Photographs by Yorgos Efthymiadis, featuring scenes of nature and profiles of individuals, line the walls of the gallery.

Online • Mar 05, 2024

Sunlit Sentiments: Yorgos Efthymiadis’s “The Lighthouse Keepers” at Gallery Kayafas     

Review by Douglas Breault

Three young adults pose together smiling against a turquoise to pale green gradient background.

Online • Feb 28, 2024

Announcing the 2024 Emerging Boston Art Writing Fellows

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Online • Feb 27, 2024

Jessi Stegall Is Offering Odes

Profile by Jessica Shearer

Online • Feb 15, 2024

Anti-melody, Insurgent Rhythm: Ekene Ijeoma’s “Deconstructed Anthems: Massachusetts” Uses the National Anthem to Shine a Light on Racial Injustice

Review by Niara Simone Hightower

Online • Feb 12, 2024

A Grab Bag of Goodies from the Edge of the World: The Fine Arts Work Center Fellows at PAAM

Review by Jacqueline Houton

Fourteen people pose together in the State House holding creative advocacy signs.

Online • Feb 07, 2024

Advancing the Creative Sector Legislative Agenda: A Breakdown of the Bills

News by Shira Laucharoen

Online • Feb 06, 2024

Thirteen Exhibitions to Catch This Winter

Feature by BAR Editorial

Online • Feb 01, 2024

“The Myth of Normal: A Celebration of Authentic Expression” at MassArt Art Museum

Review by Katherine Schreiber

Artwork is installed flag-like across five floor-to-ceiling poles in Sophie Friedman-Pappas and TJ Shin's installation.

Online • Jan 29, 2024

Speculative Tourism from NYC to the DMZ: Sophie Friedman-Pappas and TJ Shin in Conversation with Moira Sims

Interview by Moira Sims

Online • Jan 22, 2024

Christian Walker: Thoroughly Political, Poignant, and Worthy of Further Exploration

Review by Marcus Civin

Online • Jan 19, 2024

Taking Back the Narrative(s): “Deeply Rooted: Faith in Reproductive Justice” at Brandeis’ Kniznick Gallery

Review by Melanie Litwin

Online • Jan 16, 2024

Clowns, Double-Takes, and Canadian Exports: New “Winteractive” Installations in Downtown Crossing Aim to Spark Dialogue and Connection, but for Whom?

News by Jameson Johnson

Sculptures and other works of art representing the messy and murky at a New York City exhibit.

Online • Jan 09, 2024

Inside Your Insides: “Getting to Ick” at Hesse Flatow

Review by Maya Rubio

Online • Jan 08, 2024

“Faith Ringgold: Freedom to Say What I Please” at Worcester Art Museum

Review by Karla Méndez

Online • Dec 21, 2023

"As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic” at Peabody Essex Museum

Review by Alisa Prince

Online • Dec 18, 2023

New Expressions of Traditional Genres at LaiSun Keane

Review by Jessica Shearer

Image of an orange, green, and black version of the American flag.

Online • Dec 14, 2023

America on Display: Making the Museum a Classroom for Citizenship

Feature by Jacqueline Houton

Corita Kent's installation features brightly colored works that incorporate text.

Online • Dec 13, 2023

“Always Be Around: Corita Kent, Community and Pedagogy” at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery at Holy Cross

Review by Maddie Klett

Online • Dec 12, 2023

Material Transformation and Voyages of Change: Reggie Burrows Hodges’s “Turning a Big Ship” at the Addison Gallery of American Art 

Review by Hilary Irons

A woman with tentacles swims in the water in Caroline Bagenal's image.

Online • Dec 07, 2023

Caroline Bagenal’s Swimming Sculptures Explore the Healing Power of Water

Review by Karolina Hac

Twinkling lights hang over the stalls at the SoWA Winter Festival.

Online • Dec 05, 2023

Holiday Markets for Shopping Local in the Greater Boston Area

Feature by BAR Editorial

An assortment of holiday gifts to purchase, from sake to books.

Online • Dec 04, 2023

2023 Holiday Gift Guide

Feature by BAR Editorial

Online • Nov 28, 2023

Queered Botany, Quilted Archives: In Conversation with Aaron McIntosh

Interview by Kendall DeBoer

Online • Nov 21, 2023

Adoration and Collections by the Sea at the New Bedford Whaling Museum

Review by Shana Garr

Online • Nov 21, 2023

Canvases of Camouflage: In Conversation With Tammy Nguyen

Interview by Josephine Halvorson

Online • Nov 14, 2023

Images Reclaimed: Chantal Zakari's New Book Sends Messages to Those Inside

Review by Claire Ogden

Online • Nov 14, 2023

Eyes Without a Face: Providence-Based Duo Velvet Other World Explore Sexuality and Concealment

Feature by Marcus Civin

Online • Nov 13, 2023

Visits and Vigils: Crystalle Lacouture’s Material Memories

Profile by Jessica Shearer

Online • Nov 07, 2023

Holding Humanity with the Boston Palestine Film Festival: A Conversation with Erik DeLuca and Michael Maria

Interview by Erik DeLuca

Online • Nov 07, 2023

Modernism Both Past and Present Shine in Two Shows at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art

Review by Hilary Irons

Online • Nov 06, 2023

What to See and Do at This Year's Boston Art Book Fair

Feature by Gina Lindner

Headshots of Artadia awardees Luis Arnías, Juan José Barboza-Gubo, and Alison Croney Moses.

Online • Oct 31, 2023

Announcing the 2023 Boston Artadia Awardees

Announcement

Online • Oct 31, 2023

Sculpting as Translation: In Conversation with Jocelyn Shu

Interview by Yutong Shi

The face of a woman emerges as part of a sculpture in the center of a room, set in front of blue and green walls.

Online • Oct 17, 2023

Building Worlds of Resistance: A Conversation with Arghavan Khosravi

Interview by Jessica Shearer

Works of art from Artadia finalists Juan José Barboza-Gubo, Alison Croney Moses, and Allison Maria Rodriguez.

