The Bruce Museum

The Bruce Museum is a world-class institution that offers a changing array of exceptional exhibitions and educational programs that cultivate discovery and wonder through the power of art and science. Opening November 9: Nature’s Impressions: The Modernist Landscape. Opening November 16: The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark. Ongoing: Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects. Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination. Hockney/Origins: Works from the Roy B. and Edith J. Simpson Collection. Conservation Through the Arts: Celebrating the Federal Duck Stamp. Tara Donovan: Aggregations. Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 43. The Robert R. Wiener Mineral Gallery. Permanent Science Galleries: Natural Cycles Shape our Land. Admission: Adults $20, Students/Sr. Citizens $15.

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Burlington City Arts

A contemporary art gallery with up to three floors of exhibition space, hosting new exhibitions every fall, winter/spring, and summer, on Burlington’s iconic Church Street Marketplace. Through February 1, 2025: Passages: Identity, Memory, and Transformation, a group of contemporary artists who embrace themes of journey and transformation in their art. Through January 18, 2025: Between the Covers: Works by Jane Kent, artist books, broadsheets, and working drawings created by the artist in collaboration with eight authors over the past 25 years. Free and open to the public.

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Bannister Art Gallery at Rhode Island College

November 7–December 6: Richard Whitten: Objects of Wonder. Richard Whitten creates paintings which transport the viewer through the surface of the painting into a world of imagined architectural spaces. There, the viewer finds similarly imagined machines and is invited to bring the worlds inside the paintings to life—to propel the machine into motion—through sight and thought alone.

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Currier Museum of Art

Ongoing: Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ouattara Watts: A Distant Conversation brings together six artworks by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), one of the most celebrated and influential artists of his generation, and seven large canvases by New York-based Ivorian painter Ouattara Watts (b. 1958). Ongoing: Dan Dailey: Impressions of the Human Spirit. Ongoing: Olga de Amaral: Everything is Construction and Color.

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3S Artspace

Opening November 22: Two exhibits, Noticing Light and Kinship Compositions, works by Christina Watka and Margaret Jacobs, respectively. Watka creates joyful spaces that reflect the interplay between light, fullness, movement, and stillness. Juxtaposed with Watka’s delicate suspended sculptures, Jacobs uses steel for her sculpture and powder coated brass in her jewelry, developing organic textures and surfaces. Free and open to the public.

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Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University

The Museum has a permanent collection focusing on American art from the 19th century to the present day, rotating exhibitions of contemporary, regional artists, and a gallery focused on the artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Through January 26, 2025: Ileana Doble Hernandez: My Dear Americans, It’s Not Enough; DM Witman: Ecologies of Restoration; Suzanne Révy: A Murmur in the Trees. See website for hours and events.

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Krakow Witkin Gallery

Through December 7: Jo Sandman: Folded Fabric. Saturday, November 9, 2 p.m.: Gallery talk with Jennifer M. Swope (David and Roberta Logie Curator of Textiles, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and Katherine French (curator, Sandman Legacy Project, and Director Emerita, Danforth Museum of Art). Reception to follow. Through December 7: Aiko Miyawaki: Work; and Robert Gober: One Wall, One Work. Saturday, November 30, 10 a.m.: Annual AIDS benefit (online only).

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The Guild of Boston Artists

Through November 30: Stapleton Kearns—We Are Still In Eden, a solo exhibition of oil paintings that reveal the landscape artist’s deep sensitivity to the beauty and magnificence found in pure rural nature as each canvas implores us to respond to a visual poetry of place. Artist demonstration: Saturday, November 16, 1 p.m. Opening December 7: Winter Holiday and Small Works Displays.

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Spectrum Art Gallery and Artisan Store

Voted Best Gallery for Art and Gifts on the Shoreline with painting, mixed media, sculpture, photography. November 22, 2024–January 11, 2025: Let There Be Love. As 2024 ends, the world trembles with war, racism, health and climate change. Yet, we still hope compassion, empathy and love exist. Show spotlights this with fine art and photography and Artisans Store with seasonal pottery, glass, fiber, home décor, jewelry, gift cards, and handmade ornaments on six-foot holiday tree. Shop online: SpectrumAnytime.com with U.S. shipping.

