Dig up your dirt — for a new sculpture coming to the Greenway

Titled "Going to Ground," the sculpture by LaRissa Rogers will forefront soil as a material that holds "histories of liberation, of trauma, of everything. . . . It’s kind of this living archive."

Critic's Notebook

At last at the MFA, an answer to the ‘Appeal to the Great Spirit’ problem

The museum's solution starts with Mohawk artist Alan Michelson, a Boston native.

‘It’s torn our community apart’: Rift deepens over Portland Museum of Art expansion plan

Is the multimillion-dollar “landmark for the future” at odds with protecting Portland’s historic downtown? That’s the question at the heart of a contentious debate in Maine’s largest city.

Berkshire Museum plans major renovation

The project, which follows a controversial sale of artwork, will expand the museum’s aquarium and reimagine its galleries.

WORKING ARTIST

‘Indigo is my calling card,’ says Roxbury artist Ifé Franklin

This month, her public art installation ‘The Resurrection of Mark, Phillis, & Phebe’ opens in Charlestown Navy Yard.

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW

At Harvard’s Peabody Museum, the photograph as reliquary

Wendel A. White’s "Manifest" shows the past emerging into a shared present.

How do you sit still and get paid at the same time? Try becoming a nude, figure-drawing model.

"If we all saw each other naked in more casual settings, it wouldn’t be such a big deal anyway," says one retiree, who’s been drawing at the Boston Figurative Art Center for a decade.