Online • Oct 10, 2023

Artadia Announces 2023 Boston Finalists

Announcement

Image of panel discussion at LabCentral during Nucarta's launch event

Online • Sep 27, 2023

Putting the Art in Startup: How Anupallavi Sinha Is Inviting Artists into the Laab

Interview by Alula Hunsen

Outside at The Greenway, visitors mingle and view panels that comprise an installation.

Online • Sep 19, 2023

A People’s Archive: “Hip-Hop: Seen/Unseen” opens on the Greenway

News by Alula Hunsen

Installation view of “STUFFED" at Boston University Art Galleries

Online • Sep 14, 2023

Pillow Talk: Intimacy and Animacy in "STUFFED"

Review by Kendall DeBoer

Image of "The Attic Window" by Mildred McMillen

Online • Sep 12, 2023

Printing in P-town: Overlooked Printers Make an Impression at the MFA

Review by Katherine Schreiber

Online • Sep 08, 2023

In Harvard Square, Nat Reed’s “Bikes Move Us” Conveys New Meanings from Old Forms

Review by Sonia Richter

Dangling red strands form an installation by Yu-Wen Wu in the middle of a room.

Online • Sep 06, 2023

Fourteen Exhibitions to Catch This Fall

Feature by BAR Editorial

A woman stands in front of a wall of black and white photographs.

Online • Sep 01, 2023

At Beacon Gallery, Photographer Cheryl Miller Captures Eternal Communities

Review by Alisa Prince

Installation view of "Kathy Butterly, Lynne Drexler, Marley Freeman" at Karma in Maine

Online • Aug 29, 2023

At Karma’s Summer Outpost in Maine, Color Breaks the Silence of a Former Church

Review by Hilary Irons

An aquatic installation on display rising beneath a gallery's A-frame ceiling.

Online • Aug 29, 2023

Brian Smith Explores Aquatic Futures in “That Queer Fish”

Review by Karolina Hac

A headshot of Lilan Yang, posed in front of a leafy tree.

Online • Aug 26, 2023

Five Questions with Filmmaker Lilan Yang

Interview by Delia Harrington

Elizabeth Colomba stands in front of a series of fairytale inspired images, set against a navy blue wall.

Online • Aug 25, 2023

Elizabeth Colomba's "Mythologies" Reclaims Whitewashed Narratives

Review by Jessica Shearer

The images of faces are displayed on canvases, set against a white brick wall at Gallery VERY.

Online • Aug 22, 2023

Portraits and Perception: At Gallery VERY, Familiar Faces Line the Walls of “PERSONA”

Review by Poppy Livingstone

Black and white comic illustrations feature queer themes.

Online • Aug 14, 2023

A Trove of Donelan’s Queer Cartoons Delights at Jameson & Thompson

Review by Claire Ogden

Lush paintings by Matthew Wong explore rhythm and gesture.

Online • Aug 07, 2023

A Short but Winding Road in Matthew Wong’s Paintings at MFA, Boston

Review by Karolina Hac

Online • Jul 25, 2023

Learning and Imagining Reparations with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics

Feature by Erik DeLuca

Online • Jul 18, 2023

Passing the Torch: Edmund Barry Gaither and Danny Rivera on Organizing and Keeping the Faith

Interview by Alula Hunsen

In the center of the image, a ceramic vessel stands on a black pedestal at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Online • Jul 07, 2023

The Undeniable Legacy of Edgefield's Black Potters Rings Loud and Clear at the MFA

Review by Lian Parsons-Thomason

A dark photograph, hanging against a white wall, by Kate Greene features a shimmering display of light.

Online • Jul 06, 2023

Kate Greene’s “Black Sun” Toys With Photographic Distortion at Grant Wahlquist Gallery

Review by Hilary Irons

Image of "Touch" by Kristen Emack

Online • Jul 04, 2023

Capturing Childhood: In Conversation with Photographer Kristen Emack 

Interview by Bethany Ericson

Lyle Ashton Harris wears a black shirt and glasses, standing in front of a wall of colorful images.

Online • Jun 28, 2023

Mapping Obsessão: In Conversation with Lyle Ashton Harris

Interview by Jameson Johnson

A young girl wearing a white sweatshirt paints bees on a bright pink wall.

Online • Jun 26, 2023

From Murals to Movements: How Street Art Is Transforming East Boston and Beyond

Feature by Dana Forsythe

A group of people sit around a table in a darkened room, taking notes on paper.

Online • Jun 26, 2023

Covert Operations: Tyler Coburn and Ian Hatcher's Remote Viewer Explores CIA Seances

Interview by Hilary Irons

Online • Jun 20, 2023

Take the Day: Fourteen Exhibitions That Warrant Art-Filled Trips Across New England

Feature by BAR Editorial

Circle Squared collaborators sit on a couch and chairs in front of a backdrop that features figures.

Online • Jun 18, 2023

Imagining with Imagine W/: Circle Squared Screens Black Artist Conversations at the ICA for Juneteenth

Feature by Alula Hunsen

A Black woman floats alone in a deep blue body of water, in a film.

Online • Jun 14, 2023

Juneteenth 2023: Cultural and Community Gatherings Across Boston

Feature by Niara Simone Hightower

Online • Jun 13, 2023

Lucy Kim’s Vibrant Matter Mystifies and Enchants in “Dead or Dormant” at ODD-KIN

Review by Kendall DeBoer

Jello Biafra, lead singer of the punk rock group Dead Kennedys performs on stage on April 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Online • Jun 12, 2023

A Bygone Era in Boston’s Punk Scene Is Revisited in Michael Grecco’s Anderson Yezerski Exhibition

Profile by Olivia Deng

Mitsuko Brooks holds a letter, peering at it intently, while wearing white gloves.

Online • Jun 06, 2023

In “Letters Mingle Souls,” Mitsuko Brooks's Mail Art Ventures Beyond Life and Death

Review by Marcus Civin

Forty speakers rest on stands, while three figures are positioned throughout the installation.

