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Miracles and Glory Abound Bates College Museum of Art • Lewiston, ME • bates.edu/museum • Through March 28, 2020 Vanessa…

Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle at PEM Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle • Peabody Essex Museum • Salem, MA • pem.org • Through April 26, 2020 The Broadway musical phenomenon Hamilton wasn’t the…

The CMCA’s Educational Initiative From the dawn of time, the job of artists has been to employ material to communicate…

Momo Pixel. Still from Momoland 4, 2018. Interactive pixel-art installation. Courtesy of the artist. Strike up the band—a new art…

I meet Lavaughan Jenkins in his modest second-floor studio near Boston’s SoWa Art + Design District. It’s one of several…

Paul Messier, the founding director of Yale University’s Lens Media Lab, is a student of art history and conservation. His…

Lindsey Beal invites me into her home/studio, a rare single-family house in the bustling Fox Point neighborhood of Providence. Her…

The opening shot of Walking on Water begins in darkness. From that gloom emerges the silhouette of an old man…

Only a year after earning her MFA at RISD, Rachelle Beaudoin was making waves in New Hampshire. In 2008, her…

Fall may be the best time to enjoy New England’s spectacular landscapes, both natural and creative. Whether escaping to the…

If you grew up in the 1970s or 1980s within an hour’s radius of Boston, as I did, your formative…

In a country where political turmoil has become a daily reality and the news often brings anger and exhaustion, reading…

Every inch the urban painter in fitted jeans and a black tee, Tabitha Vevers, accompanied by Sadie, her lively mixbreed…

When the Bauhaus was founded in Germany in 1919, New England was still a bastion of Yankee rectitude, decidedly conservative…

Johnny Swing (yes that’s his real name) is fascinated by curves and biomorphic forms. From a young age he even…

Only a few years ago, it seemed that climate change was an issue on the distant horizon. It was abstract,…

It’s often said that theater holds a mirror up to society. If that’s true, then black and brown people still…

Chris Myott in his home studio, winter 2018. Courtesy of the artist. Christopher Myott grew up in Jaffrey, NH, before…

Laurie Simmons is a master manipulator. Over a four-decade career, she’s used scale and dimension in tiny vignettes that penetrate…

In 1977, Carla Munsat had recently moved from Los Angeles—where she had studied painting with Richard Diebenkorn at UCLA—to the…

Emily Mason in her Vermont studio, 2018. Photo by Joshua Farr. The grounds of Emily Mason’s house in Brattleboro enchant…

Mark Hogancamp, Saving the Major, 2004 (printed 2018), digital inkjet print. © Mark Hogancamp. Courtesy of the artist and One…

Bob Dilworth in his Providence studio with work from his series Black Love Matters, 2018, acrylic, spray paint, color markers…

A joint drawing, a spontaneous “jam,” created by Edward Koren, the previous Vermont cartoonist laureate (holding the pen and laurels),…

Sculptures by Philippe Guillerm. Photo: Reid & Evan Sikes, courtesy of the artist.   Freedom, space, posterity. For artists lacking…

Anna Schuleit Haber in her studio taken at UMCA, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst. Photo: John Solem.  …

Harmony Hammond, Rib, 2013, oil and mixed media on canvas, 901⁄3 x 72½” (229.36 x 184.15 cm). Courtesy Alexander Gray…

Decades ago, when I entered an art museum with my newborn sleeping in a baby carriage, I was seen as…

Artists’ books use intimacy and immediacy to convey pleasure and coax understanding, integrating conception, illustration, design and materials into a…

Most artists work with the media, supplies and tools they’ve brought into their studios: paint, canvas, stone, chisels. Not Andy…

To get to sculptor/furniture designer Vivian Beer’s new home studio in Pembroke, New Hampshire, you follow a spooling industrial side…

The gray-shingled exterior of award- winning children’s book artist and author Ashley Bryan’s modest home on Little Cranberry Island, also…

Tango for Page Turning begins as it ends, with the artist’s hands on the cover of an antique chemistry text….

There is a certain line of conversation that mourns the death of modern art: Jackson Pollock paintings hang in museums;…

As Al Wilson walked around Lynn’s Central Square recently, everyone wanted to shake his hand. “Tell me, what can I…

London figurative artist R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007) was a second-generation Russian-Jewish immigrant who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, yet lived in…

A majestic three-story wall of color rises along the entire south side of Helena Hernmarck’s bright and open modern studio…