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At MIT, Alicja Kwade keeps the cosmic order with algorithms and art

A cerebral artist makes sculpture with an unending continuum in mind

Art Basel bears far better fruit than that $120,000 banana

The beauty of Miami Art Week is that every type of artist gets a place on the wall. You just have to be willing to look.

At the ICA’s 2019 Foster Prize exhibition, an artist breaks out with ‘A Father’s Lullaby’

The biennial prize selected four Boston-area artists, with one clear standout.

At the Wadsworth Atheneum, art by African-Americans rejoices in the sacred

“Afrocosmologies: American Reflections" sits like a beating heart at the juncture of several major historical arteries: religion, art, and American history.

GALLERIES
Like a time capsule, 1970s photos revel in Miami Beach’s tight-knit community of Jewish retirees
At the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Andy Sweet’s exuberant images capture a glorious moment in time.

ART REVIEW
At the Worcester Art Museum, an unflinching look at maternity and childbirth
Otto Dix’s pregnant nudes are paired with photographs from the delivery room.

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Boston’s Illuminus Festival lights up the Financial District with socially minded art

Just in time for the holidays, high-tech installations tackle everything from gender to criminal justice.

VISUAL ARTS

At the Portland Art Museum, a hit show raises hard questions about N.C. Wyeth

The beloved illustrator enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist. Did it kill his dream of being taken seriously?

GALLERIES

At North Hill retirement community, an artist riffs on whimsical Mexican folk figures

Nan Hass Feldman's antic paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works were inspired by a visit to a museum in Oaxaca, Mexico.

ART REVIEW

In Portland, art star Ragnar Kjartansson sets capitalism ablaze with ‘Scenes From Western Culture’

These slickly produced videos have little in common with fan favorite ‘The Visitors.’

At the Davis Museum, Fatimah Tuggar uses tech to deprogram stereotypes

The artist deploys computers and collage techniques to challenge old thinking on work, class, and culture.

ART REVIEW

At the Peabody Essex, a bystander to art history steps into the limelight

Hans Hofmann doesn’t have the household name of his Abstract Expressionist peers. But what would they have been without him?

Currier Museum of Art now owns two Frank Lloyd Wright houses

Both homes are on the same street in Manchester, N.H.

At the deCordova, unearthing a connection with the ‘beautiful and frightening’ flow of water

Andy Goldsworthy has a major new piece at the deCordova called "Rivers and Tides"