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A darkened nightclub scene that depicts a group of people dancing.

Civic Culture • Jul 22, 2026

ArtWonk: Heritage Foundation Behind Attacks on Smithsonian and MA State Senate “Fun Coalition” Declares War on Boring

News by Kim Córdova

An overhead view of weaving looms in a craft school.

Issue 16 • Jul 21, 2026

Threads of Continuity at the Saunderstown Weaving School

Feature by Yutong Shi

Online • Jul 21, 2026

The Work of Art: “Performing Conditions” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center

Review by Dina Ramadan

Issue 16 • Jul 14, 2026

“Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now” Traces Five Decades of Black Artistic Production

Review by Alisa Prince

Online • Jul 14, 2026

Felicia Megginson’s Self-Portraits Recast Black Presence in Nature

Review by Gabrielle Walker

Civic Culture • Jul 09, 2026

ArtWonk: Nothing Says “Happy Birthday, America” like Attacking the Smithsonian and Violating the Rules of Soccer

News by Kim Córdova

Online • Jul 07, 2026

Tracing Maine’s Artistic Legacies at Farnsworth Art Museum

Review by Jorge S. Arango

A woman is seated in an armchair in a studio featuring crocheted artworks.

Online • Jul 07, 2026

Following the Thread: In Conversation with Celeste Diaz Falzone

Interview by Rene Zhang

Online • Jul 06, 2026

Rania Abdalla Kadafour’s Soft-Relief Sculptures Test the Limits of Legibility

Profile by Garry Nitz

Issue 16 • Jul 02, 2026

Bicentennial Blues, Now

Feature by Brian Boyles

Online • Jun 30, 2026

Beyond Boston: Eleven Summer Exhibitions Worth the Drive

Feature by BAR Editorial

Issue 16 • Jun 29, 2026

The Boston Athenaeum Brings Constantine Manos’s 1970s Photo Archive Back into Focus

Feature by Shuchi Saraswat

Online • Jun 26, 2026

In “Even As We Grieve,” Peter Bruun Invites Us to Turn Toward One Another

Review by Shana Garr

Civic Culture • Jun 25, 2026

ArtWonk: Summertime Brings the World Cup, Tall Ships, and MA250, but Where Are the Arts?

News by Kim Córdova

Online • Jun 24, 2026

Come as You Are: “Better Angels” by Heather Kapplow, June 26–28

Review by Boston Public Art Triennial (Partner Post)

An artist rests on a ladder in her studio for a portrait.

Issue 16 • Jun 23, 2026

Rixy Reimagines Revolution

Feature by Melaine Ferdinand-King

An installation view shows hanging portraits and a stereoscope.

Online • Jun 17, 2026

At the New Bedford Whaling Museum, “Look Pleasant, Please” Captures a City Learning to See Itself

Review by Nathan Hilyard

Online • Jun 15, 2026

Curator Grant Wahlquist Brings Ambitious Vision to the Center for Maine Contemporary Art

Profile by Jorge S. Arango

Civic Culture • Jun 12, 2026

ArtWonk: “Fund Us or Fail Us,” Boston Budget Approval Process Slouches into Chaos

News by Kim Córdova

A person meditates outdoors on a sunny day.

Online • Jun 09, 2026

Come Dream Together on the Summer Solstice and Juneteenth

News by Wagner Foundation (Partner Post)

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Online • Jul 21, 2026

The Work of Art: “Performing Conditions” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center

The exhibition probes the material realities of labor by foregrounding the infrastructures that shape artistic production.

Review by Dina Ramadan

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An overhead view of weaving looms in a craft school.

Issue 16 • Jul 21, 2026

Threads of Continuity at the Saunderstown Weaving School

Feature by Yutong Shi


Issue 16 • Jul 14, 2026

“Say It Loud: AAMARP, 1977 to Now” Traces Five Decades of Black Artistic Production

Review by Alisa Prince


Online • Jul 14, 2026

Felicia Megginson’s Self-Portraits Recast Black Presence in Nature

Review by Gabrielle Walker

Civic Culture Desk

A darkened nightclub scene that depicts a group of people dancing.

Civic Culture • Jul 22, 2026

ArtWonk: Heritage Foundation Behind Attacks on Smithsonian and MA State Senate “Fun Coalition” Declares War on Boring

A congressional hearing reveals the Heritage Foundation’s role in Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian. Meanwhile, Massachusetts state senators seek to shed the Commonwealth’s killjoy reputation with a suite of amendments to the $325 million economic development bill designed to support cultural spaces, artists, and, yes, bars. Among the fun coalition’s goals: repealing the 1984 happy hour ban.

News by Kim Córdova

Civic Culture • Jul 09, 2026

ArtWonk: Nothing Says “Happy Birthday, America” like Attacking the Smithsonian and Violating the Rules of Soccer

A new White House report targeting the Smithsonian makes clear that museums are only one piece of a much broader cultural policy agenda. Plus: the Creative Space Act reaches a critical moment on Beacon Hill, New York expands arts funding, and labor organizers strike at the Guggenheim.

News by Kim Córdova