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At the new MoMA, African Americans and women get better play... but hopefully there’s more to come

The legendary museum cut a narrow line through art history. It now cuts a broader swath, with more to come.

As screenshots proliferate, private conversations are for public consumption

Screenshots have become a fundamental unit of currency in the Full Disclosure economy.

At the deCordova museum, finding nature and artifice in ‘All the Marvelous Surfaces’ photography show

Karl Blossfeldt’s plant studies are the launching point for the new show.

Three jazz photography shows where what you see is what you hear

The Museum of African American History and Harvard’s Cooper Gallery showcase jazz photography.

Galleries | Cate McQuaid
Photographer Shellburne Thurber finds beautiful glimmers, bursts of light in her family’s New Hampshire lake house
Light and shadow move through this gorgeous installation at Krakow Witkin Gallery.

Classical Notes | David Weininger
Conductor started Boston ensemble for musicians with mental illness: ‘I wanted to form an orchestra of people like me’
Ronald Braunstein left the “rat race” of conducting to launch the Me2/Orchestra in 2011.

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7 New England museums focused on one artist

From Edward Gorey to Norman Rockwell, individual artists are soloists and stars at these small museums.

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At Brown University, ‘Fertile Ground’ exhibition rethinks the art world’s romance with Mother Nature

Women of color find oppression and grief where male artists traditionally found mystery and desire.

Meet the ‘dogged, tenacious champion’ who spent 11 years building Boston’s newest art museum

Lisa Tung envisioned a museum on the grounds of MassArt, a place to train a new generation of museum professionals.

@LArge | Michael Andor Brodeur

‘Untitled Goose Game’ achieved hit video game status by unleashing our inner jerk

Waddling into the quiet, malicious, metaphorical magic of “Untitled Goose Game.”

At the Gardner Museum, seven favorites from 25 years of artists-in-residence

“In the Company of Artists” celebrates the museum’s residency program with an exhibition of highlights.

‘I felt it wasn’t good enough’: In her 90s, a Massachusetts artist is finally ready for her first solo show

It took a lifetime to convince Avital Sagalyn to share her work.

New England’s most fascinating museum shows for fall

A packed season brings reappraisals of all-American favorites and solo shows for tomorrow’s art stars.

Art Review

Yale exhibition celebrates John Ruskin, the most titanic of Victorian titans

“Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin” observes the great critic’s bicentenary.


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