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Sarah Ganz Blythe to lead Harvard Art Museums

Ganz Blythe, who currently serves as deputy director of exhibitions, education, and programs at the RISD Museum, will take over as director of the Harvard museums Aug. 12.

Fruitlands Museum to reopen its galleries with three exhibitions focused on Native American Art
‘This is an opportunity to teach and to learn and to grow,’ says Tess Lukey, associate curator of Native American Art at the Trustees of Reservations.

A ‘Meadow’ in the Fenway and a ‘Glacier’ in Kenmore Square
Photos shows from Barbara Bosworth and Alex Joseph Hansen offer contrasting views of the natural world.

Photographer turns subjects into life-sized ‘American Girl’ dolls, with an Indigenous twist

Given historic power dynamics in the representation of Native people, collaboration is essential.

Dig up your dirt — for a new sculpture coming to the Greenway
Titled "Going to Ground," the sculpture by LaRissa Rogers will forefront soil as a material that holds "histories of liberation, of trauma, of everything. . . . It’s kind of this living archive."

Critic's Notebook
At last at the MFA, an answer to the ‘Appeal to the Great Spirit’ problem
The museum's solution starts with Mohawk artist Alan Michelson, a Boston native.

‘It’s torn our community apart’: Rift deepens over Portland Museum of Art expansion plan
Is the multimillion-dollar “landmark for the future” at odds with protecting Portland’s historic downtown? That’s the question at the heart of a contentious debate in Maine’s largest city.

Berkshire Museum plans major renovation
The project, which follows a controversial sale of artwork, will expand the museum’s aquarium and reimagine its galleries.

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‘Indigo is my calling card,’ says Roxbury artist Ifé Franklin

This month, her public art installation ‘The Resurrection of Mark, Phillis, & Phebe’ opens in Charlestown Navy Yard.

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW

At Harvard’s Peabody Museum, the photograph as reliquary

Wendel A. White’s "Manifest" shows the past emerging into a shared present.

How do you sit still and get paid at the same time? Try becoming a nude, figure-drawing model.

"If we all saw each other naked in more casual settings, it wouldn’t be such a big deal anyway," says one retiree, who’s been drawing at the Boston Figurative Art Center for a decade.

WORKING ARTIST

The many selves of Gearóid Dolan, MIT instructor, activist, and costumed artist

Dolan calls their varied identities "projections into the world" and explores them in an ongoing online project.

Art Review

At ICA’s Watershed, Hew Locke’s rough pageant of humanity

“The Procession,” a march through the ugliness of colonial history, fastens past ills to a fractious present.

The West End Museum reopens after two-year closure because of flooding

The museum, which celebrates and honors the history of the West End, returns with a newly renovated space and a new exhibition.

WORKING ARTIST

In the hot shop with RISD glass artist Will Beattie

He uses glass to channel data, light, and sound.

What’s red, red, and red all over? We spoke with Jonathan Yeo about the reaction to his official portrait of King Charles III.

Say what you will about the artist's rather striking, larger-than-life oil painting of the monarch. But it’s got people talking.