This week, GBH Executive Arts Editor Jared Bowen talks poetry, a new kind of flower power by way of Vincent van Gogh, and how the local arts scene is riding out another wave of COVID-19.

Barely a trace of queer erotica remains on display in the galleries, despite the museum’s rich holdings.

History lives again through a staging, a virtual showing and an MFA exhibit.

Jared Bowen recommends a two-person exhibition of tapestries, visits a survey of one of today's singular photographers and explores an open air museum featuring 75 large-scale murals.

Plus, a stage play that follows a woman accused of witchcraft, and an immersive opera experience.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has a new exhibition that shines the spotlight on quilting.

Jared Bowen recommends the Peabody Essex Museum’s contemporary look at the Salem With Trials featuring work by fashion designer Alexander McQueen, and a retrospective of Cuban artist Mariano Rodríguez.

Jared Bowen explores Frida Kahlo’s legacy, as well as an exhibit that traces the cultural and historical impact of hair.

Plus, the ceramicist who’s upending the art form by melding it with graffiti.

"It’s complicated to weave a contemporary art culture into a blue-collar town," says director Jennifer Trainer.