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An artist holds up artwork made of coiled fabric.

Online • Jun 13, 2025

Nirmal Raja’s Interdisciplinary Practice Maps South Asian Memory Across Materials

Interview by Swagato Chakravorty

Online • Jun 10, 2025

Off the Main Drag: Ten Summer Gallery Shows Worth the Visit 

Feature by BAR Editorial

Online • Jun 10, 2025

Women on the Verge: Five Museums in Maine Showcase Nicole Wittenberg and Ann Craven

Feature by Jorge S. Arango

Issue 14 • Jun 10, 2025

At the MFA, John Wilson’s Retrospective Focuses on Process and Legacy 

Review by Jacquinn Sinclair

Online • Jun 08, 2025

Tracing Light: Milisa Moses Captures the Sun’s Touch on the Outer Cape

Review by Gray Goldberg

Online • Jun 06, 2025

“Circle of the Sun” Provides an Intimate Look at the Arctic

Review by Jessica Shearer

Online • Jun 03, 2025

The Season for Slow Looking: Ten Museum Exhibitions To Catch Across New England This Summer

Feature by BAR Editorial

Issue 14 • Jun 03, 2025

Hannah Altman's Photographs Suspend Light and Lineage

Review by Joetta Maue

Issue 14 • May 31, 2025

The Bounty of the Berkshires' Summertime Art Attractions

Feature by Lauren Levato Coyne

Online • May 29, 2025

“Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory” Calls Upon Remembrance as Act of Liberation

Review by Alisa Prince

Online • May 27, 2025

Mapping the Marvelous: “Wonders of Creation” Charts the Interplay of Art, Science, and Spirit in Islamic Culture

Review by Michael Medeiros

Online • May 27, 2025

Where Transit Takes Us: All Aboard for Art in New Bedford

Feature by Jacqueline Houton

Online • May 22, 2025

Reflecting, Refracting, and Resetting: Maggie Stark’s “Shadow Light” at Fort Hall Gallery

Review by Kaitlyn Ovett Clark

Issue 14 • May 20, 2025

"Temporarily Ours" Finds Belonging in the Margins

Review by Michael Medeiros

Online • May 19, 2025

Group Show “Willful Dialects” Refuses a Frame for Asian Diasporic Artists in Boston

Review by Swagato Chakravorty

Issue 14 • May 13, 2025

Julien Creuzet Brings the Sounds of the Atlantic to Brown's Bell Gallery

Review by Karla Méndez

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

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An artist holds up artwork made of coiled fabric.

Online • Jun 13, 2025

Nirmal Raja’s Interdisciplinary Practice Maps South Asian Memory Across Materials

In her debut solo show in Boston, “Grace and Grit,” the interdisciplinary artist explores the weight of migration, memory, and loss through deeply considered materials—and collective acts of feminist solidarity.

Interview by Swagato Chakravorty

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An artist holds up artwork made of coiled fabric.

Online • Jun 13, 2025

Nirmal Raja’s Interdisciplinary Practice Maps South Asian Memory Across Materials

Interview by Swagato Chakravorty

Online • Jun 10, 2025

Women on the Verge: Five Museums in Maine Showcase Nicole Wittenberg and Ann Craven

Feature by Jorge S. Arango

Online • Jun 06, 2025

“Circle of the Sun” Provides an Intimate Look at the Arctic

Review by Jessica Shearer

Summer Guides

Online • Jun 03, 2025

The Season for Slow Looking: Ten Museum Exhibitions To Catch Across New England This Summer

From historic retrospectives and surreal landscapes to experimental films and embroidered portals—the BAR team charts the must-see museum exhibitions both locally and across the region.

Feature by BAR Editorial

Issue 14 • May 31, 2025

The Bounty of the Berkshires' Summertime Art Attractions

As North Adams prepares to welcome the inaugural Arrival Art Fair this June 13–15, our local guide highlights the region’s singular blend of world-class museums, artist-run spaces, cuisine, and forested hikes that define summer in the Berkshires.

Feature by Lauren Levato Coyne