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On New Castle Island, calling on ghosts of the Wabanaki with artist Kay WalkingStick

A new painting is named for the Native Americans who made their home here for millennia.

3 Boston artists with long careers of calling out racism

Dell M. Hamilton, Marlon Forrester, and Anthony Young have been making work for years about police violence and social justice.

They reveal as well as conceal: looking at masks as cultural artifact

Masks have a long, rich history in movies and art.

Trash or wildly inventive art? It all depends on your point of view

Rhode Island artist Tom Deininger's found-object sculptures are a huge smash on Instagram.

In Rhode Island, plumbing history’s depths with artist Ellen Gallagher
The sea provides a fluid foundation for Gallagher's work.

Boston museums may reopen soon, but will the experience be ‘diminished’?
Museums will walk a fine line between the near-militarized movement restrictions we’ve come to know in grocery stores — one-way aisles, lines on the floor — and the free-flowing contemplative experiences visitors typically crave.

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Albert Bierstadt’s idealized vision of the American west? He practiced it in the White Mountains

In 1861, the painter depicted New Hampshire's Echo Lake to dramatic effect.

‘Heartbreak all the way around.’ Flood damage presents yet another setback for SoWa gallery district

Repairs are estimated at $5 million to $10 million.

Why Bob Ross’s ‘The Joy of Painting’ is perfect pandemic television

Don't make it a quarantine self-improvement project. Just watch it.

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In 1950s Provincetown, a Black painter arrived to re-invent art history

Bob Thompson was in love with the epic sweep of classical myth and history.

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Where Norman Rockwell honed his American vision

The artist we know began to take shape on a farm in Arlington, Vt.

5 outstanding art-school grads for 2020

They graduate into a strange and unfamiliar world, starting with the virtual nature of their thesis exhibitions.

Artists put their skills to work making PPE for front-line medical workers

Creative collectives quickly found ways to produce face masks, face shields, and gowns.

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In Maine, touring the seaside setting of Winslow Homer’s breakthrough

The painter left New York in 1883 for this rugged stretch of coastline.