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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

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

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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

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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

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

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Issue 14 • Apr 28, 2025

Portals to Power: Fabiola Jean-Louis at the Gardner

In “Waters of the Abyss: An Intersection of Spirit and Freedom,” Jean-Louis transposes Black femme futurities onto the colonial walls of the Gardner, turning stillness into subversion and paper into portals.

Review by Thea Quiray Tagle

Issue 14 • May 06, 2025

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

At the Rose Art Museum, Hayden’s sculptural survey carves through the thorns of US history, braiding together beauty, survival, and the brutal education behind Black selfhood.

Review by Darla Migan