Fine Arts
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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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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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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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Decentering Whiteness
A Museum Makeover
By: - Dec 12th, 2025A recovering art critic once asked after reading the 1619 Project, “Why don’t you hate all white people?” I asked, “What is a white person anyway?” We realized our identities are far more complex than the containers imposed on us. Whiteness is a burden, built on supremacy, nationalism, colonialism, slavery, and global violence.
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Ginny Williams, Art Whisperer
A Moving Film
By: - Dec 10th, 2025Director Flemming Fynsk's moving film The Art Whisperer is in contention for awards this year. Its subject, Ginny Williams, was an art collector and gallery owner of remarkable instinct and vision.
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Clark Art Institute
Announces 2026 Season
By: - Dec 09th, 2025The Clark Art Institute announces its exhibition schedule through 2026. The lineup includes the first public presentation of the Aso O. Tavitian Collection with an exhibition featuring selected highlights from the 331 works of art that were given to the Clark in 2024.
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Patricia Hills: Art World Feminist
A Lively and Insightful Memoir
By: - Dec 06th, 2025Now in her late 80s. Patricia Hills overcame numerous obstacles to become one of the leading scholars and curators of American art. I knew her as a radical leftist feminist at Boston University. This intriguing and insightful memoir chronicles that daunting journey. The book conflates her life as wife and mother with struggles in academia which regarded the study of American art as "too easy." As a force majeure she trained a generation of Americanist scholars and curators.
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Jared Abner Hauntology
Boston's HallSpace
By: - Dec 03rd, 2025HallSpace presents Hauntology an exhibition of wood sculpture by Jared Abner. This is Abner’s first solo exhibition at HallSpace. In 2021, he was in a 2-person show.
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Susan Cross of MASS MoCA
Appointed Director of Curatorial Affairs
By: - Dec 01st, 2025Susan Cross has been appointed to the new position of Director of Curatorial Affairs at MASS MoCA following a nationwide search.
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Peabody Essex Museum
19th Century Sculptor Edmonia Lewis
By: - Nov 24th, 2025The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents the first major retrospective exhibition of the work of acclaimed 19th-century Black and Indigenous sculptor Edmonia Lewis. 30 sculptures by Lewis from public and private collections across the United States and abroad will be brought together with a number of additional objects in a range of media, giving visitors an opportunity to learn of Lewis’ mastery of marble and her remarkable, storied life.
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Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70
At the Clark Art Institute
By: - Nov 17th, 2025The Clark Art Institute presents an exhibition on mid-nineteenth-century French artists who looked beyond realistic subject matter. Their work encompasses the Gothic nostalgia of architectural photography, the social critique embedded in searing allegorical illustrations, and the literary connections with fantastical art. Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70 i
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The New England Experimental Art Group
Gloucester"s Cosmos Gallery
By: - Nov 17th, 2025COSMOS Gallery’s Unexpected #25 – Unwrapped will feature numerous and diverse artwork by The New England Experimental Art Group. The group is renowned for their innovative pursuit of contemporary art, with no constraints on technique or materials.
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Cape Ann Museum Taken for Granite
Hammers on Stone: The Granite Industry & Cape Ann
By: - Nov 16th, 2025There is a judicious balance between tools and ephemera of the industry as well as a superb and insightful mix of works from the museum’s collection that further enhance and illustrate this history. Most intriguing was the manner in which granite and the quarries inspired artists.
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Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea
Blockbuster Reopens Cape Ann Museum in June
By: - Nov 16th, 2025Building on the extraordinary momentum and record attendance generated by the 2023 exhibition Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape, the Cape Ann Museum is pleased to announce a new landmark exhibition, Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea, on view from June 30 through September 27, 2026.
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2025 Boston Artadia Awards
Awardees: Sónia Almeida, Brittni Ann Harvey, and Sopheak Sam.
By: - Nov 06th, 2025Artadia, a non-profit grantmaking organization and nationwide community of visual artists, curators, and patrons, announces the 2025 Boston Artadia Awardees: Sónia Almeida, the Wagner Foundation Boston Artadia Award recipient; Brittni Ann Harvey; and Sopheak Sam.
