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Issue 14: Half Full is here! It features 119 pages of conversations, features, and reviews as well as a special insert previewing the Boston Public Art Triennial. Subscribe or purchase your copy today!

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Online • Sep 02, 2025

Art at an Incline for Two Weekends Only Atop Mt. Holyoke’s Summit

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Online • Aug 25, 2025

Program Recap: Navigating Queer Leadership and Resilience at Twenty Summers

On August 9, Michael J. Bobbitt (Mass Cultural Council), Giselle Byrd (The Theater Offensive), Jameson Johnson (Boston Art Review), and Quil Lemons (curator of "American Faggot Party" at Stanley) discussed how shifting policies and cultural attacks impact their work and communities at a panel discussion moderated by Gavin Kennedy (Emergent Art Advisory).

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Dispatches From Maine

A gallery space features fiery imagery, a neon sign, and a ceramic sculpture.

Online • Aug 19, 2025

Inferno or Not, There’s Something for Everyone at Karma’s Summer Outpost in Maine

Quick Bit by Jorge S. Arango

Online • Aug 12, 2025

A New Collaboration Between NADA and Surf Point Attempts to Bring the Art World Center to the Edge of the Atlantic

News by Hilary Irons

Sculptures lie on a narrow, white table; paintings line the walls of a gallery.

Online • Aug 05, 2025

Spotlight on Maine: Dunes Launches Summer Lineup of Experimental Events in Portland

News by Hilary Irons

Recent Interviews

Online • Aug 26, 2025

Affsoongar on Anonymity, Enchantment, and Survival

Speaking from Tehran under an alias, the self-taught artist reflects on her exhibition at Pulp in Holyoke, the alter ego she inhabits, and the parallel worlds where her figures resist patriarchy, religion, and war.

Interview by Sophie Howe

Online • Aug 26, 2025

Painting Geographies in the New Sublime: A Conversation with Wilhelm Neusser

Artist Wilhelm Neusser draws on historical landscape painting traditions, but transcends them to explore deeper psychologies of place.

Interview by Jorge S. Arango

Online • Aug 25, 2025

Program Recap: Navigating Queer Leadership and Resilience at Twenty Summers

Announcement by BAR Editorial

Online • Aug 26, 2025

Affsoongar on Anonymity, Enchantment, and Survival

Interview by Sophie Howe

Online • Aug 26, 2025

Painting Geographies in the New Sublime: A Conversation with Wilhelm Neusser

Interview by Jorge S. Arango

Online • Aug 29, 2025

Porous Figures, Living Histories: Bob Thompson and Friends Return to Provincetown

Review by Cleo Harrington

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