Online • Jun 01, 2023

At MAAM, Jace Clayton Invites the Public to Coauthor his Algorithmic Musical Scores

Review by Toby Wu

Colorful designs, many of faces, adorn the white walls of Shoe Bones Gallery.

Online • May 27, 2023

The Sublime Feminine: Caleb Yono’s “Flotsam” Actualizes Femme Futures at Shoe Bones Gallery

Review by Poppy Livingstone

Charles Yuen's painting reveals two figures diving in opposite directions, while the structure of an atom hovers overhead, alongside other symbols.

Online • May 27, 2023

In “Rhyming the Invisible,” Charles Yuen Scripts a Planet into Existence through his First Solo Exhibition in Boston

Review by Fatima Swaray

Two dancers perform under purple light at the Boston Art Review fifth anniversary party.

Online • May 24, 2023

Event Recap: The Fifth Anniversary and Issue 10 Release Party

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Online • May 23, 2023

A Film for Transient Archives: In Conversation with Georden West

Interview by Jasper A. Sanchez

A checkered pattern featuring green tones by Courtney Stock is on sale.

Online • May 21, 2023

Fifth Anniversary Benefit Art Sale

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Online • May 18, 2023

Speculative Narratives for Corrective Futures: In Conversation with Elisabeth Subrin

Interview by Jessica Shearer

Installation view of "Mom in the Green Jacket" by Brooke Stewart, including works in progress.

Online • May 08, 2023

Bad Math with Good Results: Brooke Stewart’s Solo Presentation at Boston Center for the Arts

Review by Amy Bryzgel

Online • May 01, 2023

Boston Art Review Announces its Inaugural Board of Directors

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Brightly colored, yellow and blue artwork from Crystalle Lacouture.

Online • Apr 28, 2023

Benefit for the Art Writing Fellowship Fund: Crystalle Lacouture's "Good Power from All Directions"

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Installation view of "Social Fabric" at the Newport Art Museum

Online • Apr 27, 2023

Textile Politics: Newport Art Museum’s “Social Fabric” Remixes the Subversive Stitch

Review by Kendall DeBoer

Online • Apr 18, 2023

In “The Familiars,” Haley Wood and Aris Moore Craft Creatures that Recall Our Younger Selves

Review by Karolina Hac

Online • Apr 07, 2023

“Call and Response” Imagines a Radical Collective Future in the Midst of Isolation

Review by Oisin Rowe

Online • Apr 04, 2023

Like Mel King: Honoring His Legacy

Feature by Nakia Hill

Online • Apr 01, 2023

Alejandra Cuadra and Ashley Page Present Artistic Journeys That Intertwine

Review by Karolina Hac

Statues, figurines, and more adorn white platforms at Tufts University Art Galleries.

Online • Mar 30, 2023

Artists are Reconsidering the Relics at Tufts University Art Galleries

Review by Sarah Baker

Online • Mar 24, 2023

In “Barkley” at Apartment 13 Gallery, A Cult Hero Makes a Comeback

Review by Gina Lindner

Online • Mar 21, 2023

Sarah Meyers Brent Brings New Life to the Objects we Leave Behind

Profile by Rachael Hershon

A rainbow net hangs from the ceiling, while signs display the words "rage" and "moment" in an exhibition space.

Online • Mar 17, 2023

Marissa Cote's “I promise to stay in touch” Asks How We Exercise Love

Review by Maya Rubio

Online • Mar 16, 2023

Conflict Rouses Providence Arts Community: Artist Nafis M. White Calls Upon Volunteers to Keep Doors of Central Contemporary Arts Open; CCA Responds by Shutting Doors Permanently

Feature by Kendall DeBoer

Singer Ashley Villard performs in front of an audience in a room that displays artwork on the walls.

Online • Mar 14, 2023

At “All Black Everything,” the Museum of NCAAA Came to Life with a Community Celebration

Feature by Niara Simone Hightower

Installation image of "Surface Tension", in a dark room.

Online • Mar 13, 2023

Ripple Effects: Diving into “Waterlines” at the Somerville Museum

Review by Jacqueline Houton

Online • Mar 06, 2023

Babes in Toyland: Gendered Dynamics “At Play” in Northeastern’s Gallery 360

Review by Kendall DeBoer

Headshots of Poppy Livingstone and Fatima "Tima" Swaray

Online • Mar 03, 2023

Announcing the 2023 Boston Art Writing Fellows

Announcement by BAR Editorial

An open book by Suzanne Moore, displaying red and orange pages.

Online • Feb 28, 2023

Books of Beauty: The Boston Athenaeum Presents a Symposium on Artists' Books in the 21st Century March 10-11

Announcement

An assortment of blue screens with wires dangling from them fill the space.

Online • Feb 28, 2023

A Gutted Pub at MIT has Been Brought to Life as a Cybernetic Performance Site

Review by Jameson Johnson

Jason Moran, Black Stars: Writing in the Dark

Online • Feb 13, 2023

Thirteen Art Exhibitions to Catch Around New England as Winter Turns into Spring

Feature by BAR Editorial

Workers on strike congregating and carrying bold signs.

Online • Jan 25, 2023

When Workers Come A-Knockin’: Cultural Institutions and the Fight for Unionization

Feature by Josie Thaddeus-Johns

Online • Jan 17, 2023

Unveiling "The Embrace," Boston’s Tribute to the Legacy of Coretta Scott King and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

News by Jameson Johnson

George Fifield stands in a brown jacket and green hat in front of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, lit by blue neon light.

Online • Jan 09, 2023

Remembering George Fifield, Founder of Boston Cyberarts

Feature by Jameson Johnson

An installation features a beige crib and a colorful design of children, set against a white wall.

Online • Dec 30, 2022

Our Favorite Art Moments of 2022

Feature by BAR Editorial

Toni Pepe inside her Malden studio, seated in a turquoise chair in front of a cluttered table.

