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How New York’s downtown scene set the stage for Jean-Michel Basquiat

Writer and curator Greg Tate reflects on that porous moment in music and art history.

New England’s top 10 museum stops for fall

Season highlights include Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, and a tribute to fashion's revolutionary women.

MFA’s big Basquiat show testifies to the hip-hop revolution

The show also makes the case — with joy and plenty of great music — that the post-graffiti savant didn't come out of nowhere.

Architect draws acclaim (and a $50,000 award) for research into schools for the deaf

Jeffrey Mansfield, a design director for MASS Design Group, was named a Disability Futures Fellow by the Ford and Mellon foundations.

ICA is the host institution for the 2022 US Venice Biennale entry
The museum will present work by Simone Leigh, the first Black woman to represent the United States at the prestigious exhibition.

Boston artists put domestic violence awareness on the table
One-of-a-kind plates are a tradition at the annual REACH Beyond Domestic Violence fund-raiser.

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LOVE LETTERS

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COMFORT ZONE

MFA presents findings on a sculpture and its ‘complicated history’ for Indigenous People’s Day

Associate curator Layla Bermeo will give a virtual talk on responses to Cyrus Dallin’s “Appeal to the Great Spirit.”

ART

At Kingston Gallery, a visit to verdant lands haunted by the Iron Curtain

With her new show, photographer and video artist Bonnie Donohue documents the European Green Belt.

How artist Janice Lourie, 90, became a trailblazing computer scientist at IBM

An exhibition at Tufts weaves her creative work with her legacy in software development.

Colorful stories about Harvard’s vast pigment collection

Harvard University Art Museums has a new online audio tour of its Forbes Pigment Collection.

Pictures of success for public figures and former gang members

In the Seaport, dozens of portraits tell a singular story about our shared humanity.

Indoor galleries reopen Thursday at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

Kicking things off are a pair of exhibitions: “Visionary New England” and “Transcendental Modernism.”

‘Tasteful Boston’ paintings are like pick-me-ups for the food scene

The Downtown Boston Business Improvement District enlisted artists to cover utility boxes with tributes to local culinary culture.