Open Studio with Jared Bowen

Jared heads to the Museum of African American History to view Picturing Frederick Douglass, an exhibition featuring Frederick Douglass, the most photographed American of the 19th century, and how he leveraged the growing medium.

Join Jared for a trip to the Fitchburg Art Museum to view Fantastical, Political, an exhibition featuring five large-scale works that confront the country's ongoing political dilemmas.

Jared profiles artist Robert Freeman, whose show Mardi Gras Indians is on view at the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Roxbury.

A conversation with actor George Takei about Allegiance, a musical based on his childhood, presented by SpeakEasy Stage Company.

Take a look back at Jared's features on Walter Isaacson and Leonardo Da Vinci, Worcester Art Museum's The Mystery of Worcester's Leonardo, Klimt & Schiele at the MFA, and Inventur-Art in Germany, 1943-55 at Harvard Art Museums.

Jared heads to the International Museum of World War II to explore their exhibition, Women in WWII: On the Home Fronts and the Battlefronts, spotlighting the roles of women during WWII, including never-before-exhibited Ansel Adams photographs of Massachusetts women who were part of the war effort.

Revisit Jared's coverage of Jagged Little Pill, Paddington Comes to America, Picturing Frederick Douglass and Robert Freeman's Mardi Gras Indians.

Head to the Peabody Essex Museum for their retrospective of photographer Sally Mann, Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings.

Explore artist Fujiko Nakaya's Fog x FLO "fog sculptures" at Boston's Emerald Necklace Conservancy.

Visit the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum to tour Yayoi Kusama: Where Lights in My Heart Go and other new installations.

Join Jared to explore Wellesley College's Davis Museum, presenting Christiane Baumgartner: Another Country, a mid-career survey of the German printmaker.

Learn about Outsider Art through the work of 19 artists on display at the Tufts University Art Gallery.

Head to the Harvard Art Museums with Jared to witness a unique collection of animal-shaped vessels designed for ceremonial dining and social rituals.

Learn more about the global refugee crisis with Candice Breitz' seven-channel video installation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Explore the dynamic dance world of choreographer William Forsythe with a new ICA exhibition of performative objects, video installations, and interactive sculptures.

Discover BASE Hologram, a California company employing laser and hologram technology to present "live" concerts by such artists as Maria Callas, Roy Orbison and Amy Winehouse.

This special edition of Open Studio revisits three interviews with pioneers in the arts.

Jared Bowen heads to the Massachusetts Historical Society to witness an exhibit of never-before-seen pieces of clothing, fabric and accoutrements from the 17th to the 19th centuries.

Jared travels to the Berkshires to see the Clark Art Institute's new exhibition of works by Joseph Mallord William Turner and John Constable.

Jared heads to the Museum of Fine Arts to see a five-decade career retrospective of Graciele Iturbide, one of Mexico's most celebrated photographers.

Jared takes Open Studio audiences to the Davis Museum at Wellesley College to view the work of photographer Tabitha Soren.

The Harvard Art Museums delves into the world of Bauhaus to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the German art school's founding.

Jared Bowen takes audiences to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to view "Botticelli: Heroines + Heroes.

Jared takes viewers to the Fitchburg Art Museum for a retrospective of the late artist Otto Piene.

Open Studio takes audiences to the newly renovated Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, which reopened in January 2019.

Open Studio takes audiences to the Worcester Art Museum to see nine versions of Claude Monet's well-known paintings of London's Waterloo Bridge.

Open Studio tours the Society of Arts + Crafts and welcomes the organization's new Executive Director Brigitte Martin.

Open Studio tours the Institute of Contemporary Art for an exhibition of contemporary sculpture created by Pakistani-born artist Huma Bhabha.

Jared takes viewers to "Harlem: In Situ," an exhibition at the Phillips Academy Addison Gallery of American Art.

Open Studio reviews some of the best museum experiences from this season, many of which are still on view this summer!

This week, Open Studio reviews some of the season's musical guests.

This week, Open Studio visits New Bedford for the inaugural Summer Winds festival, hosted by DATMA.

This week, Jared takes to the skies in a 100-foot tall reflective hot air balloon with curator Pedro Alonzo and Doug Aitken, the artist responsible for a new arts initiative from The Trustees' "Art & the Landscape" series titled New Horizon.

This week, Open Studio tours a range of exhibitions at Mass MoCA in North Adams, including installations from singer Annie Lennox and artist Trenton Doyle Hancock.

This week, Tony and Grammy Award-winner Billy Porter stops by to discuss the world premiere of "The Purists" at the Huntington Theatre Company, which he directs.

Open Studio tours the Peabody Essex Museum's new 40,000 square foot wing and 5,000 square foot garden, scheduled to open September 28th.

This week, Open Studio tours a new exhibit at the Cape Ann Museum featuring 51 original Winslow Homer seascape paintings.

At the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA, Men of Steel, Women of Wonder examines the influence of Superman and Wonder Woman on American pop culture since their creation some 80 years ago.