Online • Dec 19, 2022

Photography Into Palimpsest: In Conversation With Toni Pepe

Interview by Michelle Millar Fisher

A panoramic view of cross cultural encounters at the Davis Museum.

Online • Dec 13, 2022

At the Davis Museum, Lisa Reihana Recasts Colonial Narratives Through an Indigenous Lens

Review by Marcus Civin

Four works of art by B. Ingrid Olson on display against a blank white wall.

Online • Dec 12, 2022

B. Ingrid Olson's "History Mother, Little Sister” Invokes the Body at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Review by Karolina Hac

A display of holiday gifts to purchase, including a black BAR tote bag and a T-shirt.

Online • Dec 06, 2022

The 2022 Holiday Gift Guide

Feature by BAR Editorial

Online • Dec 03, 2022

At Tufts, “The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East" Proposes New Possibilities Among Shifting Geopolitical Futures

Review by Danni Shen

Online • Nov 30, 2022

Woven Choreographies: Inside the Movement with Bhen Alan

Profile by Jessica Shearer

Headshots of eight women who held a conversation about grantmaking.

Online • Nov 18, 2022

Radical Welcome: A Roundtable on Grantmaking as Care-Centered Work

Interview by Abigail Satinsky

Online • Nov 15, 2022

On Publishing and Organizing: In Conversation with Mark Anthony Hernandez Motaghy

Interview by Erin Segal

Three artists, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Stephen Hamilton, and Shantel Miller, who won Artadia awards.

Online • Nov 08, 2022

Artadia Announces 2022 Boston Awardees

Announcement

Tables set up by exhibitors at the Boston Art Book Fair.

Online • Nov 02, 2022

The Boston Art Book Fair Is Making Its Return

Announcement by BAR Editorial

An installation by vanessa german featuring exquisite sculptural work.

Online • Oct 17, 2022

Twelve Fall Exhibitions to Check Out in Boston and Beyond

Feature by BAR Editorial

Colorful works adorn the white walls in Sunny Moxin Chen's installation.

Online • Oct 13, 2022

At Distillery Gallery, Sunny Moxin Chen's "Wandering Be-ing" Presents a Meandering Journey

Review by Maya Rubio

Six works from Boston area artist finalists.

Online • Oct 11, 2022

Artadia Announces 2022 Boston Finalists

Announcement

Online • Oct 04, 2022

At RISD, "Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability" Turns a Lens to Visibility and Care

Review by Matthew Lawrence

A flyer features a dazzling silver bust, pink lettering, and a checkered background.

Online • Sep 20, 2022

Behind the Scenes of Boston Ujima’s Black Portals Party

Interview

Fernadina Chan and Soyoung L. Kim perform in front of a full moon set against a dark sky.

Online • Sep 13, 2022

Soyoung L. Kim's GHOST ROOTS Reimagines an Ancient Korean Dance for the Screen

Profile by Oisin Rowe

A procession of figures wearing white journey across a graveyard.

Online • Sep 06, 2022

Self-Emancipated: Ifé Franklin in Conversation with Chenoa Baker

Interview by Chenoa Baker

Victor "Marka27" Quiñonez's mural in the city, set against the backdrop of a blue sky filled with clouds.

Online • Aug 23, 2022

The New Public Art Projects That Are Keeping Us Outdoors

Feature by BAR Editorial

A portrait of Sheida Soleimani wearing a green dress during an exhibit installation.

Online • Aug 09, 2022

Home Truths: Sheida Soleimani's Trenchant Tableaus

Profile by Jordan Amirkhani

Online • Jul 19, 2022

At MAAM, "Designing Motherhood" Delves Into the Universal yet Deeply Personal Experience of Birth

Review by Jacqueline Houton

On a large white board positioned in front of a Greek column, text explains the "Field Visions" exhibit.

Online • Jul 05, 2022

Uncharted Territories: A New Look at Landscapes

Review by Jessica Shearer

Online • Jun 25, 2022

Graffiti or Street Art? The False Dichotomy

Profile by Arielle Gray

Illustration of New England with a green background and small illustrations of art destinations.

Online • Jun 15, 2022

Day-trip Worthy Exhibitions to See This Summer Around New England

Feature by BAR Editorial

Chanel Thervil and Napoleon Jones-Henderson stand in an artist studio with an array of materials in the background.

Online • Jun 06, 2022

Face to Face: Napoleon Jones-Henderson & Chanel Thervil

Interview by Dell Marie Hamilton

Online • May 31, 2022

Adria Arch and Jai Hart Invite Us to Join Their “Play Date” at Nearby Gallery

Review by Maya Rubio

A woman in a blue dress stands beside an assemblage of furniture in the outdoors.

Online • May 29, 2022

Searching for Home in a Fractured Fairy Tale: Raida Adon’s Strangeness

Review by Jessica Shearer

Online • May 25, 2022

Fungal Threads: Minga Opazo’s Biodegradable Textile and Mushroom Sculptures

Interview

Guests have fun at Boston Art Review's Issue 08 launch party.

Online • May 24, 2022

Event Recap: The Issue 08 Launch Party

Feature by BAR Editorial

A work of art made from thatch, steel, and wood, designed by Simone Leigh.

Online • May 17, 2022

The Prowess of Simone Leigh in Venice

Review by Jameson Johnson

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong stands with a colorful public work of art behind her.

Online • May 10, 2022

Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong Creates Sites for Rest and Play in Boston's Chinatown

Profile by Lian Parsons-Thomason

Online • Apr 29, 2022

Resistance Language: Lisa Anne Auerbach's Twenty-Five Years of Wearing Her Thoughts on Her Sleeves

Review by Sara Farrell Okamura

A woman stands in the center of the gallery space, taking in figurative paintings.

Online • Apr 18, 2022

Portrait of a Moment: “A Place for Me” at the ICA

Review by Jacqueline Houton

Online • Mar 29, 2022

Mark Your Calendars: Eight Shows to Check Out in Greater Boston This Spring

Feature by BAR Editorial

Bright neon images, created by Katherine Mitchell DiRico, on display at Praise Shadows Art Gallery.

