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Two New Visual Arts Programs Help Boston Medical Center Residents and Fellows Hone Their Skills as Clinicians

November 3, 2025

Image: Cover art for Christopher Rhodes’ come book, TEN. A silver-themed masked superhero wearing a cape is shown flying with black and red background. He flies toward the red title "TEN".

Books

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Politically Charged Superhero Comic!

June 14, 2023

Photo: Two people are looking at framed artwork and comic pages in a gallery. The individual on the left is wearing a tan jacket, a white canvas bag, denim pants, sneakers, and a scarf in their hair. The individual on the right is wearing an all black ensemble with a black fedora.

Gallery

New Stone Gallery Show Makes the Case That Comics Aren’t Just for Kids, but for Everyone

February 21, 2023

Photo taken from behind Theo Tyson, the Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts at the MFA, regarding the work on display at Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection, particularly Ebony G. Patterson’s II piece Trees in a Forest. Tyson is a tall, young man of color with his hair pulled up, dressed in black and wearing a black backpack.

Visual Arts

Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection Celebrates Diverse Artists

February 7, 2022

Photo of CFA SVA Director Dana Clancy in a red button down looking towards the camera as she holds a painted page of the NYTimes in a gallery of her work.

Visual Arts

Two Ways of Exploring Visual Narrative

July 21, 2021

A photo of Graffiti Alley

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Spray Paint the Walls of Cambridge’s Graffiti Alley

July 10, 2021

A photo of Abbey McCracken with her bullet journal

Student Voices

Bullet Journaling: Helping Maintain Mindfulness and Self-care

April 27, 2020

Boston University student Emmanuel Reid poses for a photo with some of his doodle drawings.

Drawing

Their Work Will Amaze You: Meet the Doodlers of BU

April 1, 2020

Illustrations demonstrating the best entry points in the skull for neurosurgeons.

Fine Arts

Accurate Art

March 6, 2020

Paul Karasik who teaches “drawing into animation” at the College of Fine Arts holds up a book of comics to show his class

Arts & Culture

Drawing Out the Punch Line

November 7, 2019

Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Things-to-do

Harvard Art Museums Offer Dazzling Array of Shows

July 12, 2016

Shimmer Claudia Ravaschiere and Michael Moss Installation in Fort Point Boston

Local

Fort Point Open Studios Returns This Weekend

June 17, 2016

Institute of Contemporary Art Boston

Culture

Free Admission at Institute of Contemporary Art Tonight

June 2, 2016

Sulley, the star of Pixar’s Monsters Inc. and Monsters University, is just one of the characters visitors can pose with in the current Museum of Science exhibition The Science Behind Pixar.

Fine Arts

Exploring the Science Behind Pixar

July 16, 2015

Matthew Ritchie’s painting Remanence in the lobby of the Institute of Contemporary Art, where admission is free each Thursday evening. Photo courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art, copyright Geoff Hargadon

Drawing

Thursday Nights at the ICA Are Free

June 4, 2015

Boston University BU, College of Fine Arts CFA, BU Arts Initiative, Mural funding

Painting

855 Comm Ave Mural a Community Effort

May 7, 2013

Boston University BU alum, sidewalk sam, boston street sidewalk art for the masses

Boston

Pavement Populist

October 22, 2012

Paper Zoo exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Gallery

Animals Invade the MFA

June 5, 2012

Fine Arts

Remembrance as the Secret of Redemption

April 26, 2012

Kate McNamara, Boston University Art Gallery, BUAG

Gallery

New Face of the BU Art Gallery

November 17, 2011

New Face of the BU Art Gallery