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In a large room, everyday objects—such as rubber gloves, eyeshadow palettes, notebooks, bells, and water bottles—dangle from strings suspended from the ceiling. In the background, a video piece is projected onto a screen, with chairs scattered in front of it.

Online • Dec 03, 2025

Caring for the Vessel: Every Ocean Hughes's Afterlife as Practice

Review by Cleo Harrington

Issue 14 • Dec 03, 2025

Shades of Belonging in MASS MoCA’s “Dirty & Disorderly”

Review by Rachel TonThat

Issue 15 • Dec 03, 2025

In “Reflections,” Fred Wilson Reveals How Institutions and Images Shape What We Understand about Blackness

Review by Alisa Prince

Aerial view of an outdoor holiday market.

Online • Dec 01, 2025

Winter 2025 Holiday Markets for Shopping Local in the Greater Boston Area

Feature by BAR Editorial

Isolated gift items, including clothing, home wares, and art-making tools, on a patterned background.

Online • Dec 01, 2025

2025 Holiday Gift Guide

Feature by BAR Editorial

Online • Nov 26, 2025

A Century of Afromodernism is on view at Harvard's Newly Renamed Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art

Review by Melaine Ferdinand-King

An artist wearing jeans and a sweatshirt sits in a hand drawn talk show set.

Online • Nov 26, 2025

Sunny Allis is Bringing Punk Joy to the End of Capitalism

Profile by Michael Medeiros

UN-MONUMENT • Nov 25, 2025

The Act of Seeing: Indigenous Portrait Series Unveiled at Quincy Market

Feature by Marianna McMurdock

Online • Nov 24, 2025

Painting the Town: CMCA's 2025 Biennial

Review by Jorge S. Arango

Long bolts of blue and red patterned fabric create a hung structure across a gallery space.

Online • Nov 20, 2025

Material Witness: Swapnaa Tamhane’s Textiles of Labor and Lineage

Review by Joetta Maue

A woman with a microphone headset gestures toward the trees in a public garden.

UN-MONUMENT • Nov 19, 2025

Kate Farrington’s Monument to the Trees of the Public Garden

Feature by Oisin Rowe

UN-MONUMENT • Nov 19, 2025

Writing As Monument: Creating Paper Artifacts

Feature by Jameson Johnson

UN-MONUMENT • Nov 19, 2025

Fifty Years After Boston’s Busing Crisis, Activists from Chinatown are Sharing their Stories

Feature by Lian Parsons-Thomason

UN-MONUMENT • Nov 19, 2025

On the Prospect of Un-

Feature by TK Smith

UN-MONUMENT • Nov 19, 2025

When Graffiti Leaves the Streets

Feature by Alula Hunsen

Five photographs hang on a blue wall with text that reads "Visual Kinship."

Issue 15 • Nov 18, 2025

At the Hood Museum of Art, “Visual Kinship” Examines Family Through Photography

Review by Karolina Hać

Online • Nov 18, 2025

Anthony Barboza’s Hometown Retrospective Celebrates a Lifelong Commitment to Photographing Black Life

Quick Bit by Alisa Prince

Online • Nov 18, 2025

Camp and Collaboration: In Conversation with VHF Studio

Interview by Zaryah Qareeb

Online • Nov 15, 2025

Andrea Dezsö and Adam Gurvitch: Ink, Imagination, and the Space Between

Review by Lauren Levato Coyne

Civic Culture • Nov 13, 2025

Boston Art Review Names Arts Policy & Civic Engagement Editor

News by BAR Editorial

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

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Isolated gift items, including clothing, home wares, and art-making tools, on a patterned background.

Online • Dec 01, 2025

2025 Holiday Gift Guide

A festive round-up of thoughtful objects and creative experiences from Greater Boston’s art and maker community.

Feature by BAR Editorial

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Issue 14 • Dec 03, 2025

Shades of Belonging in MASS MoCA’s “Dirty & Disorderly”

Review by Rachel TonThat

Issue 15 • Dec 03, 2025

In “Reflections,” Fred Wilson Reveals How Institutions and Images Shape What We Understand about Blackness

Review by Alisa Prince

Online • Nov 26, 2025

A Century of Afromodernism is on view at Harvard's Newly Renamed Alain Locke Gallery of African & African American Art

Review by Melaine Ferdinand-King

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UN-MONUMENT • Nov 19, 2025

Writing As Monument: Creating Paper Artifacts

How a mysterious duo of books from Boston's 1976 bicentennial reminded me that what survives is not always the official record, but the fragile artifact that carries memory forward.

Feature by Jameson Johnson

Civic Culture • Nov 13, 2025

Boston Art Review Names Arts Policy & Civic Engagement Editor

Kim Córdova to lead new vertical exploring the intersection of art, policy, and civic life with two-year support from the Barr Foundation.

News by BAR Editorial