Issue 15: Fall/Winter 2025
Tourmaline graces our cover, while inside, Issue 15 explores how memory, preservation, and practice shape what’s happening now—with exclusive artist projects, interviews, and our special Un-monument section. Every issue includes a copy of our brand-new map, Radar.
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Online • Mar 10, 2026
Jonathan González’s “suite for a minor meeting” Performance Carved Out a Delicate Presence
Quick Bit by Gabrielle Mitchell-Bonds
Online • Mar 10, 2026
American Artist’s “To Acorn” Seeds Octavia E. Butler’s Fiction into the Present
Review by John A. Tyson
Civic Culture • Mar 02, 2026
Whither Local Art Journalism Amidst the Collapse of the World Order?
Feature by Kim Córdova
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Online • Mar 10, 2026
American Artist’s “To Acorn” Seeds Octavia E. Butler’s Fiction into the Present
Meticulous drawings, sculptural installations, and a staged rocket experiment bring Butler’s speculative ideas into material form at the MIT List Visual Arts Center.
Review by John A. Tyson
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Online • Mar 10, 2026
Jonathan González’s “suite for a minor meeting” Performance Carved Out a Delicate Presence
Quick Bit by Gabrielle Mitchell-Bonds
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Turning Basil into Beats: How Sound Artist Skooby Laposky Makes Music with Plants
Interview by Jacqueline Houton
Online • Feb 23, 2026
Refuse, Roadkill, and Bodily Relics Survive in "Aftermath"
Quick Bit by Charlie Usadi
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Civic Culture • Mar 15, 2026
ArtWonk: Praise Shadows Lands in Boston, Ché Anderson to Lead Search for New MCC ED, Art Market Reports, and Dunkin’s Back in the Culture Wars
Praise Shadows debuts its Downtown Boston gallery, Ché Anderson will lead the search for Mass Cultural Council’s next executive director, new art market reports hint at a cautious market, and a group of plaintiffs alleges the NEH used ChatGPT to target grants tied to “DEI.” Also in the mix: a Boston Symphony Orchestra leadership shake-up, Governor Healey wades into a Dunkin’-flavored skirmish, and new Mass Cultural Council convenings on creative space development.
News by Kim Córdova
Civic Culture • Mar 02, 2026
Art Wonk: Biweekly Reporting from the Frontlines of Art, Culture, Policy, and Politics
Governor Healey’s proposed budget includes a 5-percent bump for the arts, Somerville mayor shakes up the city’s arts agency, and Creative Sector Day at the State House returns March 3.
News by Kim Córdova
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