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Open to anybody feeling overwhelmed, Chelvanaya Gabriel's Creative Dialogue Series focuses on recovery through nonverbal expression.

Artist creates a space for healing on Zoom: ‘You’re stepping into resilience just by showing up’

Open to anybody feeling overwhelmed, Chelvanaya Gabriel's Creative Dialogue Series focuses on recovery through nonverbal expression.

How children’s books carry on the struggle for civil rights

A show at the Eric Carle Museum features more than 40 illustrations, capturing events from the 1960s to the present.

MFA’s Netherlandish art center raises difficult questions. And it hasn’t even opened yet

A four-day symposium digs into connections between the trans-Atlantic slave trade and museum's vast trove of 17th-century Dutch art.

A painter finds Boston Public Garden bursting with birdsong

Mike Glier captures patterned whistles and screeches in a show at Krakow Witkin Gallery.

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The museum's façade features public awareness posters by contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems.
At the MFA, artist posters call out COVID’s uneven toll
The museum’s façade features public awareness posters by contemporary artist Carrie Mae Weems.

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Bellini’s "St. Francis in the Desert" is displayed at the Frick Madison in isolation, paired with one of Marcel Breuer's trapezoidal windows.
Concrete brings clarity to New York City’s opulent Frick Collection
The art shines in a temporary location at the Whitney Museum's old building on Madison Avenue.

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ART
Yuri Shimojo's “Universal Stain,” on view at Praise Shadows Art Gallery.

At Praise Shadows, Yuri Shimojo paintings give shape to lives lived and lost

The “Memento Mori” series was created after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

MURRAY WHYTE
Walter J. Hood's "Black Towers/Black Power," on view at the Museum of Modern Art.

What if American cities were built for Blackness?

A MoMA show confronts brick-and-mortar manifestations of racism while imagining new possibilities for architecture.

ART
Board chair Ellyn Moller cleaned some vitrines at Milton Art Museum's new location in Brockton.

With a ‘bit of kismet,’ Milton Art Museum comes back to life in Brockton

The big-name collection was built by Milton's 20th-century "traders, bankers, and industrialists."

Ekene Ijeoma's information-based projects include the Black Mobility and Safety Seminar series.

Art is a bridge ‘between facts and feelings’ for MIT’s Ekene Ijeoma

The artist's information-based projects include the Black Mobility and Safety Seminar series.

MURRAY WHYTE
Masterpieces of Egyptian Sculpture from the Pyramid Age at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

At the MFA, new galleries bring visitors eye to eye with ancient Egypt

The museum just opened the first phase of a long-awaited do-over for its storied collection.

GALLERIES
Hannah Wilke's "Untitled (Flowers)"

Where Hannah Wilke’s feminist art flowered into friendship

A solo exhibition at LaiSun Keane features works owned by a patron and private collector.

ARTS
Julie Weitz’s “Golem v. Golem” photo installation graces the façade of Beacon Hill's Vilna Shul Jewish center.

In Beacon Hill, the Golem rises as ‘a protector of all people’ for Passover

Julie Weitz’s “Golem v. Golem” photo installation graces the façade of Beacon Hill's Vilna Shul Jewish center.

OUTDOORS
More than 120 residences are festooned with original artwork for the first annual YardArt Watertown.

Imagination reigns on the lawns of Watertown with YardArt project

More than 120 residences are festooned with original artwork for the inaugural YardArt Watertown.