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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center

Ongoing: Desire Lines featuring the artwork of Alex Callender, Nandini Chirimar, Tara Geer, Maggie Nowinski, Dana Piazza, James Siena; Susan Mikula: Island; Adrienne Elise Tarver: Roots, Water, Air; The Noise of Us, featuring the artwork of Felipe Baeza, Ori Gersht, Simonette Quamina, and Maika’i Tubbs, and Vanessa Compton: A Night at the Garden. November 7–11: The 17th Annual LEGO Contest & Exhibit. Details at brattleboromuseum.org. Admission is pay-as-you-wish.

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Art Museum, University of Saint Joseph

Through December 14: On Paper: Media and Techniques, an examination of the materials and processes used to create works of art on paper, including drawings, watercolors, and various printmaking techniques. Included works range from sixteenth century Italian drawings to contemporary Japanese prints, as well as a selection of recent acquisitions by important women artists.

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Kingston Gallery

Through December 1, Main and Center Gallery: Rhonda Smith, Undiscovered Country. Through December 1, Project Space Gallery: Wendy Seller, Hybridized Worlds. Opening reception: Friday, November 1, 5–8 p.m. December 4–29, Main and Center Gallery: Iwalani Kaluhiokalani, Show Title: Mer Sea. December 4–29, Project Space Gallery: Amy Kaczur, Messages from the Marsh—parts 4–6. Opening reception: Friday, December 6, 5–8 p.m.

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Griffin Museum of Photography

November 1–December 5: November at the Griffin celebrates the collection of Frazier King, champion of emerging and mid-career artists in the exhibition Collectors Eye. An artist himself, Frazier looks at the craft of photography through the eyes of these incredible artists. December brings the Griffin’s annual member’s Winter Solstice exhibition and solo exhibition from Bridget Jourgensen, the 2024 Chervinsky Prize winner.

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Mattatuck Museum

The museum showcases American art and cultural history through its collection of over 15,000 objects, provides access to a research library and archives, hosts lectures, workshops, and community events, and offers spaces for corporate, wedding, and holiday rentals. Through December 1: Mad Geppetto’s Spooky Dioramas. Through January 5, 2025: Poskas, Father and Son. Through January 12, 2025: Federico Uribe’s Menagerie. Ongoing: O’Keeffe in Conversation.

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Hartford Art School Galleries

Through December 14: Pathways: HAS Faculty Show unveils the latest creations from the esteemed faculty of the Hartford Art School. The artwork ranges from porcelain to augmented reality, and represents a collective commitment to curiosity, process, and making. Poetry Night: Thursday, November 14, 5:30–7 p.m., Joseloff Gallery. November 4–23: The First-Year Foundations Show in Silpe Gallery celebrates a new cohort of thinkers and makers at the Hartford Art School. December 6–14: HAS Holiday Sale for holiday shopping and seasonal giving. Reception: Friday, December 6, 6–8 p.m.

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Colby College Museum of Art

Ongoing: Some American Stories is the newly installed thematic presentation of works from Colby’s collection in the museum’s Lunder Wing that leads visitors on a journey from before the founding of the United States to the present day. Galleries represent a different topic within the broader narrative of American art and history, reflecting a great diversity of experiences.

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ShowUp

December 6, 2024–February 16, 2025: AEROSOL: Boston’s Graffiti DNA, its Origin and Evolution. Launched as a five-part series in Art New England magazine will culminate in an exhibition at ShowUp Gallery in Boston, MA. Local artists, now grown, reflect on how graffiti introduced them to a medium that would mark their paths. While graffiti is temporary, its impact is permanent. Opening reception: Friday, December 6, 5–8 p.m.

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