March/April 2014
In This Issue
Welcome
As we were putting together this issue, which celebrates our 8th Anniversary, the value of an art degree became a hotly discussed topic after President Obama, addressing a crowd at […]
Renewal
MOTHER BROOK ARTS FLIRTS WITH A NEW DIRECTION Planted squarely on one of the oft-neglected borders between suburban and urban Boston, the former mill village of East Dedham has long […]
Welcome
As we were putting together this issue, which celebrates our 8th Anniversary, the value of an art degree became a hotly discussed topic after President Obama, addressing a crowd at […]
March/April 2014 8th anniversary issue
Excerpts Welcome |Renewal New Direction | Global Encounters In Early America | You Are Here | Pedal To The Metal | Culture Club | Catenaria | A Shared Vision |Uncovered […]
Renewal New Direction
Mother Brook Arts Flirts With A New Direction by Meredith Cutler Planted squarely on one of the oft-neglected borders between suburban and urban Boston, the former mill village of East […]
Global Encounters In Early America
Holy Cross Honors Our Country’s Rich History by Brian Goslow For its latest exhibition, the College of the Holy Cross’ Cantor Gallery utilizes the collections of four major New England […]
You Are Here
An Enigmatic Body of Work by Elizabeth Michelman In addition to its well-publicized recent acquisitions a stupendous Veronese Venus and the medieval arsenal of the Higgins Armory Museum the […]
Pedal To The Metal
THE ATTLEBORO ARTS MUSEUM ELEVATES THE KID-SIZED CAR TO ART STATUS by Craig Fitzgerald There’s fine art, and then there’s the art of mechanical things. Sir William Lyons’ Jaguar E-Type […]
Culture Club
CONTEMPORARY KOREAN ARTISTS MAKE A CONNECTION by Elizabeth Michelman Carol Rabe, curator at Pine Manor’s Hess Gallery, has brought together five Korean-born women artists working around Boston in different media: […]
Catenaria
DOUG BOSCH THROWS US A CURVE by James Foritano Catenaries have been around long before Webster’s Third New International Dictionary defined them as “The curve formed by a perfectly flexible […]
A Shared Vision
FRIENDS FIND COMMON GROUND by Linda Chestney Sometimes in life it’s difficult to discern where reality ends and fiction begins. That’s sometimes true in the art world, too. “A Shared […]
Uncovered Memories
MARGARET KRISTENSEN’S PUBLIC EXPERIMENT by Marguerite Serkin Margaret Kristensen knows the 1950s well. Although she is in her twenties, Kristensen’s eclectic collection of prints, created from negatives dating from the […]
Surveillance Society
IS THE TERM “PRIVATE CITIZEN” OBSOLETE? by Alexandra Tursi In every introductory art history class, students learn about “the gaze,” that is, who is watching who and when, how and […]
Tanja Softic
MIGRANT UNIVERSE by James Foritano Bosnian-born artist Tanja Softic inscribes her 10 large works on paper with the delicacy of a miniaturist and the scope of a cosmologist. Grace and […]
Seeing Double
CUTRONA’S DICHOTOMIES MAKE A STATEMENT by Elizabeth Micheiman In his mind, as in his art, Richard Cutrona seems to be in two places at once and sometimes more. Since getting […]
We The People
CHAWKY FRENN PAINTS IT AS HE SEES IT by Cole Tracy Chawky Frenn is a great activist in many realms. He is dedicated to teaching new artists at George Mason […]
Outskirts
JULIE S. GRAHAM’S PAINTED CONSTRUCTIONS by Franklin W. Liu All categories of art and architecture have a common bond of union as if connected by blood relationship; this familial dialogue […]
Cameraless Images
PAMELA ELLIS HAWKES CASTS PALE SHADOWS by J. Fatima Martins There is something old and something new, something real and something ethereal, something true and something false about the simply […]
More Than Just A Library
ABBIE READ PAYS HOMAGE TO THE WRITTEN WORD by Taryn Plumb Abbie Read grew up in a literary household, surrounded by books of all kinds (and yes, her last name […]
Sophisticated Perspectives
QUINTíN RIVERA TORO’S LAYERS OF MEANING by Suzanne Volmer Whether creating art of intimate scale or exploring monumentality, Quintín Rivera Toro can and does ply extremes for the meaning within. […]
Memories
MONIQUE SAKELLARIOS by Linda Chestney Tuscany. St. Lucia. Compiègne. The Czech Republic. Nice. Jamaica. Sounds like an adventure travelogue, doesn’t it? Instead of “Memories,” perhaps Monique Sakellarios’ current show at […]
Arlene Shecthet
EVERYTHING OLD BECOMES NEW AGAIN by Suzanne Volmer Exploring the conceit of preciousness attached to Meissen branding, Arlene Shechet’s sculptures and the installation format she designed meet the antiques and […]
Capsule Previews
It’s been gratifying to see a number of new galleries opening up in the New England region in recent months. As we went to press, Ellen Wineberg and Cathleen Daley […]
Getting Schooled
BIDDEFORD WELCOMES THE HEARTWOOD COLLEGE OF ART by Jamie Thompson The Pepperell Mill Campus in Biddeford, Maine was already home to several artists’ studios and galleries — now, it has […]
Artlifting
ARTLIFTING PROVIDES BOSTON-AREA HOMELESS AND DISABLED ARTISTS A MUCH-NEEDED OUTLET FOR SELLING THEIR WORK by Brian Goslow Who knew we’d be art dealers?” That’s what ArtLifting co-founders (and brother and […]
Keeping up With The Actor’s Shakespeare Project
A Merry Band by James Foritano Finally, almost at the end of its 10th season, I was catching up with Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Guided both by our eccentric GPS and […]
New London: A Forum by the Sea
by Kristin Nord Downtown New London is easing into this late-winter’s morning, with passengers arriving and departing from the H.H. Richardson-designed Union Station and locals bursting through the front door […]