This week on Open Studio, the MIT Museum presents The Polaroid Project: at the Intersection of Art and Technology, a fascinating retelling of the story of the Polaroid company featuring all aspects of Polaroid photography, including the technology that made it possible.

Open Studio visits the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to check out the "Ancient Nubia Now," a first-of-its-kind exhibition that excavates the museum's impressive holdings of Nubian artifacts to reconstruct the narrative surrounding the region.

This week, Open Studio tours Orchard House, the Concord home of Louisa May Alcott and her family and the place where she wrote Little Women.

This week, Open Studio visits the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston to preview the exhibition When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art.

Open Studio visits the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, where a new exhibition explores the ravages of the opioid crisis.

At the Peabody Essex Museum, a new exhibit called Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle showcases the "Struggle Series" paintings of one of the best-known black American artists of the 20th century.

Jared hits the streets of Boston to profile Detroit Red, a world-premiere ArtsEmerson production from playwright Will Power about the early days of Malcolm X, who was known as Detroit Red during his time in Boston in the 1940s.

Open Studio tours the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's new exhibit, "Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent.

This week, Open Studio visits the recently renovated MassArt Art Museum, which has re-opened as free to the public with exhibitions by artists Ghost of a Dream and Joana Vasconcelos, among others.

This week, a look at the exhibition, "Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation" at the MFA, a collaboration between musicians Richard Sebring and Charles Overton, to create "Listen, to the Cry of Your Fellow Man," streaming at the BLO.

Photographers OJ Slaughter and Philip Keith on documenting activism and social issues.

This week, "Robert Frank: The Americans" exhibit at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Wampanoag artist and scientist Elizabeth James Perry's new exhibit, "Ripples.

This week, a conversation and look at the work of artist Stephanie Cole and her exhibit at The Fuller Craft Museum; New Repertory Theatre's Artistic Director, Michael Bobbitt, on creating work in the time of COVID and the racial reckoning in theatre; and Sara Porkalob's "Dragon Mama" and "Dragon Lady.

The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum has a new exhibition, "Visionary New England," complete with contemporary images and historical pieces that recognize the area's contribution to alternative thought.

A preview of the making of The Boston Ballet's "The Gift," their streaming project, Handel + Haydn Society's free performance, and a preview of Handel's "Messiah" in collaboration with GBH, which airs on Sunday, entitled "Messiah for Our Time.

This week, the Museum of Fine Arts has put all 35 of its Monet works on view for the first time in 25 years; artist Dave Cole's installation, "New Landscapes" at UMass Dartmouth's University Art Gallery in New Bedford; visual artist and sculptor Teresita Fernandez's recent retrospective, "Elemental" at the Perez Art Museum in Miami; and Nevada plein air artist Monika Piper Johnson.

This week, international artist Shen Wei's exhibition, "Painting in Motion," at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, an interview with Steven Koppel, founder of the EDI Institute about technology and using art to express feelings beyond words.

A new exhibition: "Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion" at the Peabody Essex Museum with over 100 pieces covering 250 years of fashion design.

Boston's famed Hatch Memorial Shell soundtrack and light show "Hatched: Breaking through the Silence," ArtsEmerson's streamed production of "A Brimful of Asha" and Executive Director David Howse, filmmaker John Waters' art at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and artist Roy Lichtenstein's Modern Head sculptures on the campus of Ohio State University.

The restoration of the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial of the 54th regiment; an interview with director James Darrah on his commissioned film opera, "The Fall of The House of Usher," for the Boston Lyric Opera; an exhibit at the Frank C.

The South Asian art galleries at Peabody Essex Museum; a discussion about the American road trip with MassArt professor Amani Willett, author of ?A Parallel Road?; another look at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum exhibition ?Visionary New England?; and Florida artist Debbie Baudin on creating hand-painted glass designs.

This week, public art installations "The Herd" and "To Each Era Its Art.

The Fitchburg Art Museum on giving back to the community during the COVID crisis through volunteerism, and breathtaking kimonos in a new exhibition, ?The Kimono in Print: 300 Years of Japanese Design,? with Worcester Art Museum director Matthias Waschek.

Two exhibits at the Museum of Russian Icons: "Painted Poetry: Alexander Gassel, A Retrospective" and "Miniature Masterpieces: Russian Lacquer Boxes.

Through the prism of the Iguana Music Fund facilitated by Club Passim, we examine the state of local music via three of this year's fund recipients; a conversation with Grammy-winning violinist Gil Shaham discussing his career, new album, and performance for the IDAGIO app; and Daniel Chester French's sculpture in Boston's Public Garden.

The American Heritage Museum in Stow and their display of 50 restored tanks and armored vehicles dating back to 1917; the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and their ability to thrive during the pandemic when many arts organizations have not; another look at photographer Robert Frank's work "The Americans"; and a Florida exhibit on comic books and graphic novels.

Healthcare workers team up with a country music songwriter to create music based on their experiences during COVID-19 in ?Frontline Songs?; a new documentary ?Beethoven in Beijing? airing this weekend on PBS? s Great Performances about the history of how classical music is beloved in China yet struggles in the United States; and another look at ?Hype Man,? a play at the A.

