From summer pop-ups to gallery mainstays, these are the twelve exhibitions our editors are most excited to catch from the Vineyard to the Berkshires and everything in between.
鈥淚 am the nightmare in Trump鈥檚 America.鈥 That鈥檚 how painter Papay Solomon, an African immigrant, describes himself in his artist鈥檚 statement for 鈥淣ightmares Americana.鈥
鈥極VR: Miami Beach鈥, Art Basel's upcoming Online Viewing Rooms, will feature 255 galleries originally slated to participate in the American fair. It will begin with a VIP Preview running December 2-4, 2020 followed by public days through December 6, 2020.
Galleries are the first cultural venues to reopen. In the Boston area, several are welcoming visitors this week 鈥 equipped with disinfectant, hand sanitizer, and face masks.
Populate the teeming moral fables of Hieronymus Bosch with the pugnacious figures of R. Crumb, sprinkle in feminism, and you may have the paintings of Anastasiya Tarasenko.
Flying across the country from San Francisco to Boston, just as this past winter's infamous "polar vortex" was set to grip the midwest and northeast for a few days, I made a list of all the popular culture stereotypes I knew of the city.