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Artist Wendy Red Star corrects the record on her Crow forebears

Her Mass MoCA show features annotated portraits of an 1880 delegation to Washington, D.C.

In a landslide vote, MFA workers opt to unionize

Representatives for the museum challenged some ballots, arguing that certain positions aren’t eligible for union membership.

At the ICA, William Kentridge explodes the popular narrative on World War I

The artist has adapted and distilled his 2018 stage production on the war's devastating impact in Africa.

More than name change may be needed at former Plimoth Plantation

The name Plimoth Patuxet reflects a long commitment to Wampanoag history, but the exhibits themselves are still due for a refresh.

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The jolt, and the joy, of hearing live music from Boston Lyric Opera’s Street Stage
After all these months, the company's mobile opera truck offers a safe, socially distanced treat for music-starved listeners.

ART
At Steven Zevitas Gallery, formal portraits rebuke refugee stereotypes
Papay Solomon's "Nightmares Americana” features realist paintings of African refugees in the Phoenix area.

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MFA’s Monet show is the escape everyone needs right now

Less pleasant will be landing tickets for this 150th anniversary show, which has been reimagined for the COVID era.

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At Gallery Kayafas, a photographer follows poetry all the way home

Bruce Myren captured the lives and landscapes of Amherst poet Robert Francis.

7 small shows at the Griffin Museum of Photography look at one very big topic: war and its aftermath

Grouped under the heading “Tours of Duty,” the shows feature everything from portraits to conceptual works.

The MFA brings back ‘Elsa Dorfman: Me and My Camera’

The exhibition returns five months after the death of the Cambridge icon.

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After backlash, MFA director vows to ‘get this right’ with Philip Guston show

An announcement came Thursday that the show will open in Boston in 2022.

Helen Meyrowitz launched a first-rate gallery at her Needham retirement community. At 92, she’s retiring with a solo show

“There is nothing like it in any other continuous care retirement community I know of,” said the community's CEO.

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At Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, paintings for a bright, beautiful season under threat

Wilhelm Neusser's "The Sixth Season" takes its title in part from our own lost spring.

Where museumgoers can break with the utopian dream

"Visionary New England" at the newly reopened deCordova museum reviews the region's idealistic tendencies.