Contemporary Art and Culture Magazine
The Gallery’s encyclopedic holdings range from ancient times to the present day and represent cultures from around the globe. Opening September 12: Nusantara: Six Centuries of Indonesian Textiles. Through October 19: Romney: Brilliant Contrasts in Georgian England. Free and open to the public.
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Through July 25: In the Bellarmine Hall Galleries and the Walsh Gallery (Quick Center): For Which It Stands… Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the U.S., this major loan exhibition explores key moments in our country’s history through artworks depicting the American flag, from WWI to the present day. Artworks on view will challenge viewers to consider who the American flag truly represents and whether justice is available to all.
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Through January 4, 2026: Whiskers and Whimsy: Animals in Currier & Ives Prints. Through January 4, 2026: Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. Ongoing: Legacies of Surrealism/Markets, Foodways, and the Essence of Place: Works from the Museo de Arte de Ponce.
Read more>Through December 13: Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts, 13th–18th Centuries highlights the golden age of hand-written and illuminated volumes, many of which included elaborate gold leaf decoration and intricate ornamentation. This exhibition is organized by the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania. At the University of Saint Joseph, the exhibition is supported in part by the Karen L. Chase ’97 Fund. Film Screening: The Secret of Kells (2009), Sunday, November 9, 3 p.m.
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Through December 30: AVA Members’ Holiday Exhibition fills the galleries with fine art and handmade crafts made by artists from New Hampshire and Vermont. Holiday Open House, Saturday, December 6, 11a.m.–7 p.m.: Tour three stories of their historic mill building and state-of-the-art contemporary sculptural studies center; activities for the whole family! Opening January 16: Eva Strum Gross, Juni Van Dyke, and Rachel Bernsen: Novel Formats, scheduled and ticketed performances which engage with a proposed theme and choreographic structures, integrated into a visual art experience.
Read moreThrough November 5: Past Tense/Present Visions: A Wheeler Alumni Exhibition. Judith Salomon ’71, Casey Blanchard ’71, Nellie Congdon ’15, Ruby Goldstein ’22, Sam Green ’06, Shoshana Lowe ’20. November 20–December 10: Elemental Forms/Broken Earth, BC Crane, Denny Moers, Jonathan Sharlin. Reception: Thursday, November 20, 5–8 p.m.
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Opening December 11: Arshile Gorky: Redrawing Community and Collections. The Museum is proud to announce the opening of this landmark exhibition. This is the first exhibition of Gorky’s work in an Armenian museum, and it caps off a series of programs initiated by the “100 Years of Arshile Gorky” Committee in the City of Watertown. The twenty-five works from lenders across the country, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Housatonic Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and many private collections, are curated by Kim S. Theriault. Sponsored by the JHM Charitable Foundation.
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November 1–29: Stop Look Listen. Work by richard dorff + collaboration with Alberto Roblest. Opening reception: Saturday, November 1, 5–8 p.m.; Third Thursday reception: November 20, 6–9 p.m. December 5–20: East Boston High School Student Art Show. Work by East Boston High School students, in collaboration with the Mass Cultural Council. Opening reception: Friday, December 5, 5–8 pm..; Third Thursday/closing reception: December 18, 5–8 p.m..
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Ongoing: Precision and Expression: American Studio Ceramics from the E. John Bullard Collection in the Upper Gallery showcases an expansive ceramics collection. Shellburne Thurber: Full Circle in the Lower Galleries presents photographic explorations of place.
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Opening November 22: New Arms and Armor Galleries. Uncover the real stories behind myths and legends, brought to life through over 1,000 objects from around the world. Reservations required, now available at worcesterart.org/armor. Through February 1, 2026: Lee Mingwei: Our Peaceable Kingdom. Experience the ongoing collaborative artwork that brings together more than forty artists to address the question, “What is peace?”
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Offering innovative contemporary art exhibitions in a historic firehouse on Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace. Through January 24, 2026: Do We Say Goodbye? Grief, Loss, and Mourning probes unspoken rituals of mourning and questions the silence that often surrounds loss in contemporary culture. In photography, painting, video, and installation, the featured artists—Peter Bruun, Bethany Collins, Jordan Douglas, Mariam Ghani, Lydia Kern, John Killacky, Nirmal Raja, and Jamel Robinson—offer moving meditations on memory, endurance, transition, and empowerment.
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Opening November 6: Peter Waite: Social Memory, Paintings 1987–2025. What if absence were a presence? The Wadsworth presents an exhibition of paintings by Peter Waite, known for his large-scale architectural scenes that explore spaces where history, memory, and perception meet. Working in acrylic on rigid panels, Waite’s compositions capture the beauty and poignancy of overlooked corners, faded surfaces, and traces of life that remain when people are gone.
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Through November 29: The Here & Now, a spotlight exhibition of oil landscapes by Boston School artist Sam Vokey that transport the viewer to the very instance of observation, infused with all the visual poetry of a fleeting moment spent in nature. Artist demonstration: Saturday, November 22, 1 p.m. Opening December 6: Winter Holiday and Small Works Displays.
Read moreNovember 6–December 17: Untamed. Lauren Webber. Opening reception: Thursday, November 6, 5:30–7 p.m. Webber is a multidisciplinary contemporary artist whose large-scale digital collages blend thousands of open-source Renaissance images. Printed on unstretched archival canvas, her works explore Western visual traditions, reimagining how the power of women and cultural identity are represented through images.
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Opening January 15: Water Writes the Garden, a solo exhibition by Mary Mattingly that unites photographs, sculptures, and poetry around water’s role as timekeeper and storyteller. It explores how water makes marks and sculpts environments through cyclical formation and erosion. What does water remember? And what does it write into the landscape? Here, gardens are both cultivated and fugitive. Public programs will include conversations with leading experts in climate change, an artist talk, and poetry readings.
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September 5–October 31: Finding Home: Portraits and Memories of Immigrants, Becky Field. Reception: Friday, September 5. Artist talk: Saturday, September 6. A compelling photography exhibition showcasing the diverse journeys of immigrants across New Hampshire. Photography that captures the vibrant lives and stories of immigrants seeking safety, education, work, and freedom.
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Gallery Sitka will be hosting Cynthia Woehrle and Marton Clough through September. Kellie Weeks opens on Friday, October 10, from 4:30–
6 p.m. Marli Thibodeau opens Friday, November 14, from 4:30–6 p.m. and NAWAMA joins Gallery Sitka opening Friday, December 12, from 4:30–6 p.m. for “La Fête”—a celebratory end to 2026!
Ongoing: Visual Kinship explores how photography defines, challenges, and reimagines the concept of family. Across diverse historical and contemporary works, the exhibition examines how images reflect and disrupt family structures shaped by colonialism, migration, transnational adoption, and queer intimacies. Opening September 6: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Making Colors in Europe, 1400–1800 examines artistic production in the early modern period through the lens of its distinctive colors; recipes for pigments, dyes, and glazes were often closely guarded secrets and critical to the value of a work of art.
Read moreSeptember 2–November 22: Strange Kin is a swarm of tiny critters (real and faux) that playfully inspect and reimagine the little giants that live among us. The five artists on view embrace their affection or comfort in entomology, by not only making work about insects but with them. Collectively, the work on view braids pure aesthetic joy with stinging commentary on environmental issues, species decline, and conservation.
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Through September 14: The exhibition Bettinson’s Maine includes works from 1991–2008 when Brenda Bettinson developed her iconic style. Bettinson’s Ravensbrück Series is on view at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center in Augusta, Maine, through September 5. Check website for accompanying event dates.
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Ongoing: Structure, Light, Land features Kasten’s work from multiple series, including Architectural Sites, Collisions, and Progressions, as well as new iterations of digital projections, cyanotypes, and sculptures. With a striking interplay of light, color, and form, Kasten’s work infiltrates the grounds of The Glass House and responds to the site’s varied built environment and landscape. Advanced tickets required.
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Contemporary fine New England art and photography in a 1780 farmhouse. Through November 11: A Place for the Sacred: Four Artists Reflect Upon A New & Difficult World. Sunday, November 3, 4 p.m.: Closing Arguments & Poetry Reading. Individual and group fall and winter workshops in italic calligraphy, nature cards/journals and raised and tooled gold leaf.
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Through October 26: Dan Welden: Haystack Crescendo, a new suite of hybridized prints—neither pure print nor painting—black and white etchings upon which master printmaker Welden has applied acrylic, watercolor and crayon. Created during a residency at Haystack School of Crafts in Deer Isle, ME, using abandoned, corroded zinc printing plates, already partially etched by nature.
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Spanning the Sculpture Park’s front lawn and beyond, Nature Sanctuary explores relationships between the natural world and ideas of home across a landscape shared and shaped by people and art. Original commissions and loans from six artists—Venetia Dale, Kapwani Kiwanga, Joiri Minaya, Zohra Opoku, Kathy Ruttenberg, and Evelyn Rydz—link deCordova’s ecology, its past as a family home, and its integration with a land conservation organization. Ongoing: Nature Sanctuary.
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Through September 28: Wen-Hao Tien, Flight Lessons and Ellen Schön, Loftings. First Friday, September 5, 5–8:30 p.m. Reception and artists’ talks: Saturday, September 13, 2–5 p.m., talks at 3 p.m. Open Mic with Wen-Hao Tien: Saturday, September 20, 3–5 p.m. 3D Clay-Printing Demo with Ellen Schön: Sunday, September 21 at 2 p.m. Opening October 2: Sally Moore, Human/Beast and Laura Evans, The Weight: how to move. First Friday, October 4, 5–8:30 p.m. Reception and artists’ talks: Sunday, October 19, 2–5 p.m., talks at 3 p.m.
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Home of American Illustration. Ongoing: Illustrators of Light: Rockwell, Wyeth, and Parrish from the Edison Mazda Collection. Through November 2: Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor. Through October 26: I SPY! Walter Wick’s Hidden Wonders. Through October 26: Hidden Worlds and Wonders Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. Guided gallery tours, virtual exhibition and field trips. More at NRM.org.
