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A sculpture made up of colorful cardboard bricks rests on a pedestal against a wall; small brick-based sculptures are presented on a pedestal at the center of the white-walled room.

Online • Oct 27, 2026

Contemporary Artists Build on the Ubiquitous Brick in “A Common Bond”

Review by Meg Rotzel

A blue metal sculpture with hanging silks is situated between rocks in a forest.

Online • Oct 27, 2026

At Three Trustees Properties, Art Challenges What It Means to Preserve the Land

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Online • Oct 23, 2026

Objects of Strange Devotion: Eve Biddle’s “Wonderlands” 

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Online • Oct 20, 2026

Open Valley Spotlights Industrious Artists and Makers in Post-Industrial Providence

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Civic Culture • Oct 19, 2026

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A blue metal sculpture with hanging silks is situated between rocks in a forest.

Online • Oct 27, 2026

At Three Trustees Properties, Art Challenges What It Means to Preserve the Land

Aquinnah Wampanoag curator Tess Lukey brings together three artists to reframe conservation properties with works shaped by Indigenous histories, ecological change, and ongoing relationships to land.

Feature by Mary Amanda McNeil

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A sculpture made up of colorful cardboard bricks rests on a pedestal against a wall; small brick-based sculptures are presented on a pedestal at the center of the white-walled room.

Online • Oct 27, 2026

Contemporary Artists Build on the Ubiquitous Brick in “A Common Bond”

Review by Meg Rotzel

Exterior view of a brick building with a blue sign that reads "Open Valley."

Online • Oct 20, 2026

Open Valley Spotlights Industrious Artists and Makers in Post-Industrial Providence

Feature by Jacqueline Houton

Jewel-toned screenprints are hung on a pale blue gallery wall.

Online • Oct 23, 2026

Objects of Strange Devotion: Eve Biddle’s “Wonderlands” 

Review by Annette LePique

Civic Culture Desk

Detail view of a state mail-in ballot for Massachusetts's November 3 Election Day.

Civic Culture • Oct 19, 2026

Three Ballot Questions that Could Affect the Arts This November

Massachusetts voters face nine ballot questions this November. Questions 3, 4, and 5 could change how the state elects its leaders, who can participate in elections, and how public revenue is managed. MASSCreative brought together advocates to discuss what’s at stake. Here’s what we learned.

News by Kim Córdova

Civic Culture • Oct 01, 2026

ArtWonk: What Does It Take to Make Precarity a Collective Cause in the Arts?

At Company One Theatre’s Boston cultural policy event, artists, funders, and policymakers considered living wages and the beginnings of a collective agenda for the arts. Similar concerns surfaced in local talks by artist Josh Kline and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who each took aim at the growing concentration of wealth and the threats to democracy that arise from the prohibitive cost of participating in society.

News by Kim Córdova

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