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.

Friday’s concert in Cambridge offered works from across the centuries.

The Bauhaus school proposed radical egalitarianism through design. For its centenary, a new show at Harvard suggests it had a ways to go.

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.

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.

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.

“Nature’s Nation,” hatched with an environmental agenda, wades into political waters.

Photography shows from Peter Vanderwarker, Neal Rantoul, and Leonardo March are reviewed.

Works by Karin Rosenthal and Anne Lilly are on display at Brandeis University’s Kniznick Gallery.

Take in a sci-fi film festival, celebrate Black History Month, head to a Rockport Music community concert, and more.

The artist spoke to the Globe about working from the female gaze, depicting vulnerability, and how she left — and then returned — to painting.

“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.

“Radiance Rediscovered: Stained Glass by Tiffany and La Farge,” a gently glowing show at Worcester Art Museum, showcases the wonders of John La Farge.

The California artist lends material heft to the expanding virtual world, artificial intelligence, and philosophy, nodding to models of how consciousness and society work.

Rafa Esparza, a child of Mexican immigrants, builds an installation brick by brick.

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.

A multimedia exhibit at Brandeis’s Rose Art Museum, “A One-Woman Show About Eartha Kitt,” a Lunar New Year Celebration, and more.

The Globe’s picks for the best ways to spend your weekend.

Murray Whyte’s picks of upcoming notable shows.

Multiple exhibitions examine collective anxieties over climate change.

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.

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.

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.

An extraordinary show features nearly 140 works by the Mexican photographer.

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.

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.

The Chicago rapper is making a name for herself.