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How the Bay State's fair and festival season moves from the coast to the valley to the Berkshires, and how to plan around it.

How the Bay State's fair and festival season moves from the coast to the valley to the Berkshires, and how to plan around it.

Shows, retrospectives, surveys and permanent collections are not the same thing. Here is how the terms work, in everyday language.

Clutter, light and habit leave fingerprints on finished work. A look at what a studio tells a visitor that a gallery wall never will.

More than 130 local artists fill downtown Hingham this Sunday — a case study in how small-town art walks work, and how to get the most from one.

The fair floor, the gallery back room and the museum shop each teach a new collector something different — and the order matters more than the destination.

The Green Line strings most of Boston's major museums together. A little sequencing turns a day of riding into a day of looking.

The fair's second Houston edition scales up to 98 galleries from 20 countries and territories, and the local contingent has grown with it.

One headline show, two smaller rooms, and a plan that keeps the walking manageable.

A granite knob in Franconia Notch carries a painter's name and one of the White Mountains' best reward-for-effort ratios.

Brownsburg's Festival of the Arts offers a working checklist for visitors and artists alike — what to see, what to ask, and how to plan for the weather.