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

Dance: Bates Summer Dance Festival Greg Morell Bates College 163 Wood Street Lewiston, Maine July 15 through August 9 OVER 300 DANCERS FROM DIVERSE POINTS AROUND THE GLOBE WILL CONVENE IN LEWISTON FOR THE 26TH SEASON OF THE BATES SUMMER DANCE FESTIVAL. DURING THE MONTHS OF JULY AND AUGUST, THE BATES COLLEGE DANCE FESTIVAL TRANSFORMS THE MAINE CAMPUS INTO AN EPICENTER OF INSTRUCTIONAL DANCE, PERFORMANCE AND SPECIAL EVENTS. Located two and a half hours north of Boston, the Bates Dance Festival affords opportunities for the professional and pre-professional dancer to refine their technique, explore new concepts and liberally experiment. It offers audiences the chance to enjoy the work of emerging dance companies and to witness new works in the making. Contemporary dance and dance theater provide great latitude for imaginative expression. A medium of artistic fusion that welcomes innovation with ever expanding parameters, dance theater is fertile ground for novelty and creative variation. The modern dance world feeds on new theatrical technologies, and artistic directors and choreographers are in the forefront of radical departures from tradition. Last season, Bates audiences were treated to an out-of-doors environmental extravaganza that featured over 100 dancers. As audiences moved about the campus they were entranced by simultaneous movement ensembles tethered to trees, cavorting in thigh deep waters, dancing behind the windows of nearby edifices and even dancing on floating stages powered by oarsmen over the campus pond. Read the entire article in our magazine pages...