Online • Mar 08, 2022

At Praise Shadows, Pandemic Ennui: All Lit Up

Review by Jessica Shearer

Online • Mar 06, 2022

It’s My Infinite Indigenous Queer Love: In Conversation with Jeffrey Gibson

Interview by Mary McNeil

Glenn Kaino's installation displayed in a room with a wooden floor, hanging sculptural work, and a series of lights.

Online • Feb 26, 2022

Connecting Histories: Glenn Kaino’s “In the Light of a Shadow” at MASS MoCA

Review by Marcus Civin

Online • Feb 01, 2022

Now + There’s Visit to New Orleans for Prospect.5 Inspires a Model for a More Collaborative Art City in Boston

Critical Perspective by Leah Triplett Harrington

Online • Dec 30, 2021

Looking Back: Our Favorite Art Happenings of 2021

Feature by BAR Editorial

Jessica Roseman is photographed behind blossoming purple flowers.

Online • Dec 07, 2021

Choreographing the Personal: A Profile of Jessica Roseman

Profile by Ilya Vidrin

Gift ideas, including lipstick, a book, a bag, and apparel, featured against a rose colored background.

Online • Dec 01, 2021

The 2021 Holiday Gift Guide

Feature by BAR Editorial

A couple named Cam and Jared pictured in the window of a house, a green plant appearing below.

Online • Nov 15, 2021

Communing in Isolation: Rania Matar’s Window Portraits

Review by Shuchi Saraswat

Online • Nov 05, 2021

Wish You Were Here: Paola de la Calle’s Window Display Blends History and Blurs Borders

Review by Knar Bedian

A flyer featuring white text set against a purple background.

Online • Oct 30, 2021

Boston Ujima Project's Ashe Ashe Cultural Assembly is Building a Collaborative Arts Economy

Interview by BAR Editorial

Ekua Holmes, wearing gloves, kneels over a garden, beside a pot of purple flowers.

Online • Oct 24, 2021

The Radical Act of Growing a Plant: Garden for Boston at the MFA

Review by Paige Curtis

Two women read a copy of Boston Art Review Issue 07 while at the magazine's release party.

Online • Oct 19, 2021

Issue 07: Rooting Launch Event Recap

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Whimsical green and blue paintings by Tamara Gonzales cover the floor and walls of the gallery space.

Online • Sep 27, 2021

In a Painterly Field: Tamara Gonzales’s "Cosmic Recess" at Providence College Galleries

Review by Leah Triplett Harrington

Online • Sep 01, 2021

Announcing the Collective Futures Fund 2021 Grantees

Announcement

Online • Aug 30, 2021

Roots of Revolution and Diaspora in Firelei Báez’s ICA Watershed Installation

Review by Elizabeth S. Hawley

A series of signs hang from the ceiling displaying messages, while a woman walks pass them on the left hand side of the photo.

Online • Jul 02, 2021

Looking Back: A Case for Co-Dreaming at Northeastern's Gallery 360

Review by Gina Lindner

A woman wearing a dazzling costume smiles and raises her arms joyously in the air.

Online • Jun 17, 2021

Race, Space, and Place: Getting Hyper-Local for Juneteenth in Boston

Feature by Abena Osei Duker

Online • Jun 05, 2021

Home is a Place Called Bella

Specialty Column by Christopher Streat

Michael C. Thorpe sits cross-legged in front of brightly colored quilted designs, hanging from the wall.

Online • May 27, 2021

Last Chance: Michael C. Thorpe On Quilting a Dream

Interview by Jameson Johnson

A sound system rests on rocks outside near the Mystic River.

Online • May 15, 2021

Take a River Walk with the “Sound on Mystic” Audio Installation

Feature by Ashira Morris

Erin Genia is wearing a green and blue mask, standing in front of the water and a scene of city buildings.

Online • May 04, 2021

Dislodging the Cultural Infrastructure of Indigenous Peoples' Dispossession

Critical Perspective by Erin Genia, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate

Figures are building boldly colored flower benches in a workshop space.

Online • Apr 27, 2021

Arts to the Front for Boston Design Week

Feature by BAR Editorial

A portrait of Sonya Clark, wearing green, in her studio, standing in front of black and white artworks.

Online • Apr 13, 2021

Sonya Clark Pulls on the Threads of History

Interview by Olivia Kiers

Evelyn Rydz is wearing a denim jacket, hunched over a work of art she is developing in her studio.

Online • Mar 23, 2021

Observation and Imagination: The Art of Evelyn Rydz

Profile by Jacqueline Houton

Cicely Carew sits, smiling, in front of a lush, colorful work of art she has created, in her Waltham studio.

Online • Mar 21, 2021

To Be a Painting: On What is Bitter and What is Sweet with Cicely Carew

Interview by Mallory Ruymann

Online • Mar 16, 2021

Making Space for Gen Z: The Impact of Young Voices in Community Art Initiatives

Critical Perspective by Asiyah Herrera

Works of art by Jibade-Khalil Huffman, including one representing rainbows, appear on the white walls of the gallery.

Online • Mar 09, 2021

Poetry, Pixels, and Posthumanism: Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s "Now That I Can Dance" at Tufts University Art Galleries

Review by Maya Rubio

Online • Mar 08, 2021

In Conversation With Kai Grant: A Champion of Roxbury

Interview by Margo Gabriel

Eben Haines and Delaney Dameron are sitting beside the miniature Shelter in Place Gallery model.

Online • Mar 04, 2021

Tiny Art for Uncertain Futures: A Conversation with Eben Haines of Shelter in Place Gallery

Interview by Jameson Johnson

Heidi Whitman's installation features ropes dangling from the ceiling, while red, orange, and black hued art takes form on one side of the wall.

