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The rooms where it happened: A new MFA show looks at photographers’ studios

“Creative Spaces: The Photographer’s Studio as Inspiration” runs at the Museum of Fine Arts through April 28.

’80s hip-hop culture, courtesy of Ice-T and DJ Afrika Islam, is on vivid display at Harvard
“Day One DNA: 50 Years in Hiphop Culture” at the Cooper Gallery includes sneakers, records, jewelry, clothes, even a replica studio apartment from hip-hop’s early days

At the National Gallery, a clear sign of contemporary Indigenous art on the rise
The landmark show ‘The Land Carries Our Ancestors,’ curated by Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, embodies the hope that museums are finally making space for Native American artists.

In ‘Fluid/Solid,’ Rosanne Somerson goes with the flow — of wood

The woodworker and former RISD president exhibits a stunning show at Gallery NAGA on Newbury Street.

In a stunningly honest exhibition, Harvard Art Museums put their links to China’s opium trade on display
Centuries before the US opioid crisis, foreign forces — the museums’ benefactors among them — drove China’s opium addiction.

ART REVIEW
Safety, surveillance, and being seen — Joanna Tam examines it all in ‘Visibility Studies’
The artist’s new show, ‘Visibility Studies,’ is on view at Regis College’s Carney Gallery in Weston.

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW
Some clean, well-lighted places at the Griffin
Artist’s studios and photographer’s darkrooms make for enticing visual subjects.

Art Review
At the Museum of Fine Arts, an abstract artist’s ‘painting in the round’
Working principally in ceramics, Toshiko Takaezu didn’t achieve the acclaim of her male abstract expressionist peers. A new show of her work makes a case for her place in the canon.

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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK

Mark Chester, "Route 84 Junction, Hartford, CT," from "Roadshow Anthropology," 2023

Have camera, will travel

The photographic road trip has a long and happy high-mileage tradition. 6:00 a.m.

ART REVIEW

Eva Papamargariti, "Soft Touch," 2015/2022, HD video.

A fertile ground for artists in Fall River

‘HYPERBALLADS’ is the first show in GATHER’s Ignition Space featuring artists from the Portuguese diaspora. 1:48 p.m.

University of Massachusetts Amherst students Micah Schmerling and Jade Shum inspect an artwork at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

In Collecting 101, UMass Amherst students learn inner workings of museum acquisition

The class recently took a field trip to Boston to visit Newbury Street art galleries and the ICA’s permanent collection. 6:00 a.m.

Tea leaves in glass bottle, collected on the shore of Dorchester Neck the morning of Dec. 17, 1773.

The Boston Tea Party turns 250

An exhibition at the Massachusetts Historical Society looks back at one of the most celebrated protests in American history. 8:00 a.m.

Crystalle Lacouture, "Blue Mask," oil on canvas, from "Evening’s Evening" at Praise Shadows Art Gallery.

Crystalle Lacouture centers loss and care at Praise Shadows Art Gallery

The artist’s show "Evenings’s Evening" offers sacred geometry that feels like a salve. 12:28 p.m.

Art Review

Cicely Carew's work installed for the 2023 Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.

At the ICA, a vital view into the Boston art scene

Cicely Carew, Venetia Dale, and Yu-Wen Wu are the 2023 winners of the ICA's Foster Prize. 5:22 p.m.

MUSEUMS

Institute of Contemporary Art Boston director Jill Medvedow in front of United States' pavilion at the 59th Biennale of Arts exhibition in Venice in April 2022.

Institute of Contemporary Art director Jill Medvedow to retire

The museum’s longtime leader will step down at the end of 2024. 9:30 a.m.

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW

The joys of juxtaposition

That informs much of the work and how it’s displayed in the Photographic Resource Center’s "For a Moment: Images from the Boston Photo League." 4:57 p.m.