A retrospective of artist Mel Kendrick's career at the Addison Gallery of American Art; an interview with the co-directors of the Oscar nominated documentary Crip Camp, Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham; an interactive art show in Miami; and artist and anthropologist Zoe Bray from Reno, Nevada.

Artist Sonya Clark and double exhibits at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum: Sonya Clark: Monumental Cloth, The Flag We Should Know and Sonya Clark: Heavenly Bound.

Springfield native and Academy Award-winning costume designer Ruth Carter's career retrospective at the New Bedford Art Museum; Shelter Music Boston's Voices from the Land initiative, bringing classical music performances into homeless shelters that includes the work of young indigenous composers.

New emerging artists at MassArt x SoWa, music and conversation with jazz musician Witness Matlou, Boston Lyric Opera's traveling opera performances, and the Museum of Graffiti in Florida.

A new exhibit, "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s," at the McMullen Museum of Art; TWENTY-ONE IN TRURO at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, featuring 21 female artists that have come together annually for over 20 years to paint and support one another; the work of painter, author, and bird watcher David Allen Sibley at the Museum of American Bird Art; and Texas artist David McGee.

"What the Nazis Stole from Richard Neumann (and the search to get it back)" at the Worcester Art Museum, singer/entertainer John Davidson and his venue Club Sandwich in New Hampshire, artist Shen Wei and the exhibit "Painting in Motion" at the Gardner Museum, and Reno musician/accordion player Corky Bennett.

Artist Firelei Baez and her sculptural installation at the ICA Watershed; Tony winner Harriet Harris from the PBS Masterpiece program "Atlantic Crossing" on playing Eleanor Roosevelt on television and in a one-woman show at the Barrington Stage Company; artist Mickalene Thomas' interactive, three-dimensional installation "Better Nights" at the Bass Museum of Art in Florida; and The Classical Tahoe Music Festival in Nevada.

Some favorite pieces highlighting turn-of-the-century artists: artist John Singer Sargent and his longtime, African-American model Thomas McKeller in the exhibit "Boston's Apollo," writer Henry James, artist James McNeill Whistler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton, and the Crane Estate in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Today, we revisit segments featuring poet Amanda Gorman, photographer and writer Amani Willett, and abstract painter Arthur Dove.

A tour of Water 2021, a new exhibit at Design Art Technology Massachusetts (DATMA) in New Bedford.

This week, Open Studio revisits segments on the American Heritage Museum, Shaw Memorial, Michael Murphy/MASS Design Group, and the Salem witch trials.

"In American Waters" at the Peabody Essex Museum; an interview with singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier on creating music and her new memoir, "Saved by a Song"; contemporary art at El Espacio 23 in Miami; and interpreting art using images of the COVID-19 virus in Ohio.

Potter Roberto Lugo and his exhibition at the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire; Hurricane Diane at the Huntington Theatre Company; another look at artist Sonya Clark's exhibit at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum; M Ensemble Company in Miami; and a look at Billboard Hope in Roxbury, featuring images by 13 artists including Ekua Holmes.

The exhibit "Titian: Women, Myth & Power" at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, comedian Jacqueline Novak and her one-woman show "Get on Your Knees," an Oklahoma artist on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and aerial photography along the Eastern Seaboard.

As the Rose Museum at Brandeis University reopens, we profile an exhibition that examines the identity artist Frida Kahlo crafted for herself.

An exhibit of Cuban painter Mariano Rodriguez's work at the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College.

We revisit the new MassArt Art Museum after going through a renovation; the Massachusetts Design, Art & Technology institute (DATMA) presents the exhibit A tour of Water 2021; healthcare workers team up with Mary Gauthier, professional musician and songwriter, to create music based on their experiences during COVID-19 in ?Frontline Songs?; and actress Harriet Harris from the PBS Masterpiece program ? Atlantic Crossing? on playing Eleanor Roosevelt.

A new exhibit at the MFA called Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories; the Boston Symphony Orchestra's new President & CEO, Gail Samuel; another look at artist Yayoi Kusama's Love Is Calling exhibit, reopening at the ICA this weekend; and editorial cartoonist and artist Jeff Stahler.

The Manship Artists Residency (MARS) in Gloucester offers a nocturnal exhibition of sculpture called ALight on MARS; an interview with actor Alan Cumming and NPR host Ari Shapiro on their collaboration Och & Oy!

Frank Lloyd Wright houses in New Hampshire, an interview with artist Whitney White on the new theatrical performance ?Macbeth In Stride? at the A.

In this time of pandemic pivoting we visit the North Bennet Street School, an institution renowned for its woodworking instruction, to profile professionals who have made the turn away from their careers and into making.

On today's episode, we visit Salem, where artists are turning a once-overlooked neighborhood into a point of pride by converting residential buildings into towering gallery walls.

On today's episode, we meet artist Eben Haines, who recently won the Institute of Contemporary Art's James and Audrey Foster Prize.

Today is a special edition of Open Studio, where Jared Bowen puts the spotlight on dynamic duos, revisiting some of his favorite conversations with creative collaborators.