Contemporary Art and Culture Magazine
Ongoing: Some American Stories is a 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.
Read moreOpening June 6: Repetitious Insecurity, a solo exhibition by Persian-American painter, activist, and 2025 Guggenheim Fellow Maryam Safajoo. Through narrative paintings, Safajoo illuminates the post-1979 persecution of Iran’s Baha’i community. Using a journalistic approach, she interviews those connected to the events—some currently imprisoned—to verify each detail. Her work is both deeply personal and political, raising awareness about ongoing oppression. As Safajoo says, “the pain of one is the pain of all.” Opening reception: Friday,
June 6, 5–8 p.m.
Through May 11: The Art of French Wallpaper Design and From Pineapple to Pañuelo: Philippine Textiles. Through May 4: The Road Less Traveled: Edo’s Nakasendo. Ongoing: Brighten Up!: Contemporary Enamels. Ongoing: Process Work: Intersections of Photography and Print ca. 1825 to Today. Upcoming this summer: Liz Collins: Motherlode.
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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.
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Through April 6: The Art of Joy Brown, a retrospective tracing Brown’s work, from tiny clay figures to clay-headed puppets, to small statues and wall tiles, to the monumental work found in public spaces. Hear Joy Brown speak, along with documentary filmmaker Eduardo Montes Bradley who is completing a film about Brown, Thursday, March 6, 7 p.m. Free and open to the public.
Read moreThrough March 11: Fraudulent Applications of Projection: Alex Wenstrup, Nathan Borradaile Wright. April 3–24: Wayfinding: Lisa Perez. Reception: Thursday, April 3, 5–7 p.m.
Read moreThrough March 7: Catch the end of Jeffrey Augustine Songco: Society of 23’s Conservatory which is an immersive, site-specific installation that creates a multisensory experience. April 1–May 3: Maker Fest presents works from makers in the Phillips Exeter Academy community: students, staff and others. The selections offer both the aesthetic and practical and showcase their community’s ingenuity and imagination.
Read moreThe Mercy Gallery invites groundbreaking artists working in a variety of media, representing diverse endeavors and cultural + geographic perspectives to share their art with the community. Open to the public. Through January 24: Destiny Palmer: Spoken in a Language You Can’t Ignore. Opening February 6: Khae Haskell: From Rot to Ravish. Haskell constructs luminous installations that combine intricate graphic drawings of botanical life with acrylic and neon light.
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Ongoing: Is anything the matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali includes more than 100 drawings dating from 1993 to 2020. The drawings explore Ali’s interest in the amalgam of race, power, gender, human frailty, murky politics, and other complex topics that are often treated as separate. Artist talk: Wednesday, April 9, 6 p.m.
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Ongoing: The Davis and Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. The artworks in Better on Paper hail from around the world, span diverse makers and approaches, and date to many periods. Free and open to the public.
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Through May 23: Everything/Nothing: Works from the 2025 Senior Concentration Seminar. Opening June 10: Room of Wonders. Curated by Birgit Straehle and Luis Fraire, this exhibition celebrates contemporary Worcester-area artists. Opening reception: Friday, June 6.
Read moreThrough March 21: RaMell Ross: Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body. RaMell Ross explores the meaning and mythology of the American South and of Black identity through this new exhibition of large-scale photographs and mixed-media sculptures. April 3–25: Lani Irwin & Alan Feltus—Selected Works. Curated by Professor Richard Whitten, this exhibition opens up a dialogue on sexuality and identity in contemporary figurative painting.
Through March 30: Losing Winter: Lynn Cazabon presents a unique and site-specific realization of Losing Winter, an ongoing participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and reflecting upon what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on seasonal patterns. Opening April 4: A Hole Hanging in the Air, works by Kate Conlon. Through a meticulous process of archival research and digital modeling, Conlon recreates illusion-generating, precise reconstructions of mechanical devices from the history of cinematic visual effects as cut-paper constructions.
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April 4–May 21: Travels, mixed media paintings of Tom Arsenault. Deftly merging paint and historical artifact, Arsenault creates ethereal scenes that evoke curiosity and emotion. Blending objects of art from both Eastern and Western traditions, his work seemingly transcends time and place, instead drawing the viewer into a mysterious dreamscape of rich color and surprising depth. Reception: Friday, April 4, 5:30 p.m.
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Through May 18: List Projects 31: Kite. Ongoing: Pedro Gómez-Egaña: The Great Learning. Opening June 5: List Projects 32: Elif Saydam. 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.