Online • Feb 27, 2021

“Wayfinding” Exhibition Expands the Critical Possibilities of Historical Maps

Review by Shana Garr

The red brick building of MAAM, displaying red and pink signs in the arched windows.

Online • Feb 22, 2021

Yes MAAM: A Game-Changing Revamp Yields Boston's First Free Contemporary Art Museum

Review by Jacqueline Houton

Gabriel Sosa's billboard, featuring Spanish text in orange, is positioned on top of Grove Hall Pizza.

Online • Feb 14, 2021

Words: What Are They Good For?

Interview by Danielle Adams

Ayana Mack is at her home studio, seated beside two paintings of women's faces, while a collection of artwork appears on the wall to the right.

Online • Feb 12, 2021

Face to Face With Ayana Mack: Creating Images of Power and Purpose

Profile by Jacquinn Sinclair

A child holds up a Black Lives Matter sign, while standing on green grass.

Online • Feb 02, 2021

Subversive Celebration: Photography of Black Joy and Healing in a Summer of Reckoning

Critical Perspective by Jonathan Rowe

A stack of blue and pink magazines.

Online • Jan 26, 2021

Soothsaying from the Print Crypt

Feature by John Arvanitis

Swirling black and white images emerge in an artwork by Beatrice Modisett.

Online • Dec 29, 2020

Sensing Growth in the Cracks: Beatrice Modisett at Montserrat College of Art Galleries

Review by Lydia Gordon

Twelve photographs are assembled on the wall, with a loose print appearing at the bottom of the scene.

Online • Dec 04, 2020

A Dance Between Past and Present: Chantal Zakari’s “A Work in Progress”

Review by Karolina Hac

A colorful abstract sculpture and a photograph of individuals swimming in a pool at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery.

Online • Dec 01, 2020

Supporting Boston-Based Artists and Makers This Holiday Season

Feature by Jameson Johnson

A bright sunflower and the image of a rainbow color wheel are featured in Maria Molteni's work.

Online • Sep 01, 2020

Fitchburg Art Museum Explores Mortality and Remembrance With “After Spiritualism”

Review by Daria Semco

Online • Aug 20, 2020

Experimental Art Leaves the Museum and Heads for the Drive-In

Review by Jacquinn Sinclair

Works are displayed in the window of La Brasa restaurant, while a road closing sign appears on the street nearby.

Online • Aug 03, 2020

As Boston Cautiously Reopens, AREA CODE Art Fair Brings Art Back to the City

Review by Karolina Hac

A portrait of Yu-Wen Wu, posed in front of colorful works.

Online • Jul 21, 2020

The Communal Intimacy of Public Art: In Conversation with Yu-Wen Wu

Interview by Gina Lindner

Tschabalala Self is in her studio, poised in front of a work that features that image of a woman's bare form.

Online • Jul 15, 2020

Tschabalala Self Hardens the Medium

Interview by Annie Armstrong

Mar Parrilla wears blue while performing a movement work.

Online • Jun 23, 2020

Movement Toward Another World: In Conversation With Mar Parrilla

Interview by Theresa Mitchell

An illustration of two figures, connected by the cord from one individual's headphones.

Online • Jun 17, 2020

COVID Conversations: Dee Diggs and Cierra Peters

Interview by Dee Diggs

Online • May 27, 2020

COVID Conversations: Rachel Kay and Courtney Stock

Interview

A sculpture represents an individual's head, with a green COVID-19 mask appearing on the lower half of the face.

Online • May 21, 2020

Artists Are Essential Workers

Critical Perspective by Amy Halliday

A navy blue police uniform by Chris Burden is on display.

Online • Apr 28, 2020

In "Walls Turned Sideways" Forty Artists Tackle America's Criminal Justice System

Review by Shana Garr

The orange glow of an installation lights the exhibition space in the FeministFuturist show.

Online • Apr 18, 2020

At Boston Center for the Arts, "FeministFuturist" Takes to the Web

Review by Karolina Hac

Online • Mar 20, 2020

Art in the Time of COVID-19: Resources, Opportunities, and Ideas for our Community

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Online • Mar 09, 2020

Spacetime (x,y,z + t): Traversing Time and Space through Technology and Art

Review by Jacquinn Sinclair

Headshots of the CreateWell Fund Artist Awardees.

Online • Feb 28, 2020

The CreateWell Fund Announces 2019-2021 Awardees

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Online • Feb 19, 2020

Digital Domain: In Conversation With Juan Obando

Interview by Isabella Achenbach

Headshots of Malkit Shoshan and Judy Norsigian.

Online • Feb 11, 2020

2020 Talk Series Organized by Claire Barliant, Daisy Nam, and Meg Rotzel is Announced

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Colorful works by Christopher Schade represent passing islands.

Online • Feb 02, 2020

The Sphinx Northeast Returns to Boston With Christopher Schade's "Passing Islands"

Review by Katy Diamond Hamer

Online • Dec 31, 2019

An Exhibition on Migration Hits Home at the ICA

Review by Jacqueline Houton

A large, colorful cloth tipi with collapsible metal support poles stands tall.

Online • Dec 13, 2019

At Emerson Contemporary, an Immersive Installation Provides an Imagined Glimpse of our Future Earth

Review by Mary Morris Evans

A portrait of Marsha Nouritz Odabashian in front of a work of art.

Online • Dec 12, 2019

Stirring the Pot with Marsha Nouritza Odabashian

Interview by Nancy Agabian

Katarina Burin and Farhad Mirza have designed a colorful model of a space.

Online • Dec 05, 2019

Remembering as a Collaborative Act: In Conversation With Katarina Burin and Farhad Mirza

Interview by Robert Moeller

Visitors explore the Boston Art Book Fair at the Cyclorama, where large, green, inflatable structures are on display.

Online • Nov 06, 2019

Not to be Missed: The Boston Art Book Fair is Back for a Third Year

Announcement by Jameson Johnson

Shaka Dendy sits in front of multi-colored, stacked crates.