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The Clark Art Institute Appoints Lara Yeager-Crasselt
Aso O. Tavitian Curator of Early Modern European Painting and Sculpture.
By: - Nov 05th, 2025The Clark Art Institute announces that Lara Yeager-Crasselt has been appointed to serve as the first Aso O. Tavitian Curator of Early Modern European Painting and Sculpture.
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Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Publishes a Critical Study of American Art
Rethinking American Art: Collectors, Critics, and the Changing Canon
By: - Nov 02nd, 2025Nobody but Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. could have written such a remarkable book. Drawing on a lifetime as a curator and scholar he has provided a sweeping critical analysis of the field of American Art from Colonial times through the present. With complete authority he rampages through an intriguingly well written and argued book that pulls no punches in telling it like it is.
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Mario Diacono 1930-2025
Legendary Italian Born Boston Gallerist
By: - Oct 30th, 2025In every sense Marion Diacono, who died today, was truly unique and remarkable. As a gallerist he had a deep and lasting impact but few of the A list works he showed remained in Boston. Italian born with a global vision his program was light years out of reach for earth bound and generally reactionary collectors, curators and critics. While they came to look mostly collectors failed to open their wallets. There were token sales to the MFA and at that time the ICA did not collect.
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MFA Returns Pots to Family of Enslaved Potter
David Drake Recognized as an American Master
By: - Oct 29th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David?Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet. The Museum has restored ownership of both works, returning one to Drake’s family and purchasing the other back.
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Gabrielle Munter at Guggenheim Museum
First Major Exhibition in Thirty Years
By: - Oct 29th, 2025Gabriele Münter: Contours of a World will focus on her heightened Expressionist production from around 1908 to 1920, while also highlighting her later developments. The presentation will comprise some sixty paintings and nineteen of her early photographs across three galleries.
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Acquisition and Cultural Stewardship
Non-Weestern Art Objects in American Art Museums
By: - Oct 28th, 2025Resulting from Colonialism and looting some 90% of traditional African art is not to be found in Africa. Only recently has there been an awareness of this inequity. Noah Kane-Smalls is an administrator at Williams College Art Museum with some 20 years in the field. Here with passion and precision he lays out the issues and what needs to be done.
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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Four New Exhibitions
By: - Oct 24th, 2025Four new exhibits open at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center on Saturday, Nov. 15. The new exhibits include a tribute to the late art historian Meyer Schapiro and solo shows featuring Erika Ranee, Elliott Katz, and Ray Materson.“Singing in Unison, Part 13: Homage to Meyer Schapiro” was conceived by Phong H. Bui, Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Brooklyn Rail, a prolific curator and leading figure in contemporary American art and culture.
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Time at the Aurora Archive(s)
Lively Mix at Former Great Barrington Train Station
By: - Oct 24th, 2025The Great Barrington Station House has never felt this alive. Aurora Archive(s) presents “Time” as a curated experience merging art, design, and fashion into one immersive environment. Beyond the sharp mix of global fashion, avant-garde art, and niche jewelry, the transformation of the station itself adds another layer of brilliance to unpack. It's culture on culture.
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Dawn Nelson All in the Same Boat Now
At Future Labs in North Adams
By: - Oct 22nd, 2025This exhibition contains stories on video and artwork inspired by ancestors created and told by myself, and my family, friends, and neighbors. We all come with our personal stories. I began exploring my own story in my artwork through a 2024 project entitled The Little Red House.
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Ecologies of the In\between
Gallery 51 in North Adams
By: - Oct 16th, 2025Distancing itself from apocalyptic rhetoric, the in\between reminds us that ends and beginnings coexist, ecologically. The exhibition brings together four artists — Johanna Hedva, CAConrad, Kelsey Shultis, and Bayo Akomolafe — whose work collectively moves across and between forms — drawing, painting, sculpture, poetry, sound — in an embrace of pluralities, thresholds, and portals.
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