Support the future of BAR: The benefit art sale is on for one more week!
Spring/Summer 2023
As BAR celebrates our own (albeit short) history, we’re looking to archives and blueprints, memories, and dreams to inform our future. We’re paying homage to the people and spaces that have shaped Boston’s art community and scenes that are inspiring new waves. We’re reflecting on how far we’ve come, what we’ve left behind, and what we’re hoping to create.
Cover: Lyle Ashton Harris, Obsessão II, detail 2017.
Includes: Poster designed by Lyle Ashton Harris, 14.5″ x 19×5″, offset print with metallic ink
Title
Author
Category
Letter from the Editor
Jameson Johnson
PRINT ONLY
Coming and Going with Camilo Alvarez, Anthony Greaney, and Lucy Kim
Anthony Greaney
Curators’ Corner
Passing the Torch: Edmund Barry Gaither and Danny Rivera on Organizing and Keeping the Faith
Alula Hunsen
Conversation
Visits and Vigils: Crystalle Lacouture’s Material Memories
Jessica Shearer
Profile
Intimate and Familiar: Revisiting the Boston School
Lynne Cooney
Feature
How the Boston School—Thirty Years Removed— Helped Me Find My Way Through Boston
Leah Triplett Harrington
Entering a Third Space: In Conversation with Estefania Puerta
Maya Rubio
Mapping Obsessão II
Lyle Ashton Harris
Artist Project + Interview by Jameson Johnson
A Hand as a Page
Body & Forma
Artist Project + Interview by Kaitlyn Ovett Clark
MUSH8NASH: Reclaiming Our Waterways
Tess Lukey (Aquinnah Wampanoag)
Transcendent Touch: How vanessa german Transformed an Archive
Kéla Jackson
A Film for Transient Archives: In Conversation with Georden West
Jasper A. Sanchez
READ
Learning and Imagining Reparations with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics
Erik DeLuca
Critical Perspective
Why (Boston) Comics? (With apologies to Hillary Chute)
Heide Solbrig
Trying to Stay: Wisdom for Art Makers in Boston
Heather Kapplow
“Jace Clayton: They Are Part” at MassArt Art Museum
Toby Wu
Review
Nafis M. White: Freedom Is My Favorite Position” at Central Contemporary Arts
Kendall DeBoer
“Mitsuko Brooks: Letters Mingle Souls” at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Marcus Civin
“Spirits: Tsherin Sherpa with Robert Beer” at the Peabody Essex Museum
Sarah Baker
“Betye Saar: Heart of a Wanderer” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum by Karla Mendez
Karla Méndez
Review by Toby Wu
Feature by BAR Editorial
Interview by Jasper A. Sanchez