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Online • Aug 29, 2025

Porous Figures, Living Histories: Bob Thompson and Friends Return to Provincetown

Review by Cleo Harrington

Online • Aug 26, 2025

Affsoongar on Anonymity, Enchantment, and Survival

Interview by Sophie Howe

Online • Aug 26, 2025

Painting Geographies in the New Sublime: A Conversation with Wilhelm Neusser

Interview by Jorge S. Arango

Online • Aug 25, 2025

Program Recap: Navigating Queer Leadership and Resilience at Twenty Summers

Announcement by BAR Editorial

A gallery space features fiery imagery, a neon sign, and a ceramic sculpture.

Online • Aug 19, 2025

Inferno or Not, There’s Something for Everyone at Karma’s Summer Outpost in Maine

Quick Bit by Jorge S. Arango

Online • Aug 12, 2025

A New Collaboration Between NADA and Surf Point Attempts to Bring the Art World Center to the Edge of the Atlantic

News by Hilary Irons

Sculptures lie on a narrow, white table; paintings line the walls of a gallery.

Online • Aug 05, 2025

Spotlight on Maine: Dunes Launches Summer Lineup of Experimental Events in Portland

News by Hilary Irons

Online • Aug 03, 2025

Cultural Issues at the Heart of Boston’s Mayoral Race: Funding, Displacement, and Education

News by Marianna McMurdock

Online • Jul 29, 2025

Yorgos Efthymiadis’s Experimental Gallery, The Curated Fridge, Celebrates Ten Years

News by Emma Breitman

Online • Jul 14, 2025

At the Addison, June Leaf’s Retrospective Is a Theater for Absurdity with Text, Machines, and Bodies Intermingling

Review by Peter Murphy

Online • Jul 14, 2025

Pedro Gómez-Egaña’s Pendulums of Presence Teach Us Patience

Review by Joetta Maue

Online • Jul 08, 2025

Ambitious Local Micro Galleries Are Taking Art to Unexpected Places

Feature by Jacqueline Houton

Online • Jul 07, 2025

With the Boston Public Art Triennial, Four Indigenous Artists Reckon with Memory and Monuments 

Critical Perspective by Petala Ironcloud

Issue 12 • Jul 02, 2025

Party as Practice: How Nightlife Is Cultivating Creative Community in Boston

Feature by Gina Lindner

Online • Jul 01, 2025

Remembering Danielle Legros Georges and the History of the Dark Room Collective

Feature by Fallon Murphy

Online • Jun 30, 2025

Where Decoration Becomes Devotion: Spiritual Space and the Painted Cosmos of Lot #198

Feature by Nathan Hilyard

Online • Jun 20, 2025

A Lab for Listening, Visualizing Sound, and Collective Resonance at Fall River MoCA

Review by Shana Garr

Online • Jun 20, 2025

Elizabeth Atterbury’s Sculptures Disrupt the Familiar in “Leaf Litter”

Quick Bit by Kaitlyn Ovett Clark

Online • Jun 17, 2025

Nine Contemporary Artists Respond to an Overlooked Black History at Walden Woods in “Weaving an Address”

Review by Erwin Kamuene

Online • Jun 17, 2025

At This Dining-Room-Turned-Gallery in Arlington, "Hope of Suggestion" Captures Fleeting Florals

Review by Gina Lindner

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

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Online • Aug 25, 2025

Program Recap: Navigating Queer Leadership and Resilience at Twenty Summers

On August 9, Michael J. Bobbitt (Mass Cultural Council), Giselle Byrd (The Theater Offensive), Jameson Johnson (Boston Art Review), and Quil Lemons (curator of "American Faggot Party" at Stanley) discussed how shifting policies and cultural attacks impact their work and communities at a panel discussion moderated by Gavin Kennedy (Emergent Art Advisory).

Announcement by BAR Editorial

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Dispatches From Maine

A gallery space features fiery imagery, a neon sign, and a ceramic sculpture.

Online • Aug 19, 2025

Inferno or Not, There’s Something for Everyone at Karma’s Summer Outpost in Maine

Quick Bit by Jorge S. Arango


Online • Aug 12, 2025

A New Collaboration Between NADA and Surf Point Attempts to Bring the Art World Center to the Edge of the Atlantic

News by Hilary Irons


Sculptures lie on a narrow, white table; paintings line the walls of a gallery.

Online • Aug 05, 2025

Spotlight on Maine: Dunes Launches Summer Lineup of Experimental Events in Portland

News by Hilary Irons

Recent Interviews

Online • Aug 26, 2025

Affsoongar on Anonymity, Enchantment, and Survival

Speaking from Tehran under an alias, the self-taught artist reflects on her exhibition at Pulp in Holyoke, the alter ego she inhabits, and the parallel worlds where her figures resist patriarchy, religion, and war.

Interview by Sophie Howe

Online • Aug 26, 2025

Painting Geographies in the New Sublime: A Conversation with Wilhelm Neusser

Artist Wilhelm Neusser draws on historical landscape painting traditions, but transcends them to explore deeper psychologies of place.

Interview by Jorge S. Arango