“If you could paint anything, what would it be?” a voice from off-screen asks. In Keaton Fox’s “Green Screen Dreams” videos, people standing painting canvases answer—and then their answer magically…Continue Reading →
A new biennial prize—the $15,000 Prilla Smith Brackett Award—aims to honor outstanding woman visual artists based in the Greater Boston area. “I’ve felt strongly for a long time of how…Continue Reading →
Brian Kennedy (pictured above)—director, president and CEO of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio since September 2010—has been named the next director of Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum. The 57-year-old…Continue Reading →
“Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press,” at Northeastern University’s Gallery 360 in Boston from Jan. 17 to March 11, 2019, presents prints by 14…Continue Reading →
“The Embrace”—a pair of monumental hugging arms—has been selected to become a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King on Boston Common as soon as next year.…Continue Reading →
The first thing you come upon at “Love Superior, a Death Supreme”—the exhibition by sisters Caitlin and Nicole Duennebier (“Nicole is three years older than me and when we were…Continue Reading →
The robot C-3PO cradles R2-D2 as in a traditional Madonna and child painting. The gangster slug Jabba the Hutt sits at the center of a “Last Supper”-ish table. Luke Skywalker…Continue Reading →
“My goal with these photographs is to capture in a single frame what it feels like to be in the middle of a Second Line,” Pableaux Johnson has said, “sandwiched…Continue Reading →
Kahlo’s riveting 1940 painting “Self-Portrait with Hummingbirds and Thorn Necklace” is all the reason you need to see “Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular” at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts from…Continue Reading →
“I know places by walking them,” Kathleen Bitetti says. For a decade and a half, the Boston artist and community organizer has been retracing the steps of Massachusetts legends Abigail…Continue Reading →