Jean Shin's Green Reprieve

Jean Shin's Green Reprieve

Robin Hauck
ART

Jean Shin’s dual installation at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn offers a welcome respite after the madness of New York Art Week. Celadon Landscape and Offering draw inspiration from nature’s cyclical systems and the way diasporic community forms new wholes from seemingly disparate parts.

Adria Arch: Off the Wall

Adria Arch: Off the Wall

Robin Hauck
ART

Adria Arch’s show Anti-Gravity, installed in Distillery Gallery’s raw, lower-level space feels like it could be a set for an underground rave or an all-night dance party. This Saturday, May 2, Arch is planning something close: a choreographed activation of the space with the Human Movement Project. Aesthetically, politically, physically—this will be the ultimate culmination of a bold show from an artist refusing to play it safe.

Painting with Light

Painting with Light

Robin Hauck

Painting with Light: Contemporary Photography and the Legacy of Looking is curated by Robin Hauck and features the work of Clint Baclawski, Sarah Dinnick, John Ross, the Safarani Sisters, and Jason Zucco.

Across the exhibition, the artists share a commitment to technical precision, research, and patient looking. But more importantly, they share a belief in the power of wonder and awe. In a cultural moment defined by speed and artificiality, Painting with Light offers a space to engage deeply, to pause, and to experience the quiet astonishment of being alive.

May 1 - June 12 at the Gallery at J&T, 18 Bartlett Square, Jamaica Plain, MA.
Opening party May 1, 6 - 8pm featuring pizza truck, drinks, and fascinating company.

Join us!

Steve Locke: No Magic Only Justice

Steve Locke: No Magic Only Justice

Robin Hauck
ART

waiting for my man at LaMontagne Gallery is Steve Locke’s first solo show in Boston since the artist moved to New York in 2019. It was a painful departure, following withdrawal of his proposed Auction Block Memorial at Faneuil Hall after divisive opposition from the Boston NAACP. This exhibition signals a meaningful return to the city where the artist’s career took off. Last month, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where Locke taught for over a decade, welcomed him back for a live conversation with MASS MoCA’s Evan Garza, who curated Steve Locke: the fire next time (MASS MoCA Aug. 2024 – Nov. 2025). The house was packed, the energy was high. Steve Locke was back and the community celebrated.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts Celebrates the Expressive Power of Book Arts

The National Museum of Women in the Arts Celebrates the Expressive Power of Book Arts

Robin Hauck
ART

The National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrates artists working in all visual mediums. The upcoming A Book Arts Revolution is part of the Women to Watch exhibition series, shining light on emerging artists deserving national and international attention. The 2027 edition will focus on the place of book arts within contemporary art practices — and the MA chapter of the museum fetes the four women selected from our region: Amy Borezo, Sarah Hulsey, Abigail Roher and Anneli Skaar.

Hard 'n' Soft, Like LA

Hard 'n' Soft, Like LA

Robin Hauck

An ambitious, collaborative exhibition co-curated by Boston-based art advisory art_works and Los Angeles-based Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Hard ‘n' Soft explores the contested boundary between rigidity and flexibility in contemporary art, bringing together artists who deliberately subvert the expected properties of their materials.

Ritual Practice | Sacred Space

Ritual Practice | Sacred Space

Robin Hauck
ART

In a culture that demands constant visibility, availability and productivity from women, ritual and sacred space function as technologies of refusal - and as conditions for survival, creativity and self-possession.

You're Invited!

You're Invited!

Robin Hauck
ART

I’m thrilled to announce my upcoming show featuring the work of ten Boston artists. Ritual Practice | Sacred Space opens at the Beehive in Boston’s South End on January 15, 2026.

The 2025 Holiday Gift Guide, With a Little Help From Our Friends

The 2025 Holiday Gift Guide, With a Little Help From Our Friends

Robin Hauck

Every year Misstropolis’ Annual Holiday Gift Guide delivers inspiration just when you need it most. It’s always a reader favorite, and for 2025 we’ve made it even better with selections from some of the East Coast’s top tastemakers. Anne Poole, Mel Robbins, Alisa Neely, Lisa Pierpont, and Tiffany Chu weigh in on their favorite gift ideas, offering selections from near, far, and even the future.

Inaugural Wagner Art Fellows Daniela Rivera & L'Merchie Frazier Prove Print is the Medium of Protest

Inaugural Wagner Art Fellows Daniela Rivera & L'Merchie Frazier Prove Print is the Medium of Protest

Robin Hauck
ART

Inaugural recipients of the Wagner Foundation Art Fellowship L’Merchie Frazier and Daniela Rivera share their experiences venturing into the print studio with Lucy Rosenburgh of Caira Art Editions. Coming from their tactile, large scale, three dimensional and often participatory practices, both artists found expansiveness in the print experience, tapping into the medium’s history as a tool for public engagement and protest.

Danielle Mckinney's Language of Interiority

Danielle Mckinney's Language of Interiority

Robin Hauck
ART

“She has absorbed all of art history like a sponge. But when she wipes the sponge across our consciousness, the message is all Danielle Joy McKinney.” Misstropolis sits down with Gannit Ankori, Chief Curator of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis to discuss the artist’s first solo North American museum show Danielle McKinney: Tell Me More. The artist will be in conversation with the curator at the gallery on November 6.

Boston is the World and the World is Boston, the 2025 Foster Prize at the ICA

Boston is the World and the World is Boston, the 2025 Foster Prize at the ICA

Robin Hauck
ART

This year, the Foster Prize, curated by Tessa Bachi Haas, recognizes four artists whose work addresses our current moment in deeply personal and uniquely technical ways. Through their artistic labor, Alison Croney Moses, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Damien Hoar de Galvan and Sneha Shrestha (aka IMAGINE) remind us of the power of art to bring us together, especially when the world seems to want to tear us apart.

Load More