The Museum of African American History and Harvard’s Cooper Gallery showcase jazz photography.

Light and shadow move through this gorgeous installation at Krakow Witkin Gallery.

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Women of color find oppression and grief where male artists traditionally found mystery and desire.

From Edward Gorey to Norman Rockwell, individual artists are soloists and stars at these small museums.

Lisa Tung envisioned a museum on the grounds of MassArt, a place to train a new generation of museum professionals.

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“In the Company of Artists” celebrates the museum’s residency program with an exhibition of highlights.

It took a lifetime to convince Avital Sagalyn to share her work.

A packed season brings reappraisals of all-American favorites and solo shows for tomorrow’s art stars.

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“Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin” observes the great critic’s bicentenary.

Museums have watched their relevance wane for decades as the world shifted around them. With various culture wars raging, the MFA’s 150th anniversary brings the chance to reengage.

Báez will create an architectural sculpture that imagines ancient ruins below the venue.

The Louvre opened a new sprawling art conservation center Tuesday some 120 miles from Paris to protect the museum’s priceless artworks from its flood-prone storage reserves.

Gallagher’s paintings are case studies in color, texture, and experimentation.

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The quintessential American artist cut his teeth as a Civil War illustrator, but did he ever really move on?

Gordon Matta-Clark left an outsize legacy by dismantling buildings around the world.

Some giant news in the contemporary art world: Acclaimed street artist Shepard Fairey, who got his start at the Rhode Island School of Design, returns to Providence this month where he’ll paint his 100th mural.

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The museum is responding with a daily release of first-come, first-serve tickets.

The Boston Athenaeum solicited libraries of essential reading for the 21st-century.

The traveling show inspires a viewer to rethink history and ecology.

A local blogger is just one enthusiast documenting the faded advertisements that dot buildings around the city.

At the start of his career over 30 years ago, Jim Kociuba was the only art teacher in New Hampshire’s Hopkinton school district. Now retired, he’s focusing on his own art.

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Brian Kennedy takes charge with a vision for difficult conversations, and above all, progress.

HubWeek brings its annual idea fest to the Seaport, country artist Hunter Hayes plays City Hall plaza, “Disney’s The Lion King” opens in Boston, and more.

This week’s picks from Globe critics.

The Japanese artist’s selfie-friendly “Love Is Calling” is underpinned by personal, emotional depth.

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The museum, like any, has decades of ingrained gender bias. On the eve of the MFA’s 150th anniversary, ‘Women Take the Floor” is its kitchen-sink stab at redress.

The exhibition “Only at the Coolidge” l00ks at a beloved local cinematic institution.

Ceramicist Colby Charpentier built vessels from a material normally reserved for the final coat.

‘Experimentation should be innate to an artist’

See the off-Broadway hit “Black Light,” check out the inaugural Latinx Heritage Night, catch a sugar buzz at What the Fluff?, and more.

“It caught our attention and we were definitely intrigued,” said Laurie Norton Moffatt, director and chief executive of the museum.

A new exhibition examines ideas of displacement and belonging apart from our current moment.

“Us and Them,” from the Mexican-American artist Erre, points out that divisive rhetoric is as old as America itself.