Fine Arts
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MFA Opens New Contemporary Galleries
Gift of Wyss Foundation
By: - Dec 13th, 2025The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has announced that a suite of new galleries dedicated to modern art will open to the public on December 13. Four new spaces will be unveiled on the first floor of the Museum’s Evans Wing, each showcasing works from the 20th century that include highlights from the MFA’s collection, new acquisitions, and rarely seen loans from private holdings.
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A Wake for Woke
Trump's Assault on the Arts
By: - Dec 13th, 2025During the next five year cycle when conceiving and funding ambitious exhibitions, administrators, foundations and trustees will keep a watchful eye on potential offenses against the government’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion.
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Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977
ICA Boston
By: - Jan 15th, 2026Founded in 1977 by influential artist, educator, and activist Dana C. Chandler, Jr., the African American Master Artists-in-Residence Program (AAMARP) at Northeastern University is one of the few longstanding residency programs for Black artists in the United States. For nearly five decades, AAMARP has stood at the intersection of art, activism, and community.
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Yinka Shonibare's Sanctuary
Rose Art Museum
By: - Jan 16th, 2026The installation consists of 18 scaled-down replicas of historical and contemporary buildings that have served—and, in many cases, continue to serve—as places of refuge for persecuted and vulnerable groups or individuals. These structures range from ancient temples and medieval cathedrals to modern safe houses and shelters.
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Photorealism in Focus
Rose Art Museum
By: - Jan 21st, 2026Emerging in the late 1960s during an era of rapid technological change and inspired by the visual language of commercial imagery, Photorealism took shape as artists such as Richard Estes, Charles S. Bell, Ralph Goings, and others created painstakingly detailed paintings based on photographs that pushed the limits of illusion. These artists challenged traditional hierarchies between photography and painting while capturing the nuanced textures of contemporary experience.
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Art in Bloom at the MFA
A Fifty Year Tradition
By: - Jan 21st, 2026Framing Nature coincides with the 50th anniversary of Art in Bloom (May 1 through May 3, 2026). This beloved tradition pairs art with floral interpretations created by New England area garden clubs, professional floral designers, and volunteers.
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Thomas Messer and the Early Years of the ICA
Aborted Plan to Merge with the MFA
By: - Jan 21st, 2026From 1957 to 1961, Thomas Messer was director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and, for part of that time, taught modern art at Harvard. From 1961 to 1988 he was director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. For a time there was a plan to merge the ICA as the modern/ contemporary department of the MFA. The ICA was briefly housed on the second floor of the Museum School. He advised on a couple of adventurous MFA acquisitions. A contemporary department was eventually established in 1971.
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Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal
Museum of FIne Arts
By: - Jan 22nd, 2026Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal explores the origins of these popular prints— which have historically been overlooked by the art world—and their powerful impacts on Indian pop culture, religion, and society.
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Esther Bell New Clark Director
Assumes Position in July
By: - Jan 29th, 2026The Board unanimously elected Esther Bell to the position following an extensive international search. Bell will be the first woman in the Clark’s seventy-year history to serve as its director. She succeeds Olivier Meslay, who announced last September that he would be leaving the Clark and returning to his native France in 2026.
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Jodi Colella at Boston Sculptors
Dangerously Close to Home
By: - Jan 30th, 2026Jodi Colella’s rag rugs, lace doilies, and decorative hand towels flaunt quirky sayings lifted from a century’s old word game. Recontextualizing period phrases to capture the language of 21st century culture, Colella reflects today’s coded patterns of speech and cleverly bypasses polite norms.
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Sónia Almeida: Stages
At the Clark Art Institute
By: - Feb 03rd, 2026The Clark Art Institute continues its art in public spaces program in 2026 with a year-long installation presenting the work of artist Sónia Almeida (b. 1978, Lisbon; lives and works in Boston).
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ICA Director Sue Thurman
Thriving on Newbury Street
By: - Feb 13th, 2026From its inception in 1936, the Institute of Contemporary Art has endured a daunting existential struggle. As late as 1971 the Museum of Fine Arts appointed a part time curator of contemporary art. Lack of interest for modern and contemporary art resulted in a community which did not significantly support institutions, collectors, galleries and artists. The story of the ICA represents the struggle to overcome that indifference. Relocated to Newbury Street, it thrived from 1963-1968 under director Sue Thurman.
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Alexander Calder: The Nature of Movement
Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota., Florida
By: - Feb 16th, 2026After lunch, my father and I followed Calder down a short path that led to the high-ceilinged studio. which sat on a plateau where the “vultures” I’d noticed from afar, came into view as a flock of stabiles. They were mostly black, a few red, enormous and, despite their stationary nature, seemed as if they were poised to take off at any minute.
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Masiko Kamiya's Vessels
At Gallery NAGA
By: - Feb 18th, 2026In this recent series of paintings, Kamiya offers a profound visual translation of the physical self, deeply rooted in her personal experience with bilateral hip dysplasia. As this ailment has grown more acute, her focus has shifted toward a search for dependable balance within the asymmetrical relationship.
