Arts Dec 31 These quilts weave together America’s rich, complicated history Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts holds a patchwork of American stories — assembled one quilt at a time. Jared Bowen of GBH Boston has a look as part of our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
Arts Nov 10 How Frida Kahlo’s signature style honored her heritage and queer identity Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become almost as famous for how she looked as how she painted. As a new exhibition at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum reveals, that look was entirely by her own design. Special correspondent Jared Bowen…
Arts Oct 22 How artist Mariano Rodríguez’s work honored his Cuban heritage while breaking rules One of Cuba's most celebrated avant-garde painters, Mariano Rodríguez, was a prolific 20th century artist whose exposure in the U.S. was cut short after the Cuban Revolution. But now there’s a resurfacing of his work at the McMullen Museum of…