Lauren Kaufmann

Visual Arts Review: Rembrandt’s Jewish Amsterdam

May 19, 2026
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An MFA exhibition traces how Amsterdam’s Jewish community shaped the artist’s imagination, revealing a rich interplay of daily life, biblical narrative, and cultural exchange.

Visual Arts Review: Witness and Wonder — Winslow Martin’s Armenia in Fragments of Daily Life

May 6, 2026
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At Project Save, thirty black-and-white photographs capture the tenderness, turmoil, and enduring spirit of the Armenian experience.

Visual Arts Review: Derrick Adams Turns Black Joy Into an Expansive World

April 19, 2026
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Jubilant collages, TV motifs, and immersive rooms celebrate 25 years of Black artist Derrick Adams’s inventive practice.

Visual Art Review: “Imagined Nation” and the Unfinished Work of American Democracy

April 1, 2026
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In light of our current government, the show provides inspiration from the past, and it serves as an invaluable reminder that democracy has never been static, but ever evolving.

Visual Arts Review: “Persona” — The Gardner Museum’s Captivating Probe into Photographic Self-Reinvention

March 21, 2026
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Overall, the exhibit offers a fascinating look at  photography’s potential to pose challenging questions about who we are, how we are perceived, and how we can alter our self-image to interrogate our own sense of identit

Visual Art Review: The Sacred Act of Making — Boston Artists Explore Ritual and Space

February 15, 2026
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In this exhibit, curator Robin Hauck celebrates ten Boston-area artists who resist the relentless distractions that contemporary life imposes on all of us.

Visual Arts Show: Friendship and Inclusion — “To My Best Friend” at the ICA/Boston

February 8, 2026
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This exhibit is a fair reflection of the museum’s desire to spotlight work by artists who have traditionally been neglected by the museum world.

Visual Arts Review: Threads of Tradition — The Quiet Brilliance of “One Hundred Stitches, One Hundred Villages”

January 5, 2026
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Although the work seems timeless, its modernity reflects a culture that reveres its age-old traditions and preserves them over many generations.

Visual Arts Review: “Revolution! 250 Years of Art + Activism in Boston” — The Trials and Tribulations of Democracy

December 17, 2025
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It’s as if the curators of this BPL exhibit are warning us that the future of our democracy depends on our paying attention.

Visual Arts Review: The Spirit and the Street — Allan Rohan Crite’s Portrait of Community

November 16, 2025
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As an artist, Allan Crite was always observing, drawing, and thinking about his Boston—the buildings, streets, parks, and playgrounds of Lower Roxbury and the South End.

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