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Marking Resilience: Indigenous North American Prints is the first of two temporary exhibitions planned by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston to showcase recent acquisitions of prints by Indigenous artists of the United States and Canada.

To “read“ Eddie Martinez’s new show Wavelengths demands that we activate our propensity for a scattered, frenetic attention. In his paintings, Martinez, as ever, sends us spiraling through all possible associations, from nature to toys to politics, from still life to continual-motion life, to jazz and to sports.

What the exhibition aims to document are contemporary artists’ reactions to a shared, ongoing global ecological crisis and protests against it. Many of the works provide sanguine visions for a possible future marked by a symbiotic relationship between humans and “nature”—which, more often than not, is consonant with natural history and bare wilderness.

Río de Niebla, Río de Adobe, Río de Sangre by Tania Ximena delves into how mountain ranges play an essential role in the life of surrounding biomes and urban centers. Through intensive research, she creates paintings and video installations that map the journey from the North Glacier located in Citlaltépetl—or Pico de Orizaba—to the Jamapa River, inhabited by an Afro-Mestizo population, flowing into Boca del Río, a small town south of Veracruz, a port...

Little portals into the chaotic core of childhood playtime comprise Small Worlds at Trotter&Sholer, the latest solo show by New York-based, mixed media artist Bonnie Lucas.

Peeping out of rounded rectangular boxes, rapidly shuttering cameras capture gallery goers at numerous angles, emphasizing those viewers who foray into the inverted panopticon’s proscenium to perform for the machine. The photos are then projected onto the wall in rapid succession, the gestalt being a structural film befitting a mass surveillance age.

It’s not hard, gazing at the photographs James Welling has assembled in Thought Objects, to picture their creator holding a paintbrush rather than a camera. The show’s standout work is a striking combination of seascape, screenprint overlay, and abstract coloration whose stippled, almost woody texture defies formal categorization.

On the occasion of the awarding of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Rail Books section co-editors Elizabeth Lothian and Joseph Salvatore interviewed 2023 recipient Tyriek White about his debut novel We Are a Haunting. In their conversation, White discusses troubling the boundaries between Western ideas of life and death, writing a story about growing up in a predominantly Black and brown, blue-collar neighborhood, and how Brooklyn to him represents an attitude, a demeanor, and a set of ...

If you can’t feel the joy in Tamara Gonzales’s paintings, call an ambulance. Her newest body of work (twenty-one paintings made in 2023) spreads across four walls, two of which are hung salon style. The effect of being surrounded by Gonzales’s colorful paintings is overwhelming. To feel the buoyant and rejuvenating energy of spring on a gray day in mid-winter is a profound gift.

I must admit, I didn’t do what I had proposed in my application, and it was the best decision I made. I had written that I would work on some of my video projects, which the residency time away from New York could have provided. But even before I left for Venice, I realized I needed to do some things that situated me specifically in the place—the uniqueness of Venice—rather than working on video footage that has nothing particular to do with this magical place that I could easily ...