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At a little museum on Huntington Avenue, 200 feet of linen, lined with colorful images of dinosaurs, depicts the history of fossil fuels from the Triassic Period to the late-1900s when researchers showed carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were steadily rising.

I see culture as fluid and history as an expanding people map, moving through interaction and the creation of rituals and customs to mark a civilization’s expanding territories in time.

This weekend, visitors to the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury might spot some unusual characters. The center’s typical runners and basketball players will be replaced with superheroes, steampunk warriors and anime adventurers during the annual Boston Comics in Color Festival celebrating stories by and about people of color. and about people of color.

This is the fourth in a weekly series presenting highlights of conversations between Boston artist Paul Goodnight and leading Black visual artists in New England. In this week’s podcast, Goodnight interviews painter Lucilda Dassardo-Cooper.

This the second in a weekly series presenting conversations between Boston artist Paul Goodnight and leading Black visual artists in New England.

A new celebration of culture is coming to town in the form of the Greater Roxbury Arts & Cultural Center, a long-awaited space in Nubian Square that will celebrate Black and Latino culture and art.

At first glance, the works in “Cedric Harper: ANCESTRAL LANGUAGE,” running at the Boston Center for the Arts through April 15, look minimalistic. But on closer inspection, these intricate pieces reveal layers of texture, paint and symbolism.

Multidisciplinary artist and professor Danielle Abrams, who worked in performance, installation, drawing and collage, and who taught at Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts, passed away on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at the age of 54.

Helga Davis’ new term as the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s visiting curator for the performing arts may be only a year, but she’s in it for the long haul. Davis comes to the museum with an extensive resume in theater, music and fine art, and she has big plans for inclusive, diverse programming for the 2018–19 season.

Boston-based artist Steve Locke’s latest project is an installation called “Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray),” to be placed on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade of the Gardner Museum on Evans Way on Tuesday, June 26.

When painter Alexandre Emmanuel Henrique emigrated from Brazil in 2004, it was nature that introduced him to the United States. Through his travels all over the country, particularly in California and New England, the artist discovered landscapes, animals, insects and phenomena he had never encountered in South America. These discoveries inspired “Elements,” an exhibition at Piano Craft Gallery in Boston through June 24.