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At the ICA’s 2019 Foster Prize exhibition, an artist breaks out with ‘A Father’s Lullaby’

The biennial prize selected four Boston-area artists, with one clear standout.

At the Wadsworth Atheneum, art by African-Americans rejoices in the sacred

“Afrocosmologies: American Reflections" sits like a beating heart at the juncture of several major historical arteries: religion, art, and American history.

Like a time capsule, 1970s photos revel in Miami Beach’s tight-knit community of Jewish retirees

At the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Andy Sweet’s exuberant images capture a glorious moment in time.

At the Worcester Art Museum, an unflinching look at maternity and childbirth

Otto Dix’s pregnant nudes are paired with photographs from the delivery room.

Boston’s Illuminus Festival lights up the Financial District with socially minded art
Just in time for the holidays, high-tech installations tackle everything from gender to criminal justice.

VISUAL ARTS
At the Portland Art Museum, a hit show raises hard questions about N.C. Wyeth
The beloved illustrator enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist. Did it kill his dream of being taken seriously?

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GALLERIES

At North Hill retirement community, an artist riffs on whimsical Mexican folk figures

Nan Hass Feldman's antic paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works were inspired by a visit to a museum in Oaxaca, Mexico.

ART REVIEW

In Portland, art star Ragnar Kjartansson sets capitalism ablaze with ‘Scenes From Western Culture’

These slickly produced videos have little in common with fan favorite ‘The Visitors.’

At the Davis Museum, Fatimah Tuggar uses tech to deprogram stereotypes

The artist deploys computers and collage techniques to challenge old thinking on work, class, and culture.

ART REVIEW

At the Peabody Essex, a bystander to art history steps into the limelight

Hans Hofmann doesn’t have the household name of his Abstract Expressionist peers. But what would they have been without him?

Currier Museum of Art now owns two Frank Lloyd Wright houses

Both homes are on the same street in Manchester, N.H.

At the deCordova, unearthing a connection with the ‘beautiful and frightening’ flow of water

Andy Goldsworthy has a major new piece at the deCordova called "Rivers and Tides"

At the Fitchburg Art Museum, Daniela Rivera digs deep into disaster

This year’s Rappaport Prize winner channels her Chilean heritage. But the issues she embraces embody catastrophes not bound by any border.

At Emerson College, a sci-fi art show imagines the world’s plundered but peaceful future

New Mexico artist Cannupa Hanska Luger takes visitors to a time after capitalism and colonialism.