Fine Arts
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MFA Opens New Contemporary Galleries
Gift of Wyss Foundation
By: - Dec 13th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced that a suite of new galleries dedicated to modern art will open to the public on December 13. Four new spaces will be unveiled on the first floor of the Museum’s Evans Wing, each showcasing works from the 20th century that include highlights from the MFA’s collection, new acquisitions, and rarely seen loans from private holdings.
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A Wake for Woke
Trump's Assault on the Arts
By: - Dec 13th, 2025During the next five year cycle when conceiving and funding ambitious exhibitions, administrators, foundations and trustees will keep a watchful eye on potential offenses against the government’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977
ICA Boston
By: - Jan 15th, 2026Founded in 1977 by influential artist, educator, and activist Dana C. Chandler, Jr., the African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program (AAMARP) at Northeastern University is one of the few longstanding residency programs for Black artists in the United States. For nearly five decades, AAMARP has stood at the intersection of art, activism, and community.
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Yinka Shonibare's Sanctuary
Rose Art Museum
By: - Jan 16th, 2026The installation consists of 18 scaled-down replicas of historical and contemporary buildings that have served—and, in many cases, continue to serve—as places of refuge for persecuted and vulnerable groups or individuals. These structures range from ancient temples and medieval cathedrals to modern safe houses and shelters.
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Photorealism in Focus
Rose Art Museum
By: - Jan 21st, 2026Emerging in the late 1960s during an era of rapid technological change and inspired by the visual language of commercial imagery, Photorealism took shape as artists such as Richard Estes, Charles S. Bell, Ralph Goings, and others created painstakingly detailed paintings based on photographs that pushed the limits of illusion. These artists challenged traditional hierarchies between photography and painting while capturing the nuanced textures of contemporary experience.
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Art in Bloom at the MFA
A Fifty Year Tradition
By: - Jan 21st, 2026Framing Nature coincides with the 50th anniversary of Art in Bloom (May 1 through May 3, 2026). This beloved tradition pairs art with floral interpretations created by New England area garden clubs, professional floral designers, and volunteers.
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Thomas Messer and the Early Years of the ICA
Aborted Plan to Merge with the MFA
By: - Jan 21st, 2026From 1957 to 1961, Thomas Messer was director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and, for part of that time, taught modern art at Harvard. From 1961 to 1988 he was director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. For a time there was a plan to merge the ICA as the modern/ contemporary department of the MFA. The ICA was briefly housed on the second floor of the Museum School. He advised on a couple of adventurous MFA acquisitions. A contemporary department was eventually established in 1971.
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Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal
Museum of FIne Arts
By: - Jan 22nd, 2026Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal explores the origins of these popular prints— which have historically been overlooked by the art world—and their powerful impacts on Indian pop culture, religion, and society.
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Esther Bell New Clark Director
Assumes Position in July
By: - Jan 29th, 2026The Board unanimously elected Esther Bell to the position following an extensive international search. Bell will be the first woman in the Clark’s seventy-year history to serve as its director. She succeeds Olivier Meslay, who announced last September that he would be leaving the Clark and returning to his native France in 2026.
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Jodi Colella at Boston Sculptors
Dangerously Close to Home
By: - Jan 30th, 2026Jodi Colella’s rag rugs, lace doilies, and decorative hand towels flaunt quirky sayings lifted from a century’s old word game. Recontextualizing period phrases to capture the language of 21st century culture, Colella reflects today’s coded patterns of speech and cleverly bypasses polite norms.
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Sónia Almeida: Stages
At the Clark Art Institute
By: - Feb 03rd, 2026The Clark Art Institute continues its art in public spaces program in 2026 with a year-long installation presenting the work of artist Sónia Almeida (b. 1978, Lisbon; lives and works in Boston).
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ICA Director Sue Thurman
Thriving on Newbury Street
By: - Feb 13th, 2026From its inception in 1936, the Institute of Contemporary Art has endured a daunting existential struggle. As late as 1971 the Museum of Fine Arts appointed a part time curator of contemporary art. Lack of interest for modern and contemporary art resulted in a community which did not significantly support institutions, collectors, galleries and artists. The story of the ICA represents the struggle to overcome that indifference. Relocated to Newbury Street, it thrived from 1963-1968 under director Sue Thurman.
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Alexander Calder: The Nature of Movement
Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota., Florida
By: - Feb 16th, 2026After lunch, my father and I followed Calder down a short path that led to the high-ceilinged studio. which sat on a plateau where the “vultures” I’d noticed from afar, came into view as a flock of stabiles. They were mostly black, a few red, enormous and, despite their stationary nature, seemed as if they were poised to take off at any minute.
