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In this blast
:: Medieval | Renaissance: A Dialogue on Early Italian Painting at McMullen Museum of Art
:: Power on the Page: Arms and Armor on Paper at Worcester Art Museum
:: Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy at Fairfield University Art Museum
Sponsored By: Mother Brook Arts and Community Center, The Boston Printmakers, Art Complex Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Multicultural Arts Center, Annisquam Studios and Artscope Online.
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This week we're presenting McMullen Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum, and Fairfield University Art Museum.
The art world's cutting edge is always moving toward something novel, exciting and boundary pushing, but the art of 2025 wouldn't be anywhere without the centuries of artists who came before. This week's exhibitions highlight historic artwork with themes that inform viewers, celebrate history, and even provoke reactions.
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-Sawyer Smook-Pollitt
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Medieval | Renaissance: A Dialogue on Early Italian Painting at McMullen Museum of Art
in Boston, Massachusetts through December 7
| | Master of Barberino, Enthroned Madonna and Child with Bishop-Saint and Saint Michael the Archangel, ca. 1365, Tempera and gold on panel. The Frascione Collection. Image courtesy McMullen Museum of Art. | | McMullen Museum of Art presents Medieval | Renaissance: A Dialogue on Early Italian Painting. This exhibition, curated by John Lansdowne and Stephanie C. Leone, specialists in Medieval and Renaissance art, respectively, examines the "blurry line" between Medieval and Renaissance Italian artwork. Several works in this show have dual labels that highlight contrasting approaches and interpretations by Lansdowne and Leone. "These paintings represent a liminal epoch between the later Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance, whose works and artists are shared—even 'claimed'—by two divergent art historical fields," according to curatorial materials. "...the exhibition invites viewers to contemplate the works through two distinct art historical lenses and from either side of a long-standing and long-debated disciplinary divide." The museum is open Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 12 to 5 p.m. McMullen Museum of Art is located at 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA. For more information, please visit here. | | |
Power on the Page: Arms and Armor on Paper at Worcester Art Museum
in Worcester, Massachusetts from November 22 to February 16, 2026
| | Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, The Great Battle of Yashima, 9th month 1864, woodblock print, ink and color on paper, 2002.222. Image courtesy of Worcester Art Museum. | | Worcester Art Museum presents Power on the Page: Arms and Armor on Paper, an exhibition opening in conjunction with the Worcester Art Museum's new Arms and Armor Galleries. This show, compiled from the Museum's collection of works on paper, "[sheds] light on how arms and armor were made, used, and understood across historical periods and within a diverse range of cultures," according to curatorial materials. While hundreds of years separate us from knowing the exact relationship between historic people and their arms and armor, these 16th-century engravings, 19th-century photographs and other drawings and prints from across history provide a window through which to view their world. The museum is open Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Worcester Art Museum is located at 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA. For more information, please visit here. | | |
Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy at Fairfield University Art Museum
in Fairfield, Connecticut through December 20
| | Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City, ca. 1852–1853, oil on canvas. The New York Historical, Gift of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, 1925.6. Courtesy of The New York Historical. | | Fairfield University Art Museum presents Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy, a show organized by The New York Historical and curated by Wendy Nālani E. Ikemoto. This exhibition "explores monuments and their representations in public spaces as flashpoints of fierce debate over national identity, politics, and race that have raged for centuries," according to curatorial materials. "The exhibition reveals how monument-making and monument-breaking have long shaped American life as public statues have been celebrated, attacked, protested, altered, and removed." This show includes fragments of a statue of King George III torn down by American Revolutionaries, a souvenir replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City’s first public monument to a Black woman, Harriet Tubman, and much more. The museum is open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Fairfield University Art Museum is located at 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, CT. For more information, please visit here. | | Sponsored By: Mother Brook Arts and Community Center, The Boston Printmakers, Art Complex Museum, New Britain Museum of American Art, Multicultural Arts Center, Annisquam Studios and Artscope Online. | | Mother Brook Arts and Community Center | |
Celebrate winter at Mother Brook Arts and Community Center in Dedham, MA during Open Studios on December 6 and 7, 11am–5pm.
Enjoy 70+ artists, live demos, food trucks, two free all-ages art experiences—paper weaving and felting—and the new Small Works Sale during this festive creative weekend for all to enjoy.
motherbrook.org
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Now Open:
Traces by Kitty Wales
Through February 8, 2026
| Kitty Wales, Drift, 149" x 84" x 24" | |
Domestic table settings, disassembled furniture and recycled wood are the building blocks of these narrative assemblages.
Art Complex Museum
189 Alden Street
Duxbury, MA
artcomplex.org
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2026 North American Print Biennial
Call for Entry:
July 15 – February 15, 2026
Open to Artists residing in North America
Exhibition dates:
September 8 – November 21, 2026
The 2026 Juror:
Esther Adler, Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art
Download the prospectus:
bostonprintmakers.org
| New Britain Museum of American Art | |
Norman Rockwell: From Camera to Canvas
See the process behind Rockwell's iconic images. On view through February 15 at the New Britain Museum of American Art.
nbmaa.org
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Multicultural
Arts Center
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This winter, the Multicultural Arts Center proudly presents an exhibit of Donald Langosy’s new series, The Journey of Eduardo Gunkla, featuring a linked group of oil paintings and Photoshop compositions on canvas.
The exhibit opens on December 1, 2025, and will be on display until January 9, 2026.
The opening reception will be held on December 4.
Learn more at: multiculturalartscenter.org
Multicultural Arts Center
617-577-1400
41 Second Street
East Cambridge, MA 02141
multiculturalartscenter.org
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