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Visual Arts

Composite image. At left, photo of a painting by Jade Nortey, featuring an abstract portrait of a Black woman with wavy flowing hair. She smiles contently in front of a purple and pink swirling background. At right, Shaffer's landscape painting which features snowy pines. The sky color is very dull tan and the branches of the pine in the foreground have some snow on them.

Arts & Culture

Art Days Returns to Medical Campus, in Person Again

February 18, 2022

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 Untangle Magazine’s creators Emily Wu (left) and Alyssa Yeh, 2 Asian American women. They sit on a brownstone stoop and smile to the camera.

Asian American Experience

BU Students Launch New Magazine Celebrating the Various Nuances of the Asian American Experience

January 21, 2022

Photo of Anne Everest Wojtkowski (1935-2014), the first woman to graduate from the Boston University College of Industrial Technology. The photo is black and white and pictures Wojtkowski writing at a desk with a lamp. She has short dark hair.

Arts & STEM

Honoring BU’s Women in STEM through Artwork

November 2, 2021

Boston University Terriers mens ice hockey team lines up at center ice while the national anthem plays at Agganis Arena.

Things-To-Do

The Weekender: October 14 to 17

October 14, 2021

a photo of the entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on a sunny day

Weekender

Fun Things to Do Indigenous Peoples Day Weekend

October 8, 2021

Photo of artwork entitled “Matter of Time,” depicting a boy and his father sitting on a bench on the sidewalk. It is made from both paint and collage. The figures are gestalts and are faceless.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Visit the MFA’s New Exhibition, Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes

August 3, 2021

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

Firelei Baez's sculpture depicting the ruins of Sans-Souci Palace on display at the ICA Watershed in Boston

Visual Arts

To Do Today: Visiting Haiti’s Past at This Year’s ICA Watershed

July 19, 2021

Digital image of the photograph 'Mercury Rising' by Katherine Richmond.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Marine Art Show on Newbury Street

July 16, 2021

Image of the painting Bottled Water by Diana Cheren Nygren

Arts & Culture

To Do Today: Emerging Artists Exhibition

July 12, 2021

A photo of Graffiti Alley

Things-to-do

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

July 10, 2021

The painting Six Crimee

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation at the MFA

June 3, 2021

A photo of Soundsuit by Nick Cave

Things-to-do

To Do Today: ICA Free Thursday Nights

May 27, 2021

Photo of three paintings by Cailyn Masson (CFA’21) on view in the BFA Thesis Exhibition. The paintings are of various sizes and feature stripes of pastel colors that resemble sunsets.

Fine Arts

BFA Thesis Exhibition Offers Mesmerizing Look at Seniors’ Work

May 7, 2021

A photo of fall foliage in the Boston Public Garden

Weekender

The Columbus Day Weekender: October 8 to 12

October 8, 2020

Illustration by Emily Lynn Perelman of books, pencils and and the Citgo sign in Boston.

Illustration

Otherworldly Art

February 13, 2020

Visitors enjoy the Arnold Arboretum’s annual Lilac Sunday

In the City

The Weekender: May 9 to 12

May 8, 2019

Fine Arts

CFA Student Wins Poster Contest for Zach Braff Movie

April 17, 2019

Caolan Disini (CAS'20) from left, Maria Dominguez (CAS'21), and Jared Yellen (CAS'21) with the BU Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality club

Visual Arts

Exploring the World of Augmented and Virtual Reality

March 28, 2019

Exploring the World of Augmented and Virtual Reality