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Bee-havior: ''Festooning the Inflatable Beehive'' at BU's 808 Gallery

An art gallery may seem like an unconventional space for discussions on insect behavior, but Maria Molteni maintains beekeeping is as much an art as a science.

By: LIZ PELLY | February 06, 2013

Paper tigers: ''Graphic Advocacy'' at MassArt

There's a curious lack of urgency in "Graphic Advocacy: International Posters of the Digital Age 2001-2012" at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

By: GREG COOK | February 04, 2013

Talking about a revolution: ''Histories of Now'' at the School of the MFA

Last January, less than a year after crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square overthrew Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts presented "Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo."

By: GREG COOK | February 04, 2013

Movin' on up: Greer Muldowney's photography

It's night in Greer Muldowney's photo.

By: GREG COOK | January 30, 2013

Family Ties: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons's art

Family has long been one of the central subjects of Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons's art.

By: GREG COOK | January 30, 2013

Endless summer: A winter picnic in the Nave Gallery

A sneak peek at the inaugural exhibit at the Nave Gallery's brand-new annex space in Davis Square.

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | January 23, 2013

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Sinclair Hitchings's 'Art in Boston'

How much difference can one person make? Sinclair Hitchings hopes it's a substantial one when it comes to his "Art in Boston" project, which he began in 2006.

By: GREG COOK | January 23, 2013

Lawless Youth: Chanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless

Adolescence is tough on everyone. But imagine the growing pains that come along with a drunken mother who uses an ax to chop down your sister's bedroom door.

By: MEGAN JOHNSON | January 16, 2013

The eyes have it: The Capitoline Brutus at the MFA

Do not attempt a staring contest with this dude.

By: JACQUELINE HOUTON | January 16, 2013

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Frank Gohlke's New Topographics

"When that show was created, as odd as it seems now, it was extremely controversial," Frank Gohlke says of being featured in the landmark 1975 exhibit of deadpan photography, "New Topographics: Photographs of the Man-Altered Landscape" at New York's George Eastman House.

By: GREG COOK | January 15, 2013

Lady parts: ''The Origin of the World...'' at Samson

"The Origin of the World /\ The Force of the Source \/ The Cause of the Vigor" is a three parts brilliant, two parts non sequitur (or maybe it's the other way around) group show at Samson gallery.

By: GREG COOK | January 15, 2013

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Black female power: Mickalene Thomas's paintings

Mickalene Thomas's paintings teleport us to a black-is-beautiful American 1960s and '70s.

By: GREG COOK | January 11, 2013

Looking good: Upcoming art exhibits

Vaginas, posters, Ronald McDonald, grayed rainbows, and porcelain feature in our 10 most anticipated exhibitions of the winter.

By: GREG COOK | December 26, 2012

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Sandcastles and sunspots: The year in art

It was a year of bracing histories — '60s assassinations, '80s pandemics, and four decades of hubris in Iraq. But 2012's best art wasn't all bad news.

By: GREG COOK | December 17, 2012

Abstract-Expressionist New England

"American Vanguards" at the Addison Gallery tells how a tiny group of New York friends — Stuart Davis, John Graham, Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning "and their circle" — inspired by Picasso and Surrealism, exploded the last ties between Modernist painting and realism as they helped invent American Action Painting between the mid 1920s and mid '40s.

By: GREG COOK | December 12, 2012