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

Luisa Rabbia: Travels with Isabella, Travel Scrapbooks 1883/2008 Brian Goslow Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 280 The Fenway Boston Through September 28 “IT’S VERY BEAUTIFUL. IT’S VERY HAUNTING. IT’S VERY MOVING.” GARDNER MUSEUM CURATOR PIERANNA CAVALACHINI IS TALKING ABOUT THE END RESULT OF LUISA RABBIA’S YEAR-LONG ARTISTIC JOURNEY TO COMBINE IMAGES AND ARTIFACTS FROM ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER’S SCRAPBOOK FROM AN 1883 VISIT TO CHINA WITH HER OWN DRAWINGS INTO THIS 25-MINUTE VIDEO. “IT TAKES YOU THROUGH TIME AND SPACE, MERGING HER STORY WITH ISABELLA’S,” CAVALACHINI SAID. Rabbia became interested in Isabella during a 2007 artist-in-residence stay at the museum. “What was particularly interesting for me was to see all the artworks and objects mixed together, without any hierarchy, which made me think that each one of them was dear to her for a specific reason,” she said. “I am fascinated by this extension of self through objects we choose or make, because it tells us something about the way we are/were in relation to the time we live in.” Rabbia became interested in Isabella during a 2007 artist-in-residence stay at the museum. “What was particularly interesting for me was to see all the artworks and objects mixed together, without any hierarchy, which made me think that each one of them was dear to her for a specific reason,” she said. “I am fascinated by this extension of self through objects we choose or make, because it tells us something about the way we are/were in relation to the time we live in.” Gardner’s scrapbooks, which will be on view at the museum next spring, provided an extraordinary view into Isabella’s world. Read the entire article in our magazine pages...