Coming Attractions: November 19 through December 5 —
What Will Light Your Fire
As a young woman living in post-revolutionary Iran, Arghavan Khosravi was arrested on the streets of Teheran because her hijab did not cover enough of her body. She came to New England in 2015 to pursue an MFA degree at RISD. Eight years later her first solo exhibition, Arghavan Khosravi, opens this weekend at the Newport Art Museum. Inspired by classical Persian miniature painting and Western surrealism, Khosravi’s paintings deal with the knotty subjects of freedom, agency, identity, and the role of women in both Iranian and American society. The show was previously on view in 2022 at the Currier Museum in Manchester, NH.
At least four New England art museums are planning family-friendly community days or open houses for the week after the Thanksgiving holiday. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art opens its annual Festival of Trees and Traditions on November 30. The lavishly embellished trees, wreaths, and other holiday decorations adorning the galleries through December 10 are all for sale to benefit the museum (a $5 admission surcharge will apply). Elsewhere, a Family See & Sketch takes place at the RISD Museum in Providence on December 2 from 10:30-11:30 a.m., the Bowdoin College Art Museum’s Family Saturday and Community Open House starts at 10 a.m. on the same day and finally the New Britain Museum of American Art’s Free Community Day and Makers Market will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on December 3.
— Peter Walsh