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Andy Moerlein at Boston Sculptors
Storyteller's Doubt
By: - Feb 27th, 2026Boston Sculptors Gallery presents A Storyteller’s Doubt, a selection of Andy Moerlein’s newest work on view April 2 – May 3, 2026. Offering larger than life woodcarvings as well as paintings, photographic collage and an immersive installation, the show also features collaborations with two esteemed colleagues.
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Jason Berger at Childs Gallery
A Founder of Boston's Direct Vision
By: - Mar 10th, 2026Jason Berger created a gestural style of landscape painting that he promoted as Direct Vision. It relates to French art, where Berger worked with a Traveling Fellowship upon graduation from the Museum School. He and his wife, Marilyn Powers, were active in Newbury Street galleries. The best works were brushy and expressive with saturated color. The white of canvas gave the sense of sketches and watercolors.
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Art in Bloom at the MFA
50th Anniversary of Spring Event
By: - Mar 18th, 2026The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), celebrates the return of spring with the 50th anniversary of its beloved Art in Bloom festival, taking place from Friday, May 1, through Sunday, May 3. Since 1976, this annual celebration has paired art from the MFA’s collection—from ancient to contemporary—with floral interpretations created by New England garden clubs, professional designers, and MFA floral volunteers.
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Carla Munsat, 1938-2026
Co Founded Art New England
By: - Mar 18th, 2026Carla Munsat (1938-2026) a beloved publisher, editor and friend has passed away. With Stephanie Adelman they co founded Art New England in 1975. They had no prior journalistic or business experience. The publication slowly evolved to have a graphic and editorial identity. At its peak it was widely read and influential. At the time they identified and fulfilled a significant need.
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Spatial Poems at Mass MoCA
Cecilia Vicuña, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and Sam Frésquez.
By: - Mar 19th, 2026MASS MoCA is pleased to present Spatial Poems, a communal exhibition in three concurrent parts developed by CEI Fellow Marissa Del Toro in collaboration with guest curators Ninabah Winton and Jamillah Hinson. The exhibition features the work of artists Cecilia Vicuña, Lola Ayisha Ogbara, and Sam Frésquez.
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Glow Ocean, at Future Lab(s) Gallery, North Adams, MA
And NO KINGS DAY, both March 28
By: - Mar 26th, 2026The Future Lab (s) Gallery, 43 Eagle Street, in North Adams, Massachusetts, is currently inviting to the closing event of their 'Glow Ocean' exhibition on Friday, March 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will be open one final time on Saturday, 3/28, from 1-3 p.m, so that protesters from North Adams and other visitors can still experience this immersive glow show. The 3rd NO KINGS DAY! is happening in all 50 Sates of the USA on Saturday, March 28, 2026
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Peri Schwartz at Gallery NAGA
Reverberations: Fifty Years of Still Lifes
By: - Mar 26th, 2026Reverberations showcases the range of Schwartz's treatment of still life within the self-imposed set of subject matter limitations and the confines of her studio. Gradually, the artist shifted away from more traditional compositions of stoneware and fruit toward non-organic forms, illuminated by strong natural light and vibrantly colored liquids or subdued in sepia and monochrome
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Glow Ocean, at Future Lab(s) Gallery, North Adams, MA
And NO KINGS DAY, both March 28
By: - Mar 26th, 2026The Future Lab (s) Gallery, 43 Eagle Street, in North Adams, Massachusetts, is currently inviting to the closing event of their 'Glow Ocean' exhibition on Friday, March 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will be open one final time on Saturday, 3/28, from 1-3 p.m, so that protesters from North Adams and other visitors can still experience this immersive glow show. The 3rd NO KINGS DAY! is happening in all 50 Sates of the USA on Saturday, March 28, 2026
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Ric Haynes at Hallspace
The Shape of Things
By: - Apr 03rd, 2026His figures are friendly monsters: part human, part animal, part spirit. Haynes is a storyteller, an American humanist with a long history of supporting those that need the most help.
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David Hockney's California Dreaming
Subdued Met Retrospective of a Pioneer of Pop
By: - Jan 31st, 2018While described as a retrospective in eight galleries with just 60 paintings, 21 portrait drawings and five of his ground-breaking “Joiner” photo collages the David Hockney exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a bit of a tease. Now 80 when Hockney depicted homosexuality during the 1960s it was still illegal in Great Britain. He left for the laid back lifesyle of LA in 1964 and now commutes between continents. The exhibition is on view through February 25.
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Centerbeam at ZKM/Karlsruhe, Germany
Exhibition and Symposium until October 1st
By: - Aug 11th, 2017The exhibition to celebrate 'Centerbeam’s' 40 th anniversary has been open since mid May in Karlsruhe. On September 2nd ZKM will host ten representatives of the original participants on location or via skype. The symposium should deliver lively discussions of the past and perhaps a way forward to recreate 'Centerbeam,' a third time, in the near future.
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