
In wake of famed artist Robert Indiana’s death, a tangle of allegations
The artist’s estate is snared in allegations involving fraud, forgery, theft, and elder abuse.
Todd Gieg has mostly eschewed his day job to construct a hyper-realistic replica of a long-forgotten narrow-gauge passenger train and the seaside towns it rolled through. The results are breathtaking.
The artist’s estate is snared in allegations involving fraud, forgery, theft, and elder abuse.
It was first completed a few months ago. But after the artist, Insane51, posted a video of his work this week on Instagram, the mural gained renewed attention.
The independent library has signed a long-term lease for additional space of nearly 20,000 square feet in a neighboring building on Beacon Street.
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The grim 2016 election season and its aftermath is both backdrop and foreground to James Sturm’s powerful new graphic novel “Off Season.”
Art Review
The museum asks some hard questions in its historic display of a revered old master.
Things to do
The Globe’s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.
Art Review
Artist Liz Magor assigns tender care to abandoned things, calling attention to our consumption-mad world.
Upcoming concerts, shows, performances in theater, music, dance, art, and television.
Galleries
Head forms predominate in “Not for Nothing,” Josh Jefferson’s new show at Steven Zevitas Gallery.
This tiny seaside village at the end of a twisting mountain drive is among the most improbable love nests of the mid-20th century.
Music Review
Friday’s concert in Cambridge offered works from across the centuries.
Art Review
The Bauhaus school proposed radical egalitarianism through design. For its centenary, a new show at Harvard suggests it had a ways to go.
Globe Magazine
Your seasonal calendar of events, music, theater, and more.
Elizabeth Barker announced in a letter to members that she plans to step down in March.
The former MTV reporter has an exhibit featuring her work at Wellesley College called “Surface Tension” that opened this week.
new england literary news | nina maclaughlin
Ekua Holmes came late to illustrating children’s books, but her first three have won awards.
Oliver Barker will serve as the new Director of the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, the museum’s board of directors announced Thursday.
Things to Do
The Globe’s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.
Their show is up at Simmons University’s Trustman Gallery through March 18.
Art Review
“Nature’s Nation,” hatched with an environmental agenda, wades into political waters.
photography REview
Photography shows from Peter Vanderwarker, Neal Rantoul, and Leonardo March are reviewed.
Galleries
Works by Karin Rosenthal and Anne Lilly are on display at Brandeis University’s Kniznick Gallery.
Your Week Ahead
Take in a sci-fi film festival, celebrate Black History Month, head to a Rockport Music community concert, and more.
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The artist spoke to the Globe about working from the female gaze, depicting vulnerability, and how she left — and then returned — to painting.
Art Review
“Mountains and the Rise of Landscape” is a bracingly varied exhibition at the Graduate School of Design.
The Dartmouth College museum reopened after a $50 million renovation and expansion with fresh purpose and a striking sense of openness and inclusion.
Art review
“Radiance Rediscovered: Stained Glass by Tiffany and La Farge,” a gently glowing show at Worcester Art Museum, showcases the wonders of John La Farge.
Galleries
The California artist lends material heft to the expanding virtual world, artificial intelligence, and philosophy, nodding to models of how consciousness and society work.
Art Review
Rafa Esparza, a child of Mexican immigrants, builds an installation brick by brick.
Book Review
In her debut novel, Whitney Scharer reimagines the life of photographer Lee Miller and her relationship with Man Ray
A French judicial official says police are investigating the theft of an artwork by the British artist that was painted as a tribute to the victims of the 2015 terror attacks at the Paris music hall.
Upcoming concerts, shows, performances in theater, music, dance, art, and television.
Your Week Ahead
A multimedia exhibit at Brandeis’s Rose Art Museum, “A One-Woman Show About Eartha Kitt,” a Lunar New Year Celebration, and more.
Things to Do
The Globe’s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.
Art
Murray Whyte’s picks of upcoming notable shows.
Multiple exhibitions examine collective anxieties over climate change.
Photography review
Three new shows use photography in very different ways.
A “full body scan” carried out on the Van Gogh Museum’s version of the Dutch master’s iconic “Sunflowers” has shown the painting is not fit to travel because it’s in “stable but vulnerable” condition, the museum’s director said Thursday.
This week’s picks from Globe critics.
Galleries | Cate McQuaid
Kim Faler zooms in on ordinary minutiae like grocery lists and to-do lists. Blowing up snippets of handwritten text she has gathered, Faler re-creates them on rusted steel panels.
The artist spoke to the Globe about art therapy, murals, and sharing her work.
This week’s picks from Globe critics.
Art Review
The art exhibit “Before the Deluge: Apocalyptic Floodscapes from John Martin to John Goto, 1789 to Now” reminds us that floods have frightened and obsessed people for centuries.
Photography Review
An extraordinary show features nearly 140 works by the Mexican photographer.
Art Review
A new exhibition dives into an under-explored trove of the museum’s collection, with what appears to be a mea culpa: We’ve done too little, for too long. That changes now.
Oliver’s rapturous odes to nature and animal life brought her critical acclaim and popular affection.
Galleries | Cate McQuaid
Los Angeles artist Nancy Baker Cahill, who grew up in Boston, invites viewers to step inside her works using virtual reality, and take them out in the world using augmented reality.
The Japanese artist has rocketed to superstardom with dazzling, mirror-lined installations brimming with otherworldly color and light — must-haves for many people’s social-media checklists. But that leaves out a darker story.
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The Chicago rapper is making a name for herself.
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Ahead of the opening of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, the Globe Magazine explores the history of the project and Kennedy’s vision for it.
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An in-depth look at the new complex designed by architect Renzo Piano.