Fifteen unhinged things said to independent artists, and what they reveal
A listicle of crude remarks from the music business reads, at a distance, like a field guide to how gatekeeping works in any creative field.
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Tonight in Boston: How to find last-minute culture
Same-day listings, venue newsletters and a little patience will fill an empty evening in Boston.
Ten million dollars in music royalties is missing, and the people owed it are the artists
A claim about uncollected music payments says something larger about how artists of every kind get paid — and how rarely the money finds its way back.
Events massachusetts: The Massachusetts event lover's year-round calendar
How the Bay State's fair and festival season moves from the coast to the valley to the Berkshires, and how to plan around it.
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Exhibitions definition: What actually counts as an exhibition? A plain-language explainer
Shows, retrospectives, surveys and permanent collections are not the same thing. Here is how the terms work, in everyday language.
The smart visitor's checklist for exhibitions in New York
Reading listings, timing the visit and keeping the crowds from ruining a blockbuster.
Exhibitions boston: How to plan a museum day in Boston without a car
The Green Line strings most of Boston's major museums together. A little sequencing turns a day of riding into a day of looking.
Group Show Guide — How to Read a Group Show: Making Sense of Themed Exhibitions
A group show puts many artists in one room, and it is easy to walk out unsure what you saw. Learn how to find the theme, read how the show was picked, and leave with a clear opinion instead of a blur.
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Hiawatha Music Co-op revives its Master Artists Series in Marquette
A Michigan co-op brought back a teaching-and-performance format with one show and two workshops — a modest restart, and a telling one.
Events in boston this weekend: Free things to do in Boston this weekend, every weekend
A repeatable weekend template — galleries, open studios, library programming and public art — that refreshes weekly without going stale.
What an Opening Reception Is Actually For, and When to Skip It
An opening reception is a preview of an art exhibition before the formal opening, with roots in the old varnishing days of the academies. Here is what it is actually for, who it serves, and when you are better off skipping it and visiting later.
Armory Show pushes 2026 edition to late September, expands Caribbean focus
The fair's VIP preview moves to September 24 to avoid clashing with Frieze Seoul, with roughly 230 galleries and two new Caribbean-focused sections.
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Hingham arts walk turns a town into a gallery: what open-studio events teach visitors
More than 130 local artists fill downtown Hingham this Sunday — a case study in how small-town art walks work, and how to get the most from one.
How to make the most of an outdoor art festival, from a small one that got it right
Brownsburg's Festival of the Arts offers a working checklist for visitors and artists alike — what to see, what to ask, and how to plan for the weather.
Artists bluff trail — Artists Bluff: the trail, the view, and the name behind New Hampshire's favorite short climb
A granite knob in Franconia Notch carries a painter's name and one of the White Mountains' best reward-for-effort ratios.
Houston artists take the floor as Untitled Art Fair returns with 98 galleries
The fair's second Houston edition scales up to 98 galleries from 20 countries and territories, and the local contingent has grown with it.
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Artists in the studio — Inside the studio: what artists' workspaces reveal
Clutter, light and habit leave fingerprints on finished work. A look at what a studio tells a visitor that a gallery wall never will.
Artist CV: How to Read an Artist's CV Before a Gallery Visit
An artist's CV is a short summary of a career: training, exhibitions, collections, and awards. Learn what each section means and what it can tell you before you walk into a gallery, so your next visit starts with context.
How New York commissions artists for its public buildings and subway stations
Percent for Art sets aside a share of city construction budgets for artwork, and the transit authority runs its own parallel commissioning system — here is how each one picks an artist.
What an artist residency means in New York
Studios, stipends, and fifty-eight years of the Studio Museum's program: how New York residencies work and which documented programs run today.
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How to write a guide people actually finish
Structure, not length, decides whether a reader reaches the last block of a practical guide.
Guidestar 990: How to read a charity's books before you donate
A charity's tax filing is public. Here is what to look for in it, and in what order, before you give.
When the Met is free, and what admission actually costs in 2026
The Metropolitan Museum of Art charges $30 general admission but remains pay-what-you-wish for New York State residents and tri-state students, per the museum's current policy.
How public art gets commissioned in New York, from percent-for-art to the subway
New York's public art runs through three channels — the city's Percent for Art law, the Public Design Commission, and MTA Arts & Design — each with its own budget rule and vetting process.
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Four years after the ArtCraft exodus, a happy ending worth reading skeptically
Cleveland's displaced artists say their new building is better. The fuller picture is more mixed, and more instructive for any city watching studio stock vanish.
Cover story mhairi mcfarlane: A reader's guide to the comfort-lit phenomenon of Mhairi McFarlane
Why contemporary women's fiction keeps topping reading lists, traced through one author's steady arc from romantic comedy to something heavier and truer.
Art fairs vs galleries — Art fairs vs. museums: where should a new collector start?
The fair floor, the gallery back room and the museum shop each teach a new collector something different — and the order matters more than the destination.
The Frick reopened its upstairs for the first time, and changed how the collection reads
The Frick Collection reopened in April 2025 after its Selldorf Architects renovation, opening second-floor galleries of the Gilded Age mansion for the first time in its history as a museum.