Welcome to our 122nd issue of Artscope Magazine. Over time, I’ve learned the value of photographs in telling history otherwise not available and as such, I’ve found myself protesting with well-meaning fans of performers and roadside landmarks on social media who enhance images they find or take with AI, and in the process, destroy the historical document. Photographs and paintings might be our only way to learn of people, places and events of the past. A few weeks ago, after seeing images of war from the Middle East, I found myself stunned by their similarity with Frederick C. Yohn’s 1893 painting, “Siege of Yorktown,” that’s one of the highlighted works in “The American Revolution: A Story of the War in 28 Paintings” exhibition on view through July 4 at Historic Beverly’s Cabot House. It was a painful reminder that for all the societal and medical advances we’ve seen in our lifetime, … [Read more...] about Welcome
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Dear Artscope reader, Back in early 2006, I traveled to the Artscope office in Quincy, Massachusetts with Leon Nigrosh, its fine arts contributing editor, with whom I had worked at several publications in Worcester, to discuss ideas on how to position the magazine for long-term growth and success with Publisher Kaveh Mojtabai. The idea that two decades later we would still be brainstorming issue by issue was the furthest thing from any of our minds that evening. But thankfully, here we are, still sharing artistic journeys and discoveries together. “Twenty years ago, Artscope launched and filled a gap in the New England arts scene,” Mojtabai said. “Our goal was to do our best to gain the trust of our readers, advertisers and the art community with determination, hard work and integrity. It is the support of our editors, graphic designers, readers and not the least our dedicated writers, … [Read more...] about Welcome
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2026, anyone? At the start of October, Elizabeth Michelman proposed reviewing the “Unspoken Resilience: Healing from the Lewiston Shooting Two Years In: Work by Artists of the Maine & National Deaf communities and Photographs by Michael Kolster” exhibition at the University of New England Art Gallery in Portland, Maine. It was a show that she noted, “has stuck in my mind for the feat of representing three different takes on the 2023 massacre of 18 people, including the shooter, in Lewiston, Maine, which happened three months after I'd moved to southern Maine.” Her story arrived shortly after the shooting of 11 Brown University students, two of whom died, and the killing of an MIT professor, and before the discovery of the shooter, dead by apparent suicide. Art is something that we depend on to help us through the passing of loved ones. Marta Pauer-Tursi visited Burlington City … [Read more...] about Welcome
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“We’ll see.” That’s how several of the artists featured in this issue of Artscope Magazine responded to the question of what’s next in their careers and work projects. It’s a reflection of how life has been, not only around the arts community, but our country and world, a time of uncertainty, aware of the challenges that lay ahead. In putting together this issue, I looked for exhibitions in which artists put their feelings into their work, not only how this helped them deal with these uncertain times, but if it resulted in any art that we’ll return to the rest of our lives. The seeming need for greater community and social interaction has resulted in a few developments in how galleries present their work. In reviewing the Art League of Rhode Island’s “Truth Unveiled: Art as Reality, Illusion, and Insight” exhibition in Pawtucket, Suzanne Volmer points out that the organization was … [Read more...] about Welcome
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Welcome to our September/October 2025 issue, one that finds many of us trying to avoid isolation during growingly troubling times where the art and cultural togetherness we’ve worked to nourish and support seems challenged more than at any other time in our lives. We’ve always found art to be one of our major common denominators and you can’t put a price on the value of interaction at openings or browsing through an exhibition. This time of year is especially supportive of these activities, with seasonal art fairs and open studio weekends providing plenty of opportunities to get out and explore your art wanderlust. The SoWa District in Boston’s South End is one of those places, with its monthly First Friday events, Sunday SoWa Open Air Farmers and Artist Market — during which many of the adjoining galleries and artist studios are open — and the South End Open Studios on the weekend of … [Read more...] about WELCOME
Welcome July/August 2025
Welcome to our summer 2025 issue, In reviewing the images of artworks our writers submitted to accompany their stories, I realized that this issue would be, unintentionally, abstract and laid back, cool and mostly non-confrontational, something I think most, if not all of us, need at this time. We’re all looking for inspiration; look no further than our opening “Cornered” feature spotlighting 99-year-old Carmen Cicero, who talked with Lee Roscoe about his lengthy career and his current shows at the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown and the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Roscoe also spoke with Joe Diggs, recently named the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s Artist of the Year, interviewing him about his abstract paintings of the magical landscapes and hidden places in nearby Cape Cod towns and his own backyard in Osterville, where his family has resided for several decades I’m always on the … [Read more...] about Welcome July/August 2025






