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Artists For Humanity alum Wendy ‘MoMa’ Michel comes full circle

The featured artist at AFH’s Open Studio event Tuesday, she is showing paintings and black-and-white prints that function as puzzle pieces in her exhibit "CROWN."

Picture by picture, a Canadian dentist built a photography collection by artists from the Black Atlantic

The works collected over the decades by Kenneth Montague will be on display at Salem's Peabody Essex Museum starting June 17. The collection is notable for its frank, dignified portrayals of everyday people throughout the Black diaspora, whether in Europe, the Americas, or Africa itself.

10 museum shows you’ll want to wander this summer

From Pueblo pottery, to plants, and giant parade balloons, creativity in many forms will be on display in the welcoming cool of museum galleries.

Zhang Xiao’s photos look at rural life during Lunar New Year celebrations in northern China

Zhang Xiao looks at rural life during Lunar New Year celebrations in northern China.

Andy Warhol violated a photographer’s copyright on image of Prince, Supreme Court rules
The case involved images Warhol created of Prince as part of a 1984 commission for Vanity Fair, using one of Lynn Goldsmith's photos as a starting point.

ART REVIEW
Photographer Jon Henry’s ‘Stranger Fruit’ is a portrait of collective grief
At Abakus Projects, Henry’s pictures of Black women holding their sons respond to murders of Black men by police.

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Dinorá Justice turns to ‘Mother/Nature’ to reimagine artists’ objectification of women

The Newton artist’s “Portraits” series will be displayed at Gallery NAGA through June 3.

Meet the Makers: Painter and public school art teacher Liana Farmer

“I’m in a constant state of exhaustion,” Farmer says. “The exhaustion, however, does not stop me from doing what I have to do, which is make art.”

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What do Indian public archives and Richard Avedon have in common?

Dayanita Singh’s images of the former and Avedon’s professional apprenticeship are reminders that, before they’re anything else, photographs are information.

ART REVIEW

Charles Yuen’s paintings are cosmic puzzles to be pondered

‘Rhyming the Invisible’ is at LaiSun Keane through May 28.

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW

At the MFA, a democratic medium for a democratic society

‘Painted Tintypes: Photography for the People’ looks at some unexpectedly colorful 19th-century pictures.

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW

Every breath she takes: Ming Smith at MoMA

Her photographs are their own genre: documentary dreamscape.

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW

In Portland, looking back at a continent on the cusp of change

"Outside the Frame: Todd Webb in Africa" revisits a photographic project from 1958.

ART REVIEW

‘Sound in Space, Sound in Place’ is an aural experience

The show at at the New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! transports the listener from sea to savannah and beyond.