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Through January 15: Gallery Sitka will host work by local Newport artist Jerrell Angell. Opening February 8: A group show featuring work by Barbara Groh, Kate Huntington, Marston Clough, and Rux Darie. Reception: Saturday, February 8, 2–4 p.m. This opening will also feature jewelry by New York City designer Laurenti New York.
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Through its world-class collection and ongoing query What is America?, the Addison seeks to engage with the history of American art and American experience—past, present, and future. Winter exhibitions: Opening March 15: June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart. Opening February 2: Highlights from the Addison’s collection. Free and open to the public.
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Ongoing: Across Common Grounds: Contemporary Art Outside the Center. Drawing upon diverse styles and media from traditional craftwork to digital art, this exhibition features works by over twenty artists living across America that expand, deepen, and challenge how we cultivate and connect to land, culture, art, and one another in rural places.
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Opening January 16: Timothy Curtis: Two Hundred Years of Painting. Curtis will explore the relationships between Pennsylvania Dutch Stoneware of the 1860s in Philadelphia, 1960s graffiti writing in the same area, and his own artwork, highlighting the thread of influence in one region over 200 years. View original stoneware and new paintings by Curtis, along with a special area dedicated to celebrating the lives and work of 1960s African American Philadelphia graffiti writers.
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Through December 18: A Sculptor’s Watercolors. Sculptor Wendy Klemperer shows her watercolors and drawings, offering a rare glimpse of an artist’s work across mediums. She will display a sculpture recently purchased for the Dublin School’s sculpture park alongside her intimate, fresh and bold watercolor studies. Reception: Friday, December 6, 6-8 p.m.
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Winter is the ideal time to visit the Clark! A renowned collection of paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and decorative arts fills the galleries. Outside, the walking trails wind through a serene wintry landscape. Borrow a free pair of snowshoes to explore the campus. Opening November 23: Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable. Opening December 14: Wall Power! Modern French Tapestry from the Mobilier national, Paris.
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Celebrating its 46th anniversary, the SMFA Art Sale has been the leading contemporary art sale in New England since its creation in 1978; raising critical funds to support the financial aid needs of current students. Offering works across all mediums and price points, the sale showcases a diverse selection of talented students, alumni, faculty, and friends of SMFA.
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November 16–17: Harboring Creativity at ICA Watershed, featuring over forty local artists exhibiting and selling their work. Included artist talks and a screening of Hoopla Productions’ documentary. Free and open to the public. A must-see event for art lovers and collectors.
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November 23, 2024–January 5, 2025, evenings: Experience Night Lights: Color Cascade, a breathtaking light display celebrating the magic and beauty of the winter season. Wander through formal gardens and conservatories illuminated by more than a quarter million artfully arranged lights. With displays showcasing a creative new theme each year, this dazzling, one-of-a-kind spectacle is unmatched in the region. Festive activities such as outdoor skating, s’mores roasting, and holiday shopping promise an unforgettable experience for visitors of all ages.
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Through December 22: Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art is the first museum retrospective dedicated to Teddy Sandoval (1949–1995), a central figure in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicanx artistic circles who was an active participant in avant-garde movements. Through December 22: Pallavi Sen: Colour Theory is an immersive installation of new work by interdisciplinary artist and Williams College assistant professor of art Pallavi Sen.
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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 December 31: Tony Sarg: Genius at Play is the first comprehensive exhibition exploring the life, art, and adventures of Tony Sarg (1880–1942). Known as the father of modern puppetry in North America and the originator of the iconic Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade balloons, Sarg was an accomplished illustrator, animator, designer, and nimble entrepreneur who summered on, and took inspiration from, Nantucket for nearly twenty years. Organized and in partnership with the Normal Rockwell Museum. Made possible in part by funding by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Ongoing: Decade: 2014–2024, commemorating Mitchell • Giddings’ 10th anniversary with an exploration of printmaking by Matt Brown, Liz Chalfin, Elaine de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Stephen Hannock, Emily Mason, Jules Olitski, James Stroud, Dan Welden, and others. Opening a fine art gallery in 2014 provided owners Petria Mitchell and Jim Giddings an ideal opportunity to share conversation among artists, collectors and lovers of the visible creative act.
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The Hall Art Foundation is a museum of contemporary art with a sculpture park and café. Exhibitions are held seasonally, from May through November. On view this year: Barbara Kruger; Ed Ruscha; Sherrie Levine; Doomscrolling by Zorawar Sidhu and Rob Swainston and Icarus Rising by Robert Longo. Advance reservations recommended, yet not required. General admission: $15 adults; $5 children 12 and under.
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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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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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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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