Announcement
Announcing the Boston University 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
This year’s Thesis Exhibitions are hosted in three installments, both on-campus and in Boston’s SoWA Arts District.
Massachusetts
Art
Harry Dodge Presents Love as a Tool for Discovery
Dodge’s work implies that you’ll eventually have to rethink love formally in order to reconcile technology and humanity.
Announcement
Join the Lesley Low-Res MFA Program this June in Boston/Cambridge
Designed for working professionals. Applications are due May 15 for the June 21–30 residency program.
Art
Botticelli Through a Graphic Novelist’s Eye
For Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes, the painter, cartoonist, and graphic novelist Karl Stevens was called in to provide interpretive drawings of the Renaissance master's paintings.
Art
The Horrors and Delights of the Surrealist Subconscious
Two exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art revel in the unique strangeness of one’s mind.
Art
Jack Bush’s Stripes and Solids
These paintings are more than color-field eye candy and hold their own as engaging abstracts.
News
A Former Guggenheim Director Thinks Museums Need to be More Like Theme Parks
Thomas Krens has launched an ambitious and sprawling plan to reinvent a Massachusetts town, drawing massive amounts of tourism to the region with new, for-profit cultural spaces.
Announcement
The Bauhaus and Harvard on View at the Harvard Art Museums
Expansive exhibition features works by major artists, including student exercises, design objects, photographs, textiles, typography, paintings, and archival materials.
Art
The Artist Who Preserved the Vanishing Technology of Knots
Thou Shalt Knot at the New Bedford Whaling Museum celebrates the legacy of Clifford W. Ashley, artist and author of the most influential book on knots.
Art
Moon as Muse: Centuries of Artistic Interpretations of Earth’s Mysterious Satellite
Through around 60 historical and contemporary objects, Lunar Attraction at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem considers the enduring artistic curiosity for the mysteries of the moon.
Art
Rescuing the Logbooks of 19th-Century Whaling Ships
Each whaling ship that departed the northeastern United States carried a logbook aboard, in which whale hunts, shipwrecks, weather conditions, and daily sailing life were recorded.
Art
Wind-Powered Sculptures Designed to Outlive Us All
For over two decades, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been designing kinetic sculptures of large, skeletal creatures that shuffle across beaches, powered solely by the wind.