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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

Online • Mar 16, 2025

Multiple Formats Art Book Fair and Symposium Returns for its Fourth Iteration

Announcement by Multiple Fairs Art Book Fair and Symposium (Partner Post)

Online • Mar 06, 2025

The Catastrophes of Charles Atlas: Fifty Years of Performance Caught on Camera

Review by Zach Ngin

New and used photography books line the shelves of Boston's only photo bookstore.

Online • Mar 04, 2025

Palm Press Opens Boston’s Only Photography Bookstore, Launching a New Third Space for Creatives

News by Emma Breitman

Online • Feb 28, 2025

This Week, Three Boston Art Schools Collaborate for a Citywide Open Studios Event

News by Yoko Zhu

Online • Feb 26, 2025

Announcing the 2025 Emerging Boston Art Writing Fellows

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Three women participating in a panel discussion.

Online • Feb 25, 2025

Celebrating Art, Legacy, and Liberation at Northeastern's bell hooks symposium

Feature by Gabrielle Mitchell-Bonds

Collaged mixed-media works on a gallery wall.

Online • Feb 18, 2025

Photographer Zora J Murff's Collages Ask Audiences to Pay Attention

Quick Bit by Erwin Kamuene

Online • Feb 18, 2025

In “Snail Drawings,” Daniel Ranalli Finds Beauty in the Slow and Slippery

Quick Bit by Katherine Schreiber

Four artists during an outdoor performance.

Issue 13 • Feb 04, 2025

Ripple Effect: Lani Asunción Confronts Colonial Pasts While Envisioning Liberated Futures

Feature by Grace Talusan

Pamphlet published by Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement

Issue 12 • Feb 04, 2025

Developing a Movement: How the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement Used Printed Matter to Protest Apartheid

Feature by Jovonna Jones

Issue 13 • Jan 28, 2025

Holding a Mirror to Heaven: Parallels Between the Shaker Era of Manifestations and Early Spiritualism Movements

Feature by Laura Campagna and Maria Molteni

Online • Jan 28, 2025

Fourteen Exhibitions Opening in Massachusetts this Winter

Feature by BAR Editorial

Online • Jan 26, 2025

Victoria Burge Maps the Massive, the Minuscule, and the Mysterious

Profile by Marcus Civin

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Online • Apr 01, 2025

At Tufts, Mobius Considers How Performance Endures Beyond the Moment

Through archival records and embodied transmissions, “an archive and/or a repertoire” displays over forty years of the artist-run organization's survival and evolution.

Review by Clara Maria Apostolatos

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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

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Online • Mar 06, 2025

The Catastrophes of Charles Atlas: Fifty Years of Performance Caught on Camera

For his ICA/Boston exhibition, Atlas fractures his life’s work into pieces.

Review by Zach Ngin

New and used photography books line the shelves of Boston's only photo bookstore.

Online • Mar 04, 2025

Palm Press Opens Boston’s Only Photography Bookstore, Launching a New Third Space for Creatives

On February 15, Palm Press, owned by Gus Kayafas, welcomed community members and photographers of all experience levels into a newly designed space: a bookstore that will serve as a hub for photography education.

News by Emma Breitman