ARTISTS
2025
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston announced Lorna Simpson (b. 1960, New York) as the 2026 recipient of the Meraki Artist Award.
With her fantastical creatures and humanoid figures, the Zimbabwean painter makes ominousness appear sensual, even seductive.
Now online from Issue 14: Half Full (originally published May 2025), Sarah Ganz Blythe, Nora Burnett Abrams, and Angela Tate discuss their first year on the job at Boston-area museums.
Whether portraying families at play, people walking along urban streets, or portraits of individuals, Derrick Adams celebrates Black identity and experience.
In conversation with Observer, the artist reflected on her creative process, the personal symbology that defines her visual language and how her practice relates to the legacy of Surrealism.
Fourteen exhibitions across New England that challenge, unsettle, and invite new ways of seeing.
Make way for new museums far and wide this fall. The Museum of West African Art will fully open in Benin City, Nigeria.
This October, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) opens An Indigenous Present, a thematic exhibition spanning 100 years of contemporary Indigenous art.
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) presents Hidden Battles / Hondo dzakavanzika, Portia Zvavahera’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States.
From October 2025, Lucy Raven to transform The Curve with a major new exhibition titled Rounds.
Every month, Berlin Art Link shines a spotlight on international exhibitions and events with our list of Top Worldwide Exhibitions.
This May, photography shows across the world revisit historic moments in art and bring both emerging names and overlooked figures to light.
The ICA/Boston is the last stop for this major touring survey, which traces the development of Whitney’s unique and powerful abstractions over his 50-year career.
The new Meraki Artist Prize is funded by Fotene Demoulas, whose family owns the Market Basket supermarket chain.
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston has announced Sarah Sze as the first recipient of its newly established Meraki Artist Award.