Issue 13: Make Believe
$21.00
Issue 13 makes room for many forms of imagining. Maria Molteni and Laura Campagna draw parallels between the nineteenth-century Era of Manifestations and a heightened sense of spiritualism today. Jordan Barrant examines the portals that Caribbean artists have brought to Boston. Emily Sara and Sara Hendren imagine a world where disability design becomes quotidian. In our Community Voices section, we hear from local theater makers about the pieces of stagecraft that have enlivened recent performances. And for our artist project, we asked four artists to each share a design for a mask, with results that are by turns whimsical, playful, and pointed in their social commentary. Plus so much more...
On our cover, Tomashi Jackson's Time and Space (2020) layers archival images from the Civil Rights Movement with ephemera from the 2020 election—an election marked by an uptick in polling place closures. Issue 13 will make its debut just days before the 2024 election. Here, and in conversation with Alisa Prince, Jackson reminds us that history and the present are always intertwined, but more importantly, that the systems we take for granted are never guaranteed.
Subscribe, Save, and Score Invites
Subscribe and save! Get every issue of Boston Art Review with free shipping along with invites to special events.
In this Issue
Title
Author
Category
Link
From the Editor
Jameson Johnson
Letter
Holding a Mirror to Heaven: How parallels between the Shaker Era of Manifestations and early Spiritualism movements might inform our present
Laura Campagna and Maria Molteni
Feature
READ
Blueprints for Building Something Big: The Indigo Arts Alliance is supporting Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists in Maine and beyond
Jessica Shearer
Feature
At ICA / Boston, Caribbean Artists Provide Portals to Other Worlds, But Who Enters?
Jordan Barrant
Feature
READ
Ripple Effect: Lani Ascunción confronts colonial pasts while envisioning liberated futures
Grace Talusan
Profile
READ
A Lifetime of Layering: How Tomashi Jackson moves between history, place, and an ever-expanding practice
Alisa Prince
Profile
READ
Bringing Accessible Design Thinking Out of the Classroom: In conversation with Sara Hendren and Emily Sara
Jameson Johnson
Conversations
Rendering the Self as Myth, Monster, and Muse: In conversation with Hakeem Adewumi
Erwin Kamuene
Conversations
On Kinship with Land and One Another: In conversation with Deanna Ledezma, Josh Rios, and Anthony Romero
Jameson Johnson
Conversations
READ
The Art of Stagecraft: Local theater makers offer a behind-the-scenes look at designs that work magic on stage
Jacquinn Sinclair
Community Voices
Masks
Soyoung L Kim, Laura Beth Reese, Michael C. Thorpe, and Beatriz Whitehill
Artist Project
"Barbara Bosworth: The Meadow" at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Kate Schreiber
Reviews
"Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith" at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Karolina Hać
Reviews
READ
"Scandalous Conduct: A Fairy Extravaganza" at the Great Friends Meeting House
Marcus Civin
Reviews
"John Vo" at Worcester Art Museum
Toby Wu
Reviews
