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Online • 12/04/2023

2023 Holiday Gift Guide

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Our favorite gifts from Boston-area small businesses and makers

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Installation view of "2023 Foster Prize" at ICA/Boston

Online • 09/06/2023

Fourteen Exhibitions to Catch This Fall

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Online • 09/01/2023

At Beacon Gallery, Photographer Cheryl Miller Captures Eternal Communities

Review by Alisa Prince
Installation view of "Kathy Butterly, Lynne Drexler, Marley Freeman" at Karma in Maine

Online • 08/29/2023

At Karma’s Summer Outpost in Maine, Color Breaks the Silence of a Former Church

Quick Bit by Hilary Irons
Installation view of “That Queer Fish” at Parsonage Gallery

Online • 08/29/2023

Brian Smith Explores Aquatic Futures in “That Queer Fish”

Review by Karolina Hać

Online • 08/26/2023

Five Questions with Filmmaker Lilan Yang

Interview by Delia Harrington

Online • 08/25/2023

Elizabeth Colomba’s “Mythologies” Reclaims Whitewashed Narratives

Review by Jessica Shearer
Installation view of “PERSONA" at Gallery VERY.

Online • 08/22/2023

Portraits and Perception: At Gallery VERY, Familiar Faces Line the Walls of “PERSONA”

Quick Bit by Poppy Livingstone

Online • 08/14/2023

A Trove of Donelan’s Queer Cartoons Delights at Jameson & Thompson

Quick Bit by Claire Ogden
Installation view of “Matthew Wong: The Realm of Appearances at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Online • 08/07/2023

A Short but Winding Road in Matthew Wong’s Paintings at MFA, Boston

Review by Karolina Hać

Issue 10: Recall • 07/25/2023

Learning and Imagining Reparations with the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics

Critical Perspective by Erik DeLuca

Issue 10: Recall • 07/18/2023

Passing the Torch: Edmund Barry Gaither and Danny Rivera on Organizing and Keeping the Faith

Conversation by Alula Hunsen, Danny Rivera, and Edmund Barry Gaither
Installation view of "The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina" at the Museum of Fine Arts

Online • 07/07/2023

The Undeniable Legacy of Edgefield’s Black Potters Rings Loud and Clear at the MFA

Review by Lian Parsons-Thomason
Installation View of "Kate Greene: Black Sun" at Grant Wahlquist Gallery in Portland, Maine

Online • 07/06/2023

Kate Greene’s “Black Sun” Toys With Photographic Distortion at Grant Wahlquist Gallery

Review by Hilary Irons
Image of "Touch" by Kristen Emack

Online • 07/04/2023

Capturing Childhood: In Conversation with Photographer Kristen Emack 

Interview by Bethany Ericson
Portrait of Lyle Ashton Harris by Jamel Robinson.

Issue 10: Recall • 06/28/2023

Mapping Obsessão: In Conversation with Lyle Ashton Harris

Interview by Jameson Johnson
Image of students at the Dante Alighieri Montessori School painting a mural in East Boston

Online • 06/26/2023

From Murals to Movements: How Street Art Is Transforming East Boston and Beyond

Feature by Dana Forsythe

Online • 06/26/2023

Covert Operations: Tyler Coburn and Ian Hatcher’s Remote Viewer Explores CIA Seances

Interview by Hilary Irons

Online • 06/20/2023

Take the Day: Fourteen Exhibitions That Warrant Art-Filled Trips Across New England

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Online • 06/18/2023

Imagining with Imagine W/: Circle Squared Screens Black Artist Conversations at the ICA for Juneteenth

Feature by Alula Hunsen
Film still from "Fifty-Four Days" by Catherine White. A Black woman floats alone in a body of water.

Online • 06/14/2023

Juneteenth 2023: Cultural and Community Gatherings Across Boston

Roundup by Niara Simone Hightower

Online • 06/13/2023

Lucy Kim’s Vibrant Matter Mystifies and Enchants in “Dead or Dormant” at ODD-KIN

Review by Kendall DeBoer