artscope magazine: July/August 2008 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Letters to the Editor Past, Present, Future: ANISH KAPOOR ANDREW SAFTEL: How do we get there? WEDDED BLISS: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony A POLITIC, Gallery XIV El Greco To Velázquez: Art during the reign of Philip III Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008 Collector's Choice: Late 19th Century Vibrations OFF THE WALL: 2008 Annual members’ Juried exhibition Featured Artist Laurence Young An Artful Touch: An Artful Touch Gallery Everday Monuments: the Photographs of Jerome Liebling: SAM FEINSTEIN (1915-2003): A retrospective DORA ATWATER MILLIKIN: Geometry of Place Nancy Craig: New Paintings and Works on Paper, and Romolo Del Deo: New Sculpture and Bronze Furniture ALEX KATZ AND FRIENDS / THE GLEANERS BLACK WOMANHOOD: Images, Icons, And Ideologies of the African Body 215 College Street Artists' Cooperative Gallery Kevin Gilmore: Recent Paintings Paintings: Stephen Courbois, Sculpture: Pat Musick Penelope Jencks: Sculpture in Bronze, Terracotta and Plaster Theater: Counter Productions Theater: Ko FEST Music: Marblehead Summer Jazz Concerts and Festival of Arts Dance: Bates Summer Dance Festival Musings: FUNG WAH ADVENTURE Capsule Previews: May/June 2008

Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Brian Goslow, managing editor (bgoslow@artscopemagazine.com) Welcome Statement, July/August 2008 As we started to compile this summer trip themed issue of artscope, writer James Foritano mentioned that he had just gone down to New York City via the notorious Fung Wah Bus. Along with whatever quirky tales he might have from the ride, it seemed he could give us the perfect diary of an art lover on a budget’s dream weekend. Thankfully, as he’s been known to do, James given us a humor filled tale of his Big Apple experiences. Thankfully, as he’s been known to do, James given us a humor filled tale of his Big Apple experiences. But he really hits a home run with what I feel is one of his finest pieces yet, a review of the Annual Juried Members Show at the Danforth Museum of Art. Few writers can capture not only the show on view, but also the show getting to that view, as he does. “When I arrived in Framingham it was drizzling cold, but with such a quantity of quality, I felt like I was stepping onto a warm beach shelving towards lapping blue waters,” he writes. “I kept my pen and notebook dry, but barely.” Following in the travel theme, I had the chance to preview “Luisa rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008,” which will spend the summer at the Gardner Museum in Boston. I found the idea of taking Isabella Stewart Gardner’s journals and updating them for the 21st century was a brilliant way to introduce both Gardner and her museum to a new audience. I also had the opportunity to preview the “a politic” exhibition that will be at Gallery XIV in Boston’s South End. The show was juried by three first generation Americans: gallery director William Kerr, who is half-Portuguese and half-Scottish; co-curator Juliette Pelletier of Reflect-arts, Inc., who is half-French Canadian and half Italian, and artscope publisher Kaveh Mojtabai, a Persian-American. “There’s a resonance between us that’s passionately American with a world influence,” Kerr said during my visit. Kaveh’s participation is another example of how artscope is getting involved with the community. Another is our sponsoring of the “Arts Affair on the Boardwalk” on August 2 and 3 in Quincy, Massachusetts, where our office is based. More details can be found in this issue’s Capsule Previews. We couldn’t fit everything we wanted into this issue, including the Concord (MA) Art Association’s “order Insecta” exhibition, the 11th Annual Invitational outdoor Sculpture Exhibit at the Millbrook Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Concord (NH), the Monadnock Music Festival and “Jimmy Tingle for President” at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, which will be hosting the “Nature and Balance” exhibition that’s to be reviewed in our September/October issue. Please seek out these shows in your journeys this summer. Our desire to cover as many exhibits and events as possible led to the artscope email blast!, which Sarah E. Fagan compiles on a twice-monthly basis. It has built up its own devoted readership, and that readership keeps growing. Subscribe (for free) at emailblast@artscopemagazine.com. We’d like to thank our judges of this issue’s centerfold contest: Catherine Green of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, Sara Zela of Studio Potter Magazine, and artscope writer Elena Sarni. For our November/December 2008 issue, we’re looking for submissions in the photographic media. For more details see the back of this issue or write centerfold@artscopemagazine.com. So dig into the pages ahead and if they encourage you to drop in on Berta Walker in Provincetown, Anni MacKay at the BigTown Gallery in Vermont, the redmond Bennett Gallery in New Hampshire, the Farnsworth Art Museum and Center for Maine Contemporary Art, the Yale Museum of Art or the galleries of Newport, Rhode Island, please tell them artscope sent you. Keep your issues dry, readers, but get those feet wet. Read the entire article in our magazine pages...