artscope magazine: May/June 2008 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Metal Scultpture By Skunk Senior Stars: artscope writer James Foritano survives "an embarrassment of riches" Robert C. Jackson: Stories Two Chinas: Chen Quilin and Yun-Fei Ji Corporate Art Partnerships: The Providence Art Club and Garden in the Woods Featured Artist: Malcolm Montague Davis Featured artist: Michael Ulman Wally Gilbert: Leeks and Chains New England Impressions II: Exploring the Woodcut Brooklyn – Boston: Inside Out: Christopher Chippendale and Jeffrey Fichera The Keys to Katahdin: Oil Paintings by John Cascio and watercolor works by Don Sullivan Andy Warhol, Early Work: Selections from the Collection of Richard F. Holmes Edna Boies Hopkins: Strong in Character, Colorful in Expression George Hirose: Blue Nights Johniene Papandreas: Fixation Elusive Truths: Envisioning Information for a Data-Deluged World A Work in Progress: Fifty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum Mildred Johnson and Others Celebrating New Hampshire Artists, Currier Museum of Art Allison Paschke, 5 Traverse Gallery Styrofoam, RISD Harmony in the Age of Noise Celluloid Slant: Must Read After My Death Capsule Previews: May/June 2008

Harmony in the Age of Noise Hope Stockman Tisch Library Building Rooftop 35 Professors Row;/br> Medford, Massachusetts Through August 10 We live in a deaf age, according to sonic thinker and artist Bruce Odland. Sure, we tune into the intentional sounds of ringing cell phones or music playing in our earphones, but we’re deaf to the unintentional sounds that fill the places we pass through each day. Step onto a city street and you’re bombarded by visual stimuli, you’re catapulted from one sign, screen or billboard to the next. The breakneck speed of the visual world tends to overwhelm its auditory elements. Traffic, airplanes passing overhead, cafeteria chatter, whirring heating systems… these sounds form a distant cacophony we block out of our consciousness. Odland, one of the masterminds of this interactive sonic installation, believes the act of tuning out not only expends energy but has ruptured our sensory relationship to place. “Harmony in the Age of Noise” challenges you to open your ears and reconnect to the sounds that define the architecture daily life. Over 100 individuals from the Tufts community and beyond have come together under the vision of four artists to create a gazebo that launches you in auditory orbit. The interdisciplinary project is being led by instillation artist Odland, who composed an original carillon piece for the project’s April 23 opening, anthropology professor David Guss, interactive designer Michael Luck Schneider and New York City-based sculptor Michael McNamara, who builds mathematically-inspired structures with sustainable materials. The project takes the shape of a gazebo with a parabolic roof that amplifies everyday sounds emanating from speakers planted under the floorboards of the gazebo’s deck. Read the entire article in our magazine pages...