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Boston Art Review's Issue 15 magazine cover featuring the artist Tourmaline standing outside of the Stonewall National Monument park in New York City.

Issue 15: Fall/Winter 2025

Tourmaline graces our cover, while inside, Issue 15 explores how memory, preservation, and practice shape what’s happening now—with exclusive artist projects, interviews, and our special Un-monument section. Every issue includes a copy of our brand-new map, Radar.

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At Aunty’s House, Ancestral Mothers Imagine the Future

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A gallery hosts sculptures on pedestals and hung on walls.

Online • Jan 20, 2026

Distorted Bodies, Decorative Surfaces: Corran Shrimpton’s “Flesh Flowers”

At Bromfield Gallery, the artist pairs Victorian floral decoration with contorted ceramic bodies to expose the pressure embedded in beauty standards.

Review by Melanie Litwin

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From the Print Archives

A woman and dog stand in a barren field.

Issue 14 • Jan 13, 2026

Good Stuff: In Conversation with Lucy R. Lippard

Interview by Michelle Millar Fisher

Issue 15 • Jan 13, 2026

Brooke Stewart’s Courts of Devotion

Interview by Devin Gordon

Issue 15 • Jan 06, 2026

Liz Collins on the Work of Many Hands

Profile by Marcus Civin

Civic Culture Desk

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Civic Culture • Dec 23, 2025

The Exit Interview: Mass Cultural Council's Executive Director, Michael J. Bobbitt, on a Pioneering Five Years

Michael J. Bobbitt reflects on his approach to systems change and integrating the arts into public policy as leader of the state government agency tasked with supporting the arts in Massachusetts. 

Interview by Kim Córdova

A man playing a cello and a woman playing a piano perform on a stage.

Civic Culture • Dec 15, 2025

Listening Together: Yo-Yo Ma, Mayor Wu, and a Hopeful Culture of Democracy

I’m a musician who has spent my professional life at the intersection of the arts and policy. Taking my kids to experience the “We The People: Celebrating Our Shared Humanity” concert clarified how shared cultural experiences can help us practice the art of civic engagement.

Op-Ed by Jenn Chang

A gallery hosts sculptures on pedestals and hung on walls.

Online • Jan 20, 2026

Distorted Bodies, Decorative Surfaces: Corran Shrimpton’s “Flesh Flowers”

Review by Melanie Litwin

A woman and dog stand in a barren field.

Issue 14 • Jan 13, 2026

Good Stuff: In Conversation with Lucy R. Lippard

Interview by Michelle Millar Fisher

Issue 15 • Jan 13, 2026

Brooke Stewart’s Courts of Devotion

Interview by Devin Gordon

Issue 15 • Jan 06, 2026

Liz Collins on the Work of Many Hands

Profile by Marcus Civin

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