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Online • May 29, 2025

“Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory” Calls Upon Remembrance as Act of Liberation

Review by Alisa Prince

Online • May 27, 2025

Mapping the Marvelous: “Wonders of Creation” Charts the Interplay of Art, Science, and Spirit in Islamic Culture

Review by Michael Medeiros

Online • May 27, 2025

Where Transit Takes Us: All Aboard for Art in New Bedford

Feature by Jacqueline Houton

Online • May 22, 2025

Reflecting, Refracting, and Resetting: Maggie Stark’s “Shadow Light” at Fort Hall Gallery

Review by Kaitlyn Ovett Clark

Issue 14 • May 20, 2025

"Temporarily Ours" Finds Belonging in the Margins

Review by Michael Medeiros

Online • May 19, 2025

Group Show “Willful Dialects” Refuses a Frame for Asian Diasporic Artists in Boston

Review by Swagato Chakravorty

Issue 14 • May 13, 2025

Julien Creuzet Brings the Sounds of the Atlantic to Brown's Bell Gallery

Review by Karla Méndez

Online • May 08, 2025

In Photos: The Boston Art Review Issue 14 Launch Party

Feature by BAR Editorial

Body-based artwork covers the wall of a gallery.

Online • May 06, 2025

Multiplicity as Resistance: "Body Politics" at Gallery 263

Quick Bit by Zaryah Qareeb

Issue 14 • May 06, 2025

Hugh Hayden’s “Home Work” Dismantles the Architecture of the American Dream

Review by Darla Migan

Issue 14 • Apr 28, 2025

Portals to Power: Fabiola Jean-Louis at the Gardner

Review by Thea Quiray Tagle

Online • Apr 22, 2025

Edvard Munch, Reprinted: A Study in Process at Harvard Art Museums

Review by David Curcio

Issue 12 • Apr 16, 2025

Bodies as Geographies, Paper, Mountains: In Conversation with Hong Hong

Interview by Danni Shen

Online • Apr 14, 2025

Martha Schnee’s Embodied Archaeology and the Politics of Imagination

Quick Bit by Alyssa Gaines

Online • Apr 14, 2025

Body, Light, and Other Portals: On Leah Piepgras’s Sensory Light Realms

Quick Bit by Jane Freiman

A landscape artwork and sculptures hung from the ceiling of a gallery space.

Online • Apr 01, 2025

“Disintegration” at Gallery VERY Warps Landscapes, Bodies, and Time

Quick Bit by Nathan Hilyard

Online • Apr 01, 2025

At Tufts, Mobius Considers How Performance Endures Beyond the Moment

Review by Clara Maria Apostolatos

L’Merchie Frazier, Daniela Rivera, and Wen-ti Tsen by Mel Taing.

Online • Mar 26, 2025

Wagner Foundation Announces Inaugural Wagner Arts Fellowship and Artist Awardees

Announcement by Wagner Foundation (Partner Post)

Color swatches, a sandbox, and an assortment of objects in a gallery space.

Online • Mar 25, 2025

Not Too Deep: At Providence College Galleries, a Sandbox for Playing with Memories

Review by Jane Freiman

Online • Mar 18, 2025

John Shen Conjures Singular Images by Capturing Multitudes

Review by Swagato Chakravorty

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Online • May 27, 2025

Where Transit Takes Us: All Aboard for Art in New Bedford

With the Commuter Rail extension complete, six artists and cultural leaders, including Lindsay Miś, Meclina Gomes, Hendrick Hernandez-Resto, Andy Anello, Elizabeth King Stanton, and Hadis Tourikarami, share their recommendations for a visit to the South Coast’s largest city this summer.

Feature by Jacqueline Houton

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Online • May 27, 2025

Mapping the Marvelous: “Wonders of Creation” Charts the Interplay of Art, Science, and Spirit in Islamic Culture

Review by Michael Medeiros

Online • May 22, 2025

Reflecting, Refracting, and Resetting: Maggie Stark’s “Shadow Light” at Fort Hall Gallery

Review by Kaitlyn Ovett Clark

Online • May 19, 2025

Group Show “Willful Dialects” Refuses a Frame for Asian Diasporic Artists in Boston

Review by Swagato Chakravorty

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Online • May 29, 2025

“Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory” Calls Upon Remembrance as Act of Liberation

At the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, the exhibition presents memory as both a method and mandate for liberation, tracing the afterlives of history through photography, film, and archival intervention.

Review by Alisa Prince

Online • May 08, 2025

In Photos: The Boston Art Review Issue 14 Launch Party

On Saturday, May 3, over 600 guests joined us inside Quincy Market at Faneuil Hall to celebrate our latest print issue at our biggest party of the year.

Feature by BAR Editorial