Kim Córdova

Arts Policy & Civic Engagement Editor

Kim Córdova is an art writer and journalist whose work is focused on the intersection of culture and politics. Originally from Pasadena, she is a graduate of SOMA in Mexico City and holds a master’s from Harvard. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a fellow with CEC ArtsLink, the Atlantic Council, Eisenhower Fellowships, and the German Marshall Fund.

Kim joined the Boston Art Review team in October, 2025, thanks to a two-year grant from the Barr Foundation supporting the development of a new arts policy and civic engagement vertical.

Kim Córdova

Kim Córdova

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ArtWonk: Austerity Comes for the Biennale

Over 150 Artists and Arts Administrators Turn out to Testify at the City Council Ways and Means Budget Hearing as City Council Cites “Limited Power”

ArtWonk: Budgets, Brouhahas, and Beowolff

Mayor Wu’s Cut to FY 2027 Arts Budget Reveals Broader History of Underinvestment in the Arts and Leaves Programs in Limbo

ArtWonk: Amid a Week of Whiplash, Wu Aims to Slash Arts Budget

ArtWonk: Building a Bigger Tent for the Arts Ecosystem

Boston’s New Chief of Arts and Culture, Joseph Zeal-Henry, on His Vision for Cultural Policy in City Governance

ArtWonk: Praise Shadows Lands in Boston, Ché Anderson to Lead Search for New MCC ED, Art Market Reports, and Dunkin’s Back in the Culture Wars

Art Wonk: Biweekly Reporting from the Frontlines of Art, Culture, Policy, and Politics

Whither Local Art Journalism Amidst the Collapse of the World Order?

Brown Faculty Protest Elimination of Bell Gallery Curators in Letter Alleging Governance Violations

MFA Boston Layoffs Thrust the Museum into a Credibility Crisis with Staff and Publics

The Exit Interview: Mass Cultural Council's Executive Director, Michael J. Bobbitt, on a Pioneering Five Years

New England Foundation for the Arts Receives $17M Unrestricted Gift from MacKenzie Scott

ICA / Boston Introduces Artist Pass for Massachusetts Creatives

At the State House, Artists Speak Up for Policies to Support Massachusetts’s Creative Economy

Design Studio for Social Intervention on Twenty Years of Social Practice for Civic Engagement