Welcome Artscope reader, As we celebrate our 18th anniversary with this issue, we open it with stories on two artists celebrating their own milestones and serving as inspiration to us all. Frederick “Fritz” Kubitz, who at 95 still finds himself painting, is feted in “All About Boston” at the Guild of Boston Artists. In her preview, Lee Roscoe profiles his time as one of the world’s great architects — including his designing of the iconic TWA Flight Center at JFK International Airport — and how that eye allowed him to paint Boston’s iconic architecture just a little bit differently. Mira Cantor may have reached 80 years on Planet Earth, but she’s not slowing down. Elizabeth Michelman “Cornered” her to discuss the work in her “Dig” exhibition at SoWa Boston’s Kingston Gallery this March, while sharing an in-depth explanation of how her appreciation for geology, archaeology and dance … [Read more...] about WELCOME March/April 2024: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
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WELCOME January/February 2024: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
Welcome to Artscope’s first issue of 2024, In my formative years of 1964 and 1965, I benefited from my mom bringing me to the New York World’s Fair, with its motto of “Peace Through Understanding” backed up by exhibitions from countries around the world introducing visitors to their culture and people, be it Michelangelo’s “Pietà” in the Vatican pavilion, Thailand’s ornate roof replica of the Mondrop of Saraburi Buddhist shrine, and through its singing marionettes dressed in costumes and performing songs in their native languages, Walt Disney’s “It’s a Small World” in the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion helped showed us that it was, indeed, “A world of laughter, a world of tears …” Our goal as a publication has always been to introduce our readers to artists making work that touches our hearts and hopefully yours and — in many instances — introduce you to people from cultures different than yours, … [Read more...] about WELCOME January/February 2024: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
WELCOME November/December 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
Dear Artscope reader, It felt too familiar, too similar to December 14, 2012, when the events at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, unfolded as we were putting our first issue of 2013 to press. The October 25 shooting in Lewiston, Maine took place, for us, under similar circumstances, the Artscope staff pulling together this issue that includes a preview of the “Native Exploding Inevitable” exhibition that was scheduled to open a few nights later at the Bates College Museum of Art, an opening postponed when most of the surrounding area went into a safety lockdown. The long-planned exhibition was intended to be a celebration of Indigenous people and through modern artworks, a door to new discussion on recognizing their contributions, past, present and in the future, to the land on which we live. Lee Roscoe, author of “Wampanoag Art for the Ages – Traditional and … [Read more...] about WELCOME November/December 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
WELCOME September/October 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
Welcome to our 106th issue! Like many of you, we’ve spent the past few months catching up on long delayed projects and getting to see the artists, galleries and museums we’ve been away from for far too long. After hearing reports of strong sales in Boston’s SoWa District, especially during First Friday and Sundays during SoWa Open Market,when large crowds are in the neighborhood, it seemed like a good idea to start the fall previewing several of the exhibitions taking place there this September and October. Just as we arrive on the streets, Krystle Brown’s “Better Homes Than Gardens” exhibition which explores displacement, on both a global and local scale, opens for a September run at Kingston Gallery. Marjorie Kaye, who recently announced that she’s stepping down from her longtime position as director of Galatea Fine Art, profiles sculptor Christine Palamidessi and previews her … [Read more...] about WELCOME September/October 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
WELCOME July/August 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
Summer already? I was in the final stages of preparations before we started on the production of this July/August 2023 issue of Artscope Magazine when I received an email from Jessica Roscio, the director and curator at The Danforth at Framingham State University, alerting me that its 2023 Annual Juried Show had been fully hung earlier than expected and that I could see it that afternoon. I had already started to write about the show from its well-compiled digital catalog and had found myself questioning my ability to give everyone a fair shake from that standpoint alone. I’ve learned — and I suspect those selected to jury exhibitions from digital submissions have as well — that regardless of how good of a job that artists have done photographing and documenting their work and entries, there is always going to be a few that steal your heart or underwhelm you on the digital screen that … [Read more...] about WELCOME July/August 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
WELCOME May/June 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
Welcome to the 104th issue of Artscope Magazine. Now in our 18th year, we put this issue together knowing that it would be on display and available at Art Basel’s Collective Booth in Switzerland from June 15 through 18, representing not only ourselves as a publication at the international art fair, which features over 4000 artists from over 250 galleries from around the world, but all of the artists, galleries, museums and collectors covered in it. We first traveled to Basel in 2015. In reporting from that initial visit, Clara Rose Thornton wrote, “The tenuous process of creating art mirrors life’s path: projection, uncertainty, connection then disconnection, and navigating surprise. Thus, it makes sense to look to collections of contemporary art and individual pathways through the market as vibrant manifestations of a zeitgeist, the mime’s shadow we cannot see.” In recent months, … [Read more...] about WELCOME May/June 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW