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March 21–23: Paradise City Arts hosts New England’s premier and most celebrated shows of contemporary fine and decorative arts. Their Marlborough event draws thousands of attendees of art buyers, designers, and enthusiasts seeking to connect with their 170 exceptional artists and makers from across the country. In MetroWest Boston with free parking, enjoy the special exhibition Living Color, music in the air, and two cafés.

Through March 30: Designing Downtown. Opening March 15: Portraits in RED: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples Project. Opening March 29: Van Gogh for All.

Opening March 14: John Enneking: American Impressionist. Enneking is often credited as “America’s first Impressionist.” His continued studies with the great impressionists of Europe influenced the development of his personal style, nurtured his love of nature, and reinforced his drive as a professional artist. He brought these teachings back with him to the U.S. where he painted in Boston and throughout the greater region. Discover New England in a new light through Enneking’s bubbling trout brooks, thickly forested landscapes, solitary clam diggers, and his favorite subject: the brilliant New England twilight.

Ongoing: Tara Sellios | Ask Now the Beasts. Sellios is a Boston-based artist whose monumental photographs highlight the beauty of the grotesque. Sellios creates still life vignettes from organic materials including animal bones, insect specimens, and dried flowers which she photographs using a large format 8 X 10 inch camera. Printed at a large scale, Sellios’s photographs capture the vivid details of her materials. Through May: Stephen DiRado, Better Together: Four Decades of Photographs, a career retrospective exhibition featuring the work of Stephen DiRado, the leading contemporary artist and fine art photographer in Central Massachusetts.

Through March 5, Montserrat Gallery: Jay Critchley, Democracy of the Land, Inc.—FLAGrancy. Through March 15, Schlosberg Gallery: Claudia Valenti, The Other Room. Senior Thesis Exhibitions, March 26–May 16, all galleries. Please visit montserrat.edu for more details.

Through April 19: Duxbury Art Association Winter Juried Show; Raku from the Art Complex Museum Collection. Through May 5: Steve Branfman: Thought Translated into Form. Saturday, April 12, 1–4 p.m.: Painters & Poets—Ekphrastic poetry, guest speakers, readings.  Ongoing: Nora Valdez: Passage.

Through March 22: New Members Exhibition, Duygu Aytaç, Jean M Bernstein, Jeff Briggs, Elsa Campbell, Nick Di Stefano, Daniel Gaviani, Katie Kimbrell. Third Thursday reception: March 20, 6–9 p.m. April 4–26: Two Painters/Dos pintores, work by Diane Teubner and Renato Viganego. Opening reception: Saturday, April 5, 5–8 p.m. Third Thursday reception: April 17, 6–9 p.m.

Through March 30: Mags Harries, An Artist’s Chair and Jonathan Latiano, Scaling a Pyramid. First Friday, March 7, 5–8:30 p.m. Artists’ reception and artists’ talks: Saturday, March 1, 3–5 p.m.; talks begin at 3:30 p.m. Opening April 3: Andy Zimmermann, Snulpture and Anna Kristina Goransson, Topia. First Fridays, April 4 & May 2, 5–8:30 p.m. Artists’ talks: Sunday, April 13, 3 p.m. Snulpture live music event: Thursday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.

Home of American Illustration. Opening March 1: All for Laughs: The Artists of the Famous Cartoonist Course. Through May 26: Anita Kunz: Original Sisters, Portraits of Tenacity & Courage. Ongoing: Illustrators of Light: Rockwell, Wyeth, and Parrish from the Edison Mazda Collection. Guided gallery tours; virtual exhibition and field trips. Museum Store (and online store). Save time with online tickets. More at NRM.org.

Through March 9: Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate. Explore more than two dozen iconic paintings traveling from Tate in London, and discover how these boundary-pushing artists used the nude to challenge preconceptions about age, race, gender, and sexuality. Opening March 29: Reflections of a Changing Japan: The Evolution of Shin Hanga. Delve into an era of change in Japan, when Shin Hanga, or “new prints,” emerged as an art form that was both distinctly Japanese and internationally resonant.

Through April 1: Michael Beatty: Fabrications, Selections from 1992 to present: Associate Professor Emeritus Michael Beatty’s retrospective exhibition celebrates his sculptural practice, which is informed by concepts from science, nature, philosophy, and mathematics.

The Museum has a permanent collection focusing on American art, rotating exhibitions of contemporary, regional artists, and a gallery focused on the artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Ongoing: Tina Feingold: Wishful Thinking; Tim McDonald: The Diamond Sea; Selfhood, featuring work by Alice Dillon, Scott Foster, Kathryn Geismar, Lisa Tang Liu, and Keith Morris Washington. See website for hours and membership information.

Through April 5: The Music of Sight, a spring exhibition kicking off the season with a collection of new works from the Guild’s members. Opening April 12: Of Dusk and Dawn—Paintings by Dennis Sheehan, a solo exhibition of the renowned contemporary artist’s most recent series of Tonalist landscapes. Opening reception: Saturday, April 12, 3–5 p.m.

Through April 17: AAMARP Group Exhibition. Curator: Marlon Forrester. The African American Masters Artists in Residency Program presents artworks from eighteen intergenerational artists, encompassing a variety of mediums and genres that reflect an array of approaches to the art of Africa and the African diaspora.

Opening March 7: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking. Discover the experimental methods of Edvard Munch, who creatively explored materials and techniques across media. Join the Harvard Art Museums to celebrate the opening of this exhibition by hearing from the exhibition organizers and specialists from the Munchmuseet, Oslo on Thursday, March 6.

Through March 27: Members Juried 2: Collage, Crafts, Drawing, Graphics, Mixed Media, Photography, Printmaking (Main Gallery) and Tracey Maroni + Linda Hammett Ory (Members Gallery). Opening April 3: Liberation Textiles: Our Social Fabric (Main Gallery) and Rebecca Mann + Astrid Reischwitz (Members Gallery). Reception: Thursday, April 3, 5:30 p.m.

Ongoing: List Projects 31: Kite. Ongoing: Pedro Gómez-Egaña: The Great Learning. The List Center galleries and programs are always free and open to the public. Visit listart.mit.edu for programming and exhibition updates along with their most up-to-date visitor information.

March 5–30: Main Gallery—Nat Martin: Over Days. Center Gallery and Project Space—Diane Novetsky: On the Cusp, new paintings and prints. Opening reception: Friday, March 7, 5–8 p.m. April 2–27: Main Gallery—Linda Leslie Brown: Circulations. Center Gallery—Bonnie Sennott: Noise Antidote, abstract embroidery. Project Space—Vaughn Sills: Still. Opening reception: Friday, April 4, 5–8 p.m. Artist talk: Saturday, April 19, 2 p.m.

Through March 30: Nuclear Family, Mengwen Cao, Jess T. Dugan, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Matthew Leifheit, Laurence Philomene, Anne Vetter; Meditations in an Emergency, Kevin Bennett Moore; An Impossibly Normal Life, Matthew Finley. All exhibitions were created by curator and artist Katalina Simon, in collaboration with Crista Dix, executive director of the Griffin Museum, and exhibition designer Yana Nosenko. Opening April 17: New Horizons: Korean Contemporary Photography.