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Masiko Kamiya's Vessels
At Gallery NAGA
By: - Feb 18th, 2026In this recent series of paintings, Kamiya offers a profound visual translation of the physical self, deeply rooted in her personal experience with bilateral hip dysplasia. As this ailment has grown more acute, her focus has shifted toward a search for dependable balance within the asymmetrical relationship.
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David Hockney's California Dreaming
Subdued Met Retrospective of a Pioneer of Pop
By: - Jan 31st, 2018While described as a retrospective in eight galleries with just 60 paintings, 21 portrait drawings and five of his ground-breaking “Joiner” photo collages the David Hockney exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a bit of a tease. Now 80 when Hockney depicted homosexuality during the 1960s it was still illegal in Great Britain. He left for the laid back lifesyle of LA in 1964 and now commutes between continents. The exhibition is on view through February 25.
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Centerbeam at ZKM/Karlsruhe, Germany
Exhibition and Symposium until October 1st
By: - Aug 11th, 2017The exhibition to celebrate 'Centerbeam’s' 40 th anniversary has been open since mid May in Karlsruhe. On September 2nd ZKM will host ten representatives of the original participants on location or via skype. The symposium should deliver lively discussions of the past and perhaps a way forward to recreate 'Centerbeam,' a third time, in the near future.
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A Study in Contrast Two Museums in Lisbon
National Tile Museum and MAAT Bookend Art and Culture
By: - Dec 30th, 2017These institutions visually and physically reflected Portuguese art and culture, one embracing the nooks and crannies of history while the other exhibited a vibrant openness to contemporary urbanity.
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Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed
Riveting Selection of 43 Works at Met Breuer
By: - Jan 29th, 2018With just 43 works Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed at Met Breuer through February 4 provides a small but succinct view of his work. He was a prolific artist, creating approximately 1,750 paintings, 18,000 prints, and 4,500 watercolors, in addition to sculpture, graphic art, theater design, and photography. More than half of the works on view were part of Munch's personal collection and remained with him throughout his life.
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Dak'Art African Contemporary Art Biennale
Dakar, Senegal from May 3 - June 2
By: - Mar 16th, 2016Dak’Art 2016 is inspired by the theme “The City in the Blue (La Cité dans le jour bleu)” and will be curated by Simon Njami who was also named as the fair’s new artistic director. As inspiration from the theme, Njami selected the extract of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s poem: “Your voice cries out for the Republic - let us raise up that city in a blue daylight: Of equality for brotherly peoples. So we sing in our hearts. “We are here, Guélowar!”
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Centerbeam of CAVS/MIT Reintroduced at ZKM
40 Years Post documenta 6 at Kassel, Germany
By: - Jun 03rd, 2017The exhibition: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of 'Centerbeam,' A Performative Sculpture by CAVS, can be seen at ZKM, Karlsruhe/Germany, until October 1st. The museum is also presenting in an adjacent gallery Aldo Tambellini’s, 'Black Matters.' He was one of the 21 artists, who participated in the spectacular, collaborative and participatory outdoor sculpture.
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Guggenheim Bilbao at Twenty
An Inspiring Success Story
By: - Nov 06th, 2017The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao recently concluded a year-long celebration of its 20th anniversary under the concept "Art Changes Everything", inspired by the major changes that the city of Bilbao and its residents have experienced since the Museum's opening on October 19, 1997, while at the same time underscoring the transformational capacity of art. I felt fortunate to be able to visit this cultural treasure during a tour of the Basque region of northern Spain in late September.
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Holiday Tour of NY Museums
From MoMA to the Met
By: - Dec 10th, 2016Here is a cheat sheet of ranked museum exhibitions if you plan to be in NY for the holidays
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DeYoung Museum Celebrates Summer of Love
Special Exhibition Has Flowers in Its Hair
By: - Jul 06th, 2017The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll is celebrated at the De Young Museum in San Francisco through August 20. Fifty years ago kids from all over the nation flocked to Haight Ashberry with flowers in their hair. This amazing exhibition displays the artifacts of that phenomenon.
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MASS MoCA Expansion
To Unveil Memorial Day 2017
By: - Jul 31st, 2016Led by museum director, Joe Thompson, we joined a 'hard hat tour" of the final phase of MASS MoCA renovation and construction. The $65 million project will be completed with a Memorial Day, 2017 weekend of opening celebrations.
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Ai Weiwei Shown in Three NY Galleries
Lisson, Mary Boone and Jeffrey Deitch
By: - Dec 13th, 2016In three concurrent New York gallery exhibitions- Lisson, Mary Boone and Jeffrey Deitch- the dissident Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei, has created poignant and roiling new works. This is a massive project by arguably our greatest living artist.
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