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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

ANDREW SAFTEL: How do we get there?
Brian Goslow

Lanoue Fine Art
125 Newbury Street
Boston

July 12 through August 10

I once fell In love wIth a painting of a woman by Georges Seurat, which after a long fruitless search for a print of the work, I learned was a detail From his iconic “A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jette.” You’ll get the same effect looking at these printmaking, painting and found art works by Andrew Saftel.

Each piece deserves its own review. “Little Rain,” which holds a small strand of green painted rope that Saftel collected on Cape Cod, could easily be three separate paintings. It’s topped by a number of ships and boats and simple but well-placed blotches of white, tan and blue to portray ripples in the water, and accompanied by the words, “pleasant, with some thunder but little rain,” which he found in an old shipping log.

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