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Through November 16: Gisela McDaniel: Inina; Where the Real Lies; Henry Strater’s Ogunquit; Hugh Hayden’s Gulf Stream; Jordan Bennet: A Love Letter: A Prayer Set upon the Sea. Free admission during First Fridays 5–8 p.m.
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Ongoing: The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War: Fashion, Citizenship, and Nationalism (1954–1975), exploring the role that Vietnam’s national costume—the áo dài—played within Vietnam and on the global stage during the Vietnam War and how clothing is used to assert cultural identity.
Read moreNovember 6–December 5: The Galileo Project: Works by Doug Bosch and Richard Whitten, Book Design by Nancy Bockbrader. Drawing from the history and the visual language of the scientific instruments housed in the Museo Galileo, Doug Bosch and Richard Whitten each interprets and reimagines these objects through the lens of their own practice. Bockbrader’s hand-bound catalogue provides a satisfyingly unique companion for the exhibition.
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September 4–October 12: Eternal Equinox—Photo encaustics by Joan Kocak; vivid landscapes in oil by Jill Hoy; abstract works on paper by Daryl Burtnett; new works by represented artists. Reception: Saturday, September 20, 6–8 p.m. Opening October 15: Inner Sojourns—Elisa Adams’ sculptures delve into the mystical world of Tarot cards and invite the audience on a meditative experience; abstract mixed media by Athena Petra Tasiopoulos; and paintings by Avery S. Bramhall complete this intriguing show. Reception: Saturday, October 25, 6–8 p.m.
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Currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, 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. Opening September 13: B. Lynch: Little Dramas; Nayana LaFond: Portraits in RED; Sonya Tanae Fort: I See You/Morabeza. See website for hours.
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Portland Gallery, opening September 5: Charlie Hewitt. Falmouth Gallery, through October 11: Geoffrey Dorfman & Brian Smith. Opening October 17: The Haunted: Contemporary Photography Conjured in New England.
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Opening September 12: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black. Discover how simple tools can be powerful vehicles for artistic expression. Enjoy drawings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, John Singer Sargent, and Odilon Redon, alongside 20th- and 21st-century artists such as Piet Mondrian, Lyonel Feininger, Diego Rivera, Richard Serra, John Wilson, Isabella Quintanilla, and Toyin Ojih Odutola, all of whom push their use of drawing media in new directions.
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Opening September 27: Inside Out: Contexts for American Art. The Florence Griswold Museum is a unique institution rooted in the context of its site-specific environment. Inspired by this multi-sensory setting, Inside Out investigates the power of contextualizing selected artworks from the Museum’s collection, turning them “inside out” for viewers to engage with paintings, sculpture, prints, textiles, and photographs in creative ways. Works of art are placed in conversation with archival materials, period music, artmaking tools, and interactive activities.
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September 11–October 19, Main + Members galleries: 26th Annual Frances N. Roddy Exhibition, juried by Sarah Montross. Reception: Thursday, September 11, 5:30 p.m. Opening October 23, Main Gallery: Motherhood as Muse, curated by Kathryn Geismar and Deborah Peeples. Members Gallery: Color Conversations, Laura Barr, Kay Hartung, Anne Johnstone. Reception: Thursday, October 23, 5:30 p.m.
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Ongoing: Making Space, a group exhibition featuring artwork by Beverly Acha, Emily Noelle Lambert, Mika Obayashi, Howardena Pindell, Michelle Samour, Deborra Stewart-Pettengill, and Lauren Watrous; Laura Chasman: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Founded on Artists’ Books: Franklin Furnace 50th Anniversary Tribute; GLASSTASTIC 2025; John Kenn Mortensen: Dream Homes; Jonathan Ryan Storm: Time Was a River, Too; and Mark Barry: Petals to Metal and Other Stories.
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September 4–28, Main Gallery: Kurt Ankeny, Linda Cordner, Richard Dorff, Sharon Kaitz, Mario Kon, Virginia Mahoney: Six New Artists. Center Gallery: Jennifer Liston Munson: The Petrifying Gaze. Project Space Gallery: Randy Garber and Rachel Garber Cole: So Late So Soon. Opening reception: Friday, September 5, 5–8 p.m. October 2–November 2, Main and Center galleries: Mary Lang: Entangled. Project Space Gallery: Hilary Tolan: Waterland. Opening reception: Friday, October 3, 5–8 p.m.
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Through December 21: A rich history of Cape Cod, the Islands, and the Southcoast region is brought back to life in Taverns to Trades: American Folk Art Signs, highlighting the centuries-old artistry of tavern and trade signs known and loved by the region. These signs reflect the trades and travel destinations of their times and represent an array of woodworking, painting, gilding, and welding techniques from skilled craftspeople and artisans. Inspired by these historic examples, contemporary artists Jeff Dinardo of Cotuit and Pete Vogel from Nutmegger Workshop in Maine continue these traditions through woodworking, sign painting, and antiquing processes.
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