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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

Online • Feb 18, 2025

In “Snail Drawings,” Daniel Ranalli Finds Beauty in the Slow and Slippery

Quick Bit by Katherine Schreiber

Four artists during an outdoor performance.

Issue 13 • Feb 04, 2025

Ripple Effect: Lani Asunción Confronts Colonial Pasts While Envisioning Liberated Futures

Feature by Grace Talusan

Pamphlet published by Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement

Issue 12 • Feb 04, 2025

Developing a Movement: How the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement Used Printed Matter to Protest Apartheid

Feature by Jovonna Jones

Issue 13 • Jan 28, 2025

Holding a Mirror to Heaven: Parallels Between the Shaker Era of Manifestations and Early Spiritualism Movements

Feature by Laura Campagna and Maria Molteni

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Online • Apr 22, 2025

Edvard Munch, Reprinted: A Study in Process at Harvard Art Museums

With over seventy works on view, the exhibition focuses on the mechanics of Munch’s innovative and obsessive processes rather than on his angst.

Review by David Curcio

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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

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Online • Mar 06, 2025

The Catastrophes of Charles Atlas: Fifty Years of Performance Caught on Camera

For his ICA/Boston exhibition, Atlas fractures his life’s work into pieces.

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

On February 15, Palm Press, owned by Gus Kayafas, welcomed community members and photographers of all experience levels into a newly designed space: a bookstore that will serve as a hub for photography education.

News by Emma Breitman