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Harvard to retain Sackler name on two university-owned buildings

"Arthur Sackler’s legacy is not necessarily deplorable but rather is complex, ambiguous and debatable," committee members wrote in a report released to the public Wednesday.

On your mark. Get set. G.O.A.T.
“G.O.A.T.: The Sports Photography of Walter Iooss” runs at the Fitchburg Art Museum through Jan. 5.

Smithsonian curator Angela Tate to join Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket
She will be the museum’s first chief curator and director of collections.

Jewelry artist Tanya Crane mixes small scale with ‘Big Pimpin’’

"Jewelry and sculpture are pretty much the same," says the Providence-based professor.

Cape Ann Museum goes public with capital campaign
The Cape Ann Museum has already raised $18 million in a campaign to renovate buildings and make other improvements at the Gloucester museum.

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW
‘I’m sort of a spy’: ‘Vivian Maier Unseen Work’ presents work of photographer who preferred seeing to showing
Disappearance for Maier — that is, remaining unseen — verged on vocation.

REVIEW
Science and myth meet in ‘Sea Monsters: Wonders of Nature and Imagination,’ at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
The idea of monsters out there in international waters — and sometimes swimming right up to the shore — figures in so many cultures it would appear to be primal.

Acton’s Discovery Museum wins National Medal for Museum and Library Service
When families visit the Discovery Museum, they can engage in both indoor and outdoor play. Inside, there are sound, simple machine, water, and air play galleries, and outside, there are plenty of ways for kids to get active, including a wheelchair-accessible Discovery Treehouse.

More Visual Arts Headlines

At the Farnsworth, a rare look at Andrew Wyeth’s forays into abstraction

The celebrated American realist’s fascinating abstract experiments lasted decades, yet are little known.

He heard America singing: A show at Harvard’s Carpenter Center celebrates Harry Smith

Remembering an artistic visionary and true one-of-a-kind.

In East Boston, Atlantic Works Gallery artists share immigration stories, community

A community day, Aug. 3, invites the East Boston community for food, music, dancing, and conversations with artists, with translators in Spanish available if needed.

ART REVIEW

At Harvard: volumes large and small, the aesthetic life of plants, volcanic eruptions

Look closely, and the pairings have tales to tell

WORKING ARTIST

French muralist Julien Colombier: ‘It’s a little like electronic music. It’s layer and layer and layer.’

The self-taught artist has painted an acrylic jungle in Revere.

Two new curatorial hires at the MFA

Carmen Hermo will hold the title of Lorraine and Alan Bressler curator of contemporary art, while Claire Howard will be Hansjörg Wyss curator of modern art.

‘It was like being in a very exciting film’: Paul McCartney describes being at the center of Beatlemania

“Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm” is a front-row seat on that film. It runs at the Brooklyn Museum through Aug. 18.

Beau McCall, a.k.a. The Button Man, blurs the lines between art, fashion, and craft

His button-centric works are now on display at Fuller Craft Museum and Childs Gallery.