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Collages Take On Race, Sexuality

Viewers of Tony Gray: The Panther Series can be forgiven for feeling like they’ve entered a time capsule transporting them back to the early 1970s. The latest show at the Sherman Gallery depicts...

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Animals Invade the MFA

Spend an afternoon seeing how artists have depicted birds and beasts over the last 500 years in the Paper Zoo exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts. From cats to elephants to...

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Let’s Talk about Bikes

Like it or not, they are everywhere these days. From their impact on lifestyle to public safety, bicycles are an ever-expanding part of the fabric of city life. In Boston alone, ridership has more than...

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The Fascinating World of Holograms

The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography, a fascinating new show currently on view at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, embraces the intersection of art and science. The exhibit, featuring more...

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Abstract Art for the 21st Century

Love it or hate it, everyone has an opinion about abstract art. Popularized in the United States by such painters as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, the form is often regarded as a...

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Exploring His Kodachrome Dreams

Growing up in Dayton, Ohio, in the 1950s, Stephen A. Frank dreamed of hitching rides on the Pennsylvania Railroad trains that thundered past his kitchen window, bound either for Philadelphia and New...

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Capturing and Conveying Sincerity

What is sincerity, and what role does it play in contemporary art? A new exhibition at the 808 Gallery titled On Sincerity attempts to address these knotty questions in the work of more than 20 artists...

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Creating Art from Reclaimed Materials

Using reclaimed building materials, a new show at BU asks provocative questions about our notions of stability and the human body’s movement through space. Taking its cue from the Boston University Art...

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Alternative Visions/Sustainable Futures

How do we go about creating a sustainable future? That question is at the center of a new project titled Alternative Visions/Sustainable Futures, a collaboration between the College of Fine Arts School...

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Exploring a Simultaneous Viewing Experience

An engaging new show on view at the Sherman Gallery explores how different artists capture and convey a simultaneous experience. Titled Simultaneity, it is curated by Gabriel Phipps (CFA’00) and...

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Tagging, Pre-Facebook

Some people see graffiti as defacement of public property; others consider it an important form of artistic expression. If you’re among the latter group, then the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)...

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Reviving an Ancient Script

Moroccan artist Hamid Kachmar can’t recall a time when he wasn’t drawing and painting. Born into a family of indigenous Berber ancestry, Kachmar uses the symbols and colors of his African heritage to...

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The Best in Printmaking at 808 Gallery

When people think of printmaking, they often conjure images of Rembrandt’s self-portrait etchings from the early 17th century or German artist Albrecht Dürer’s famous engravings depicting Saint...

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Celebrating a Peripatetic Painter at the BU Art Gallery

Mention the name Herbert Gentry and chances are you’ll draw a blank. The African American abstract painter (1919–2003) never achieved the same degree of fame that friends and contemporaries like Romare...

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Capturing the World in Color

There was a time color photography was considered inferior to black-and-white, consigned to the pages of National Geographic, but largely absent elsewhere. But color photography long ago became the...

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Mr. Spock, the Photographer

Leonard Nimoy is best known to television audiences for his iconic performance as Mr. Spock, the half Vulcan–half human star of the original 1960s Star Trek series—a role that earned him three Emmy...

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808 Gallery Hosts Alumni Show

As you tour the new exhibit at BU’s 808 Gallery, it quickly becomes apparent why it’s been titled Convergence. This big, ambitious show brings together the work of alumni from all over the world whose...

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Six Women Who Broke New Ground

The turn of the 19th century was a time of change in Boston. There was the rise of industrialization and immigration, the women’s suffrage movement, Progressivism, and improved public transit. Boston’s...

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DIGNITY: Tribes in Transition

Dana Gluckstein was launching a successful career as a commercial photographer when a spur-of-the-moment decision changed her life. After shooting an annual report for a corporate client in 1983 in...

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An Eye-Popping Show at the Sherman Gallery

For anyone tired of this winter’s monochromatic landscape (snow-filled skies above and slushy gray sidewalks below), a new show at the Sherman Gallery offers a handy antidote. Titled The Beatles Are...

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