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Three concrete sculptures made to look like chairs are situated in a line in a large field.

Online • Sep 15, 2026

Outdoors and In: Fractured Legacies of Modernism

Review by Jess Wilcox

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 • Sep 01, 2026

A Late-Summer Guide to Maine's Art Spaces

Feature by Jessica Shearer

Inside an industrial space, a set of metal bleachers faces a vertical screen displaying an image of rushing water through a cavern.

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

Four panelists converse, seated in front of a screen on a stage.

Civic Culture • Aug 20, 2026

ArtWonk: Is Art Media Finally Getting a Seat at the Journalism Table?

News by Kim Córdova

Large paintings lit from above line the walls of a darkened gallery space.

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

A man sits on a stool surrounded by figural metal sculptures.

Issue 16 • Aug 18, 2026

Where Bodies Gather: In Conversation with Benjamin Spalding

Interview by Kaitlyn Ovett Clark

A two-tier sculpture hangs to the left of a large, textile collage on a gallery wall.

Online • Aug 11, 2026

No Idyllic Landscapes at Overlap Art Space

Review by Charlie Usadi

Two circle graphs showing survey results on the effects of funding cuts on New England arts and culture institutions.

Civic Culture • Aug 05, 2026

ArtWonk: Survey Reveals $13.5 Million in Grant Cuts from New England Arts Organizations

News by Kim Córdova

In a dark room, a woman kneels beside a sculpture of a bug illuminated from above and below.

Online • Aug 04, 2026

Morphologies of Emergence: In Conversation with Martha Poggioli

Interview by Isabella Cilia

A triptych hangs to the right of a curved doorway in a gallery.

Online • Aug 04, 2026

In “On an Overgrown Path,” Matt Saunders Traverses the Space Between Mediums

Quick Bit by John A. Tyson

Online • Jul 28, 2026

Sal Lopes’s “Living with AIDS” Returns to the Neighborhood He Documented Thirty Years Prior

Quick Bit by Melanie Litwin

Two CRT monitors rest on pedestals in the center of a gallery, flanked on either side by blue watercolor works.

Online • Jul 27, 2026

In “Tonight the Sky,” Suara Welitoff Holds Time Open

Review by Joao Santos

A darkened nightclub scene that depicts a group of people dancing.

Civic Culture • Jul 22, 2026

ArtWonk: Heritage Foundation Behind Attacks on Smithsonian and MA State Senate “Fun Coalition” Declares War on Boring

News by Kim Córdova

An overhead view of weaving looms in a craft school.

Issue 16 • Jul 21, 2026

Threads of Continuity at the Saunderstown Weaving School

Feature by Yutong Shi

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Online • Sep 15, 2026

Editors’ Picks: Twelve Exhibitions Opening in Massachusetts This Fall

From Faith Ringgold at Mount Holyoke to Mark Dion at the Concord Museum and Jess T. Dugan in Provincetown, our picks are keeping us east of 91.

Feature by BAR Editorial

Featured Articles

Three concrete sculptures made to look like chairs are situated in a line in a large field.

Online • Sep 15, 2026

Outdoors and In: Fractured Legacies of Modernism

Review by Jess Wilcox

Online • Sep 03, 2026

Graceful Ghosts: Across Two Decades, Rania Matar Photographs Lebanon Through War and Displacement

Review by Christian Jones

Online • Sep 10, 2026

The Rabkin Foundation Announces Winners of the 2026 Rabkin Prizes

News by Rabkin Foundation (Partner Post)

Civic Culture Desk

Civic Culture • Sep 02, 2026

ArtWonk: Who’s in Charge of National Arts Policy? Maybe No One

From the PolicyLink Summit’s arts and culture “caucus” to a federal hearing over Trump’s threatened Kennedy Center demolition, ArtWonk reports from DC. Plus, a Kehinde Wiley piece is removed from a US embassy, Mexico may lose a trove of Frida Kahlo pieces, and more.

News by Kim Córdova

Four panelists converse, seated in front of a screen on a stage.

Civic Culture • Aug 20, 2026

ArtWonk: Is Art Media Finally Getting a Seat at the Journalism Table?

BAR hit the road on the 2026 journalism conference circuit, attending convenings hosted by Investigative Reporters and Editors, Momus, and the Knight Foundation. There, we found cautious signs that arts journalism and its infrastructure may finally be entering broader conversations about the future of media.

News by Kim Córdova