Online • Nov 04, 2019

On Basketball, Community, and Race: In Conversation with Shaka Dendy

Interview

Visitors gather near a colorful, overhanging banner, while a fountain stands in the background.

Online • Oct 09, 2019

Unseen Dimensions of Public Space: Disrupting Colonial Narratives

Critical Perspective by Erin Genia, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate

Online • Oct 03, 2019

New Movement: Boston Exhibition Looks Closely at a World in Motion

Review by Argyro Nicolaou

An abundance of colorful, inflatable figures hanging in the Cyclorama.

Online • Sep 11, 2019

A Joy Ride with Nick Cave

Interview by Jacqueline Houton

Online • Sep 03, 2019

Fragments of Antarctica: In Conversation with Georgie Friedman

Interview by Gina Lindner

Tory Fair stands over a table in her studio, looking at sculpture works.

Online • Aug 07, 2019

Process, Practice, and Presence: Looking Back with Tory Fair

Interview by Jameson Johnson

Silvia Lopez Chavez works on a mural project, while a red ladder appears behind her.

Online • Jun 28, 2019

Street Theory Presents Eight Artists, Nine Murals, and One Highway Underpass

Review by Dan Atkinson

An artwork by Pelle Cass displays swimmers diving into a pool and assembled on a staircase nearby.

Online • May 23, 2019

Pelle Cass Taught Me How To Like Sports

Interview by Annie Armstrong

During a performance at the Museum of Fine Arts, a crowd of people gathers around in a celebratory rebirthing of the lost art of the quipu.

Online • May 14, 2019

Weaving With the Thread of Time: In Conversation with Cecilia Vicuña

Interview by Jameson Johnson

In Maya Erdelyi's work, a black silhouette of a figure appears in front of a bright green landscape.

Online • Apr 19, 2019

Art in Action at the BCA Mills Gallery: Maya Erdelyi on the Magic of Animation

Profile by Jacqueline Houton

Online • Apr 02, 2019

Kapwani Kiwanga: Surveillance and the Limits of Recognition at The MIT List

Review by Denis Mwaura

The black and white image of a woman standing in front of a rural scene.

Online • Feb 22, 2019

Not Time, But Feeling is Presented in Suara Welitoff's "Right Now This Moment"

Review by Theresa Mitchell

Three artworks display torsos of figures, their faces covered by pink shapes displaying text.

Online • Feb 04, 2019

Poetic Response: Stephanie Woods' Art Challenges Racial Perception and Performance

Review by Laura Neal

Online • Nov 30, 2018

Afterlife in Detroit: The Story of a Man, an Egg, and a Train Station

Profile by Isabella Achenbach

Online • Nov 22, 2018

Taking Away the Edges: Lavaughan Jenkins at Suffolk University Gallery

Review by Karolina Hac

Against the far wall of the gallery space, the figure of a woman's form, made from foam, acrylic resin and thermal adhesive, is displayed, alongside other works.

Online • Nov 09, 2018

LaKela Brown and Ruby Sky Stiler at Providence College Galleries

Review by Elizabeth Corkery

Works of American outsider art, such as one displaying the image of an eagle set against red, white, and blue stripes, appear on the walls of the gallery space.

Online • Nov 05, 2018

Sensuous Experiences with Art on The Margins: American Outsider Art at Tufts University

Review by Denis Mwaura

Online • Nov 01, 2018

"Under a Dismal Boston Skyline ": An Era Not Forgotten

Review by Heather Kapplow

Stephanie Cardon sits on the orange, embroidered netting featured in her installation.

Online • Oct 27, 2018

Stephanie Cardon’s Massive Installation Calls for Climate Action At the Entrance to The Prudential Center

Interview by Brandi Griffin

A poster for the Media_Rins event at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Online • Oct 19, 2018

Media_Rins Brings Post-Internet to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Quick Bit by Allison Miller

Visitors gather around a table to see items at the Boston Art Book Fair.

Online • Oct 12, 2018

Inside the Second Annual Boston Art Book Fair

Interview by Jameson Johnson

A triangular structure has lettering spelling the word "forest," while appearing in the woods.

Online • Oct 08, 2018

A Farewell Trail: The "Hemlock Hospice"

Critical Perspective by Sophie Kissinger

Fujiko Nakaya emerges in a scene of lush greenery and fog.

Online • Sep 16, 2018

A Stage for Emergence: Fujiko Nakaya’s Installations Reveal Fog as a Sculptural Medium

Review by Jameson Johnson

The exterior of the ICA Watershed, featuring lettering on the front of the strucutre, and an entrance.

Online • Sep 03, 2018

Inside The Watershed: ICA Boston Sails Across the Harbor

Feature by Olivia Kiers

Ankana stands in front of a shrine she made, which features post-it notes and a fabric work hanging from the wall.

Online • Aug 26, 2018

The Dialectic Nature of Shrines at Dorchester Art Project

Feature by Olivia Deng

Beach workers carrying tools walk outside a bright red post office building.

Online • Jul 03, 2018

Estelas de María: Blind Eye of the Storm

Review by Frank Redner

Online • Jun 20, 2018

Suara Welitoff​'s ​"The Feeling of a Feeling" at Anthony Greaney

Review by Wesley Simon

Tomek Sadurski is photographed in front of an abstract image featuring black designs.

Online • Jun 03, 2018

In Conversation: Tomek Sadurski on "NAVIGATORS" and "TIDES"

Interview by Phil Zminda

An installation emerges in an outdoor scene of a lush forest with a pond.

Online • Jun 03, 2018

"Beyond Boundaries" at Riverway Park

Quick Bit by Phil Zminda

Photographs by Yorgos Efthymiadis appear on a white refrigerator.

Online • Jun 03, 2018

Somerville's Kitchen Show

Review by BAR Editorial

Two figures seated at a table hold hands, a guitar appearing by the wall behind them.

Online • May 27, 2018

Making Room: How Boston’s Emerging Artists Carve Space for Themselves

Feature by Phil Zminda

A woman exercises against an orange background in a video still.

