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.

What To Do This Weekend, or How to Tattoo Your Soul

What To Do This Weekend, or How to Tattoo Your Soul

Robin Hauck
ART

Here it is, the last weekend of September 2025, and we haven’t seen all of the art yet. There’s always too much inspiration to soak in, too much beauty to behold and not enough time. But Misstropolis is here to guide you to the best. These don’t-miss shows will have you ending the month on a creative high note.

Andrew Gn: From Singapore to Salem

Andrew Gn: From Singapore to Salem

Robin Hauck
STYLE

If all the world’s a stage, then it follows that one must dress for it. As Shakespeare’s character Jaques explains in As You Like It, we play many roles in life and make many entrances and exits. The Peabody Essex Museum’s stunning exhibition Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World has me thinking about life’s theatricality and the way we dress ourselves for our most public and consequential performances.

Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World makes its North American debut at PEM now through February 16, 2026.

Comida Casera: Food as Story, Connection and Home

Comida Casera: Food as Story, Connection and Home

Robin Hauck
SPIRIT

Visual artist Evelyn Rydz was raised in Miami to Colombian and Cuban parents. Her body of work explores movement, migration, identity, climate and resiliency as understood through studies of water. In 2016, she launched a participatory community project called Comida Casera to bring people together from diverse backgrounds to share stories of immigration, food, and home. I was lucky enough to join a Comida Casera event at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park this August. I left with dozens of new friends and a deep gratitude for the timing of the event, given the censorship, erasure and violence faced by immigrants in America today.

The Safarani Sisters: Submerged in Time

The Safarani Sisters: Submerged in Time

Robin Hauck
ART

The Safarani Sisters: Submerged in Time is a solo show of new work by the Iranian-born, Boston-based twin sisters. Ethereal and deeply moving, the show addresses themes of time, longing, celebration and the intangible nature of memory through the artists’ signature video-paintings. On view at ShowUp Gallery in Boston’s South End through September 28, 2025.

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