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

Everday Monuments: the Photographs of Jerome Liebling: Taryn Plumb Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel Street New Haven, Connecticut;/br> Through September 7 THE PLASTIC HEAD - BALD AND IMPECCABLY DOMED, SHOULDERS BARE AND EYES SMOLDERING - FILLS UP THE FRAME. THE CHEEKBONES ARE PERFECT, AND THE LIPS, THE NOSE; THE SKIN SEEMS TO GLISTEN. IT – SHE, RATHER – IS BEAUTIFUL. Or at least, she once was. Marring such magnificence now is her left eye, which is just about gone; the bridge of her perfectly proportioned nose looks like it’ll be next. In those areas, the mannequin’s plastic skin is flaked and fragmented, revealing large patches of what looks like white Styrofoam. There are gaping white chasms where a hazel eye and painted strip of an eyebrow used to be. Cracks, divots and smaller holes scatter away from those like debris. Still, this faded beauty’s ravaged face is entrancing. Therein lies the raw theme of photographer Jerome Liebling’s work: Often, flaws and blemishes provide more fascination than impeccable beauty. Still, this faded beauty’s ravaged face is entrancing. Therein lies the raw theme of photographer Jerome Liebling’s work: Often, flaws and blemishes provide more fascination than impeccable beauty. “His photographic vision finds importance and meaning in seemingly mundane aspects of life,” noted Pamela Franks, deputy director for collections and education at Yale University, which is presenting a medley of Liebling’s pictures. “He has always been committed to photographing real, everyday people doing everyday things.” In a career beginning in the 1940s and spanning six decades – the photographer and documentary filmmaker still shoots today - Liebling has had ample time to expand and contract this idea. The octogenarian, who resides in Amherst, Massachusetts, has explored it in portraits, landscapes, textured close-ups of inanimate objects and artifacts; in black and whites, Read the entire article in our magazine pages...