Online • May 25, 2018

In Search of Coalescence at SMFA Tufts

Review by BAR Editorial

Online • May 09, 2018

Between Frontiers: In Conversation with Kylie Manning

Interview by Lauren Pellerano Gomez

A figure wears a yellow headpiece and a pink smock, while watching a screen positioned on the wall.

Online • May 09, 2018

Event Recap: ORGANIZER // ORGANIZING // ORGANIZED

Quick Bit by BAR Editorial

Image of a white gallery wall with the title and description of the exhibition on the left and two portraits on the right.

Online • Apr 26, 2018

Beyond Regionalism: A Decolonial Atlas at Tufts University Art Gallery

Review by Lizi Ham

Online • Apr 25, 2018

Art In a Digital Landscape: In Conversation with Judith Barry

Interview by Jameson Johnson

Image of one of the walls in the gallery with three paintings hung on the left and four clothing items hung on the right. Foregrounded on the floor is a basketball made out of cloth.

Online • Apr 20, 2018

“Code-Stitch: Resistance in Apparel” at How's Howard Gallery

Review by Kevin Le Blanc

Image of the interior of a device in a glass cube on a white podium, against a white wall.

Online • Apr 12, 2018

Internet on View: Trevor Paglen at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

Review by Kate McBride

Image of one of Solei's colorful works. A woman in red holds up a small disco ball, and the background is splattered and diluted paint in the form of puddles, lines, and specks against a cream-over-blue layer.

Online • Mar 21, 2018

Solei's Trace at Piano Craft Gallery

Review by Saritha Ramakrishna

Two side-by-side photographs join together to make one image, with small text saying "this is a stolen t-shirt" on the left side and larger text saying "Contraband" on the right. A white car is in the background of both images, with a person wearing a t-shirt in the foreground. The person is on the edge of the frame in the image to the left, and at the center of the frame in the image to the right.

Online • Mar 08, 2018

In Conversation: Fort5 Talks Contraband

Interview by Avery Robertson

Online • Mar 03, 2018

Culture Hustlers: Art and Business as Friends not Foes?

Review by Anna Schuman

Image of a wall painted with colorful concentric circles. In the smallest middle circle is a written prompt "How do you influence?" and a bunch of colorful sticky notes are spread out throughout the wall.

Online • Mar 02, 2018

Influence X Design Conference Sheds Light on Design Accountability

Review by Robert Passas

Image from Kristin Texeira's studio. A desk with painting materials and other desk objects is foregrounds a large wall full of the artist's colorful paintings.

Online • Feb 23, 2018

Kristin Texeira Talks Color, Memory, and Abstraction at Topdrawer Boston

Review by Avery Robertson

Image of a bright red sculpture that resembles an ax on a block.

Online • Feb 15, 2018

Risqué or defiant? Killers & Thrillers at Kabinett Gallery Draws a Crowd

Review by Jule Davidoff

Image of a colorful artwork by Stephanie Todhunter. The figure is mostly rendered in pastels with gold accents and a brighter red-pink in the center around the nose and cheeks.

Online • Feb 10, 2018

Stephanie Todhunter at Abigail Ogilvy

Review by Kevin Le Blanc

Image of Hannah Fallon sewing one of her flags.

Online • Feb 06, 2018

In Conversation: Hannah Fallon with Lauren Pellerano Gomez

Interview by Lauren Pellerano Gomez

Online • Feb 05, 2018

In Residence: Creighton Baxter at CASTLEDRONE

Profile by BAR Editorial

Side by side images of colorful artworks by Ekua Holmes and Vusumuzi Maduna.

Online • Jan 31, 2018

Vusumuzi Maduna and Ekua Holmes at PRX Podcast Garage

News by Anna Schuman

Leah Eve Corbett's photography on the wall at Tres Gatos. Nearby to the right are mugs and sweeteners.

Online • Jan 28, 2018

Nonbinary at Tres Gatos Jamaica Plain

Review

Image of a white, black, and dark grey sculpture by Eleanor Cepko.

Online • Jan 18, 2018

Eleanor Cepko: Containment at AREA Gallery

Review by Anna Schuman

Two photographs side by side.

Online • Jan 15, 2018

Lines that Fade and Flutter: Proof Gallery

Review by Avery Robertson

Online • Dec 19, 2017

SanQtuary at Distillery Gallery

Review

A flyer-like collage has various images on a light background, with "Bedroom to Gallery: Accumulations of the Self" in the top left corner and "19:00-21:00 Distillery Gallery 516 E 2nd Street South Boston One night only" on the bottom right corner.

Online • Nov 29, 2017

Accumulations of the Self

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Online • May 27, 2025

Where Transit Takes Us: All Aboard for Art in New Bedford

With the Commuter Rail extension complete, six artists and cultural leaders, including Lindsay Miś, Meclina Gomes, Hendrick Hernandez-Resto, Andy Anello, Elizabeth King Stanton, and Hadis Tourikarami, share their recommendations for a visit to the South Coast’s largest city this summer.

Feature by Jacqueline Houton

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Online • May 27, 2025

Mapping the Marvelous: “Wonders of Creation” Charts the Interplay of Art, Science, and Spirit in Islamic Culture

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Online • May 22, 2025

Reflecting, Refracting, and Resetting: Maggie Stark’s “Shadow Light” at Fort Hall Gallery

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Online • May 19, 2025

Group Show “Willful Dialects” Refuses a Frame for Asian Diasporic Artists in Boston

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Online • May 29, 2025

“Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory” Calls Upon Remembrance as Act of Liberation

At the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, the exhibition presents memory as both a method and mandate for liberation, tracing the afterlives of history through photography, film, and archival intervention.

Review by Alisa Prince

Online • May 08, 2025

In Photos: The Boston Art Review Issue 14 Launch Party

On Saturday, May 3, over 600 guests joined us inside Quincy Market at Faneuil Hall to celebrate our latest print issue at our biggest party of the year.

Feature by BAR Editorial