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McDonough donates $10 million to Worcester Art Museum, largest gift of its kind in museum’s history

The donation is intended to strengthen the museum’s existing operations and endowments while fostering its future ambitions.

Sweetness, ferocity, and sparkle in portrait photos since Stonewall

This exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art mines a rich vein.

At the Peabody Essex, marvelousness made visible

Two very different photography shows both display the fantastic.

An artist’s love letter to feminist forebears

“Tory Fair: Portable Archive” is at Drive-By Projects.

Art Review
Fairy tales, video games, and hard labor in this artist’s hallucinatory films
“Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse” is on view through July 28 at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

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Looking into the darkness, at Mills Gallery
“In the Words, In the Bones,” a sobering and strangely hopeful exhibition, considers the content and consequences of cultural silence.

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Guitars, stars, and attitude

Five art exhibitions lend eyes as well as ears to music.

Art Review

Illustrating the year 1969, when rad met trad

The Norman Rockwell Museum looks at the moon landing and Woodstock and much else.

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Brilliant color, and glimmers of more

In Jodie Manasevit’s abstract canvases, the smack of incandescent color and the delicious goopiness of paint jolt you. Rubrics fall away. 

Art Review

At the ICA, more is more

Maximalism hasn’t been officially adopted by the art world. A new show makes the case why it should be.

Art Review

In Maine, a persistent vision amid the pines

A utopian art school notable mainly for its survival gets its due at the Portland Museum of Art.

Photography Review

Garry Winogrand, that master of black-and-white, was a master of color, too

A Brooklyn Museum show looks at a rarely seen side of the photographer’s work.

Photography Review

The uncommon power of Gordon Parks

A key sampling of the famed African-American photojournalist’s work is on view at Harvard University.

Art Review

At the Gardner: When some plans are bigger than others

“Big Plan: Picturing Social Reform” is interesting to look at and confusing to think about.


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