Mills Gallery

South End & Chinatown


Besides several performance spaces, the main venue for visual arts at the Boston Center for the Arts is the Mills Gallery, which hosts cutting-edge art exhibits and artist and curator talks. Exhibits feature established and emerging artists from Boston and around the country, who put on shows appropriate for this trendsetting neighborhood.

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