A fortuitous elevator encounter between two men at a posh Boston hotel in 1916 resulted in a relationship that was instrumental to the creation of some of the most celebrated artworks of early…
Nina Simone singing "Wild Is the Wind," punctuated by the clicking of slide projectors, provided a moody, retro soundtrack for "Under a Dismal Boston Skyline," an ambitious exhibition of experimental…
A curator curating artists who curate other artists. It doesn’t get any more meta than that. The artworks collected in “The Artist’s Museum,” a nesting box of an exhibition organized by Dan Byers, are…
The archive has been the inspiration and the raw material for many artists and curators, but few approach it with the dedication and whimsy of the Vancouver-based artist Geoffrey Farmer. Farmer, who w…
The broad title of the MFA’s spring headliner belies the exhibition’s narrow focus. Far from a sweeping survey of art from and about Asia’s vast urban agglomerations, the show features work by just un…
The deeply researched exhibition “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957”at the Institute of Contemporary Art, co-organized by Helen Molesworth and Ruth Erickson, gives a measure…