“For more than 40 years I have been a painter of people, looking closely at their faces and what they reveal,” Laura Chasman writes of her current exhibition “Barely Visible”…Continue Reading →
In “Small Worlds: Miniatures in Contemporary Art”—at the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art in Burlington from Feb. 13 to May 10, 2019—artists adopt the techniques of dioramas, model…Continue Reading →
“Once I saw my drawings move, it was a big magical connection,” Cambridge animator Karen Aqua told The Boston Globe in 1994. “It is a really addicting experience, to see…Continue Reading →
For the past decade, Greg Cook, the editor of Wonderland, has been painting large banners—used in parades and festivals and as temporary murals in Malden, Somerville, Providence, Beverly, Gloucester and…Continue Reading →
Families of fox and bears and deer meander around the brick exterior of Arlington’s Fox Library in Eileen de Rosas’s temporary mural, which went up in December. A school of…Continue Reading →
“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 →