November / December 2024

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paradise City Arts hosts New England’s premier and most celebrated shows of contemporary fine and decorative arts. The Marlborough event draws thousands of attendees of art buyers, designers, and enthusiasts seeking to connect with 175 exceptional artists and makers from across the country. In Metrowest Boston (with free parking), enjoy the special exhibition Styling the Seasons, music in the air, and two cafés.

Ongoing: Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women by Julie Lapping Rivera; Designing Downtown; Tiffany’s Gardens in Glass; Gilded Echoes: The Tiffany Influence in Josh Simpson’s Glasswork.

Through December 22: Varujan Boghosian: Material Poetry. This exhibition presents collages and mixed-media pieces that span Boghosian’s career, including rarely seen artworks from the collection of his daughter, Heidi Boghosian. Well-known as an art professor at major American universities, Boghosian played a large role in the Provincetown art colony, influencing generations of artists and writers.

Kathryn Schultz Gallery (25R Lowell Street) + CAA @ University Place (124 Mt Auburn Street), through January 17, 2025: Aura, juried by Tessa Bachi Haas (ICA/Boston). CAA @ Canal (650 E. Kendall Street), through January 8, 2025: Patterns in Nature, juried by Hadley Powell.

Opening December 21: Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene. Ongoing: Maria Molteni: Soft Score. Ongoing: Beau McCall: Buttons On! Ongoing: Hand in Hand: Works from the Fleur S. Bresler Collection. Ongoing: Small Wonders: Beauty, Alchemy, and the Art of Enameling. Through November 3: Chris Bathgate: The Machinist Sculptor. Through November 24: Tiny Pricks Project: Desperate Times, Creative Measures. Through December 1: Michael C. Thorpe: Homeowners Insurance. Fuller Craft Museum’s wide-ranging exhibitions and outdoor sculpture showcase the finest contemporary craft in a spectacular organic modernist building and woodland setting. All are welcome, completely free of charge.

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.

Through January 12, 2025: Bob Dilworth: When I Remembered Home features the vibrantly colored, richly layered, monumental portraits of Bob Dilworth. Through January 5, 2025: G.O.A.T. The Sports Photography of Walter Iooss. Iooss photographed professional sports with the passion and perception of a true fan, capturing iconic moments in sports history for over sixty years. Ongoing: Africa Rising: 21st-Century African Photography, including photographs by Zanele Muholi, Lalla Essaydi, and Aida Muluneh, among others.

Through December 15: Organized in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (London) and the Mellon’s Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Virginia), Rory McEwen: A New Perspective on Nature surveys the impact of Scottish painter Rory McEwen (1932–1982). McEwen’s work is presented alongside botanical art from the eighteenth through twenty-first centuries. Free and open to the public.

Montserrat Gallery, through November 23: Throughline, The Fiber Art of Mary Balzer Buskirk. Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, through November 16: I’ll Be Your Mirror (Part I); Annie Lee-Daly & Shannon Herrick.

Through January 12, 2025: American Paintings from the Art Complex Museum Collection. Hands to Work, Hearts to God: Celebrating Mother Ann Lee’s Legacy, featuring Laura Christensen. November 10, 2024–February 9, 2025: Nancy Hayes: Thought Translated into Form. Reception: Sunday, November 10, 2024, 1–4 p.m. Ongoing: Nora Valdez: Passage. Admission is always free.

Jane Deering Gallery presents Two Photographers | Two Solos: November 9–December 8: Paul Cary Goldberg’s street images from the 1970s alongside his contemporary farm portraits, and Anthony Ohman’s black and white series exploring the relationships of images in sequence. December 14 & 15: Paige Farrell, Art in Clay: Lighten up, It’s Christmas!

Ongoing: Filtered Identity: The Art of Tigran Tsitoghdzyan. Tigran is a New York-based artist whose photo-realistic paintings merge an interest in classical and modern art with an emphasis on his own experiences as a father and an immigrant. He has exhibited widely including Art Basel Miami, Cube Art Fair in Times Square, and globally in cities such as Dubai, Singapore, Zurich, and Brussels.

November 2–30: johngreinerferris/november2024/mixedmedia, mixed media by John Greiner-Ferris, and POLLINATION: BODY AND SOUL, painting and mixed media by Dominick Takis. Opening reception: Sunday, November 3, 2–5 p.m. Second reception and artists talks: Thursday, November 14, 6–9 p.m. December 7–28: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Eric Hess and elfin friends. Opening reception: Saturday, December 7, 5–8 p.m. Third Thursday reception and artist talk: December 19, 6–9 p.m.

Home of American Illustration; featuring new exhibitions. Opening November 9: Anita Kunz. November 23, 2024–January 4, 2026: Illustrators of Light: Rockwell, Wyeth, and Parrish from the Mazda Edison Collection. Opening November 9: Norman Rockwell: Home for the Holidays. Guided tours of Rockwell’s Studio and galleries by reservation. Museum Store (and online store). Save time with online tickets. More at NRM.org.

Through January 20, 2025: Im/Perfect Modernisms: Asian Art and Identity Since 1945. Challenge your preconceptions of modern art through thought-provoking and at times subversive artworks created across postwar Asia. November 23, 2024–March 9, 2025: Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate. Explore how the nude was used by artists in the 20th century to explore new ideas about age, race, gender, and sexuality, with works by Pablo Picasso, Alice Neel, Barkley L. Hendricks, Henri Matisse, and many more.

The Norwood Space Center will celebrate the holidays with vendors, food trucks, and Salvage Angel’s Holiday Stroll. SONO Arts—the resident artists—will open their studios in Building 6 and guest artists from Norwood and surrounding communities will join them for an art exhibition. Free and open to the public. To learn more, visit Norwoodspacecenter.com/events.

Through December 20: Blue Profundity: Contemporary Artists Revisit a Color. This exhibition features contemporary artists who incorporate blue in their work to highlight the symbolic and historic meanings of the color. Includes work by Adam Chau, Ifé Franklin, Michelle Samour, Heather Evans Smith, and Andrea Pettway Williams.