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Online • Oct 07, 2026

Piep Haus Projects Opens in North Andover with Arthur Henderson’s Hand-Hewn World of Folk Story

Quick Bit by Monica Lynn Manoski

Online • Oct 06, 2026

“From Rock to Cloud”: Yu-Wen Wu Assembles Diasporic Lineages

Quick Bit by Wei Huang

Civic Culture • Oct 01, 2026

ArtWonk: What Does It Take to Make Precarity a Collective Cause in the Arts?

News by Kim Córdova

Online • Sep 29, 2026

Louisa Penfold Knows Every Child Is an Artist

Interview by Jacqueline Houton

UN-MONUMENT • Sep 25, 2026

Confronting the Ego: The Artist Behind King’s Chapel’s Monument

Feature by Harmonia Rosales

Issue 16 • Sep 22, 2026

Aspen Golann Goes Against the Grain

Profile by Nina MacLaughlin

Civic Culture • Sep 18, 2026

ArtWonk: Censorship, Threats of Demolition, and Other Signs of the Season

News by Kim Córdova

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

Various spreads from Boston Art Review's Issue 11: Emerge, spread on a grey background

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Online • Oct 07, 2026

Piep Haus Projects Opens in North Andover with Arthur Henderson’s Hand-Hewn World of Folk Story

A pie safe, a sausage rope, and a model of the universe are among the curious objects in Peasant’s Burlesque, curated by Stace Brandt.

Quick Bit by Monica Lynn Manoski

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Online • Oct 06, 2026

“From Rock to Cloud”: Yu-Wen Wu Assembles Diasporic Lineages

Quick Bit by Wei Huang

Online • Sep 29, 2026

Louisa Penfold Knows Every Child Is an Artist

Interview by Jacqueline Houton

UN-MONUMENT • Sep 25, 2026

Confronting the Ego: The Artist Behind King’s Chapel’s Monument

Feature by Harmonia Rosales

Civic Culture Desk

Civic Culture • Oct 01, 2026

ArtWonk: What Does It Take to Make Precarity a Collective Cause in the Arts?

At Company One Theatre’s Boston cultural policy event, artists, funders, and policymakers considered living wages and the beginnings of a collective agenda for the arts. Similar concerns surfaced in local talks by artist Josh Kline and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who each took aim at the growing concentration of wealth and the threats to democracy that arise from the prohibitive cost of participating in society.

News by Kim Córdova

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