Visual Arts
Harvard’s team of magicians have brought the Rothko murals back to life.
M.C. Escher’s extraordinary fantasy constructions are captivating visual environments whose frisky improbability beguile.
With the wild array of video, digital, performance, and public artists we have here, Illuminus is a natural event for Boston to host.
Goya: Order and Disorder is likely the most important exhibition on the New England museum calendar for the coming year and then some.
Fiber takes on two key aesthetic ideas — gravity and the grid — and one major sociological one, the way fiber arts were created and exhibited as part of a larger feminist agenda.
Despite producing atmospheres reminiscent of smoke, rust, and acid, a streak of joy runs through Lester Johnson’s paintings.
With Color Crossing, Kate Gilbert wanted to showcase “the collision between sights and sounds that make Downtown Crossing so vibrant.”

Visual Art Commentary: Silence Is Complicity — Why Museums Must Use Their Voice to Defend Democracy