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Online • Oct 20, 2026
Open Valley Spotlights Industrious Artists and Makers in Post-Industrial Providence
The biannual event returns to the Valley neighborhood for its second edition on November 7.
Feature by Jacqueline Houton
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Online • Oct 07, 2026
Piep Haus Projects Opens in North Andover with Arthur Henderson’s Hand-Hewn World of Folk Story
Quick Bit by Monica Lynn Manoski
Online • Oct 06, 2026
“From Rock to Cloud”: Yu-Wen Wu Assembles Diasporic Lineages
Quick Bit by Wei Huang
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Civic Culture • Oct 19, 2026
Three Ballot Questions that Could Affect the Arts This November
Massachusetts voters face nine ballot questions this November. Questions 3, 4, and 5 could change how the state elects its leaders, who can participate in elections, and how public revenue is managed. MASSCreative brought together advocates to discuss what’s at stake. Here’s what we learned.
News by Kim Córdova
Civic Culture • Oct 01, 2026
ArtWonk: What Does It Take to Make Precarity a Collective Cause in the Arts?
At Company One Theatre’s Boston cultural policy event, artists, funders, and policymakers considered living wages and the beginnings of a collective agenda for the arts. Similar concerns surfaced in local talks by artist Josh Kline and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who each took aim at the growing concentration of wealth and the threats to democracy that arise from the prohibitive cost of participating in society.
News by Kim Córdova
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Online • Oct 20, 2026
Open Valley Spotlights Industrious Artists and Makers in Post-Industrial Providence
Feature by Jacqueline Houton
Civic Culture • Oct 19, 2026
Three Ballot Questions that Could Affect the Arts This November
News by Kim Córdova
Online • Oct 07, 2026
Piep Haus Projects Opens in North Andover with Arthur Henderson’s Hand-Hewn World of Folk Story
Quick Bit by Monica Lynn Manoski
Online • Oct 06, 2026
“From Rock to Cloud”: Yu-Wen Wu Assembles Diasporic Lineages
Quick Bit by Wei Huang
UN-MONUMENT • Sep 25, 2026
Confronting the Ego: The Artist Behind King’s Chapel’s Monument
Feature by Harmonia Rosales
Online • Sep 15, 2026
Editors’ Picks: Twelve Exhibitions Opening in Massachusetts This Fall
Feature by BAR Editorial
Online • Sep 15, 2026
Pulling Up More Chairs and Looking Ahead: News from the BAR Team
News by Jameson Johnson
Online • Sep 10, 2026
The Rabkin Foundation Announces Winners of the 2026 Rabkin Prizes
News by Rabkin Foundation (Partner Post)
Online • Sep 03, 2026
Graceful Ghosts: Across Two Decades, Rania Matar Photographs Lebanon Through War and Displacement
Review by Christian Jones
Civic Culture • Sep 02, 2026
ArtWonk: Who’s in Charge of National Arts Policy? Maybe No One
News by Kim Córdova
Online • Aug 31, 2026
Mounting Pressure: Lucy Raven Confronts Industrial Force at the ICA Watershed
Review by Lynne Cooney
Issue 16 • Aug 25, 2026
Shaping Sanctuary: In Conversation with Yinka Shonibare
Interview by J. Yolande Daniels
Online • Aug 18, 2026
“Avery, Gottlieb & Rothko: By the Sea” Shows How Three Midcentury Greats Were Shaped by the Shore and One Another
Review by David Curcio