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WELCOME September/October 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW

// September/October 2023, Welcome

by 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

// July/August 2023, Welcome

by 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

// May/June 2023, Welcome

by 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

WELCOME March/April 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW

// March/April 2023, Uncategorized, Welcome

by Brian Goslow

Dear Artscope reader, When I took the position of managing editor back in 2006, I couldn’t have imagined we would still be having these bi-monthly conversations and celebrating the artists of the New England region 17 years later. But thankfully, here we are, continuing to be inspired by the efforts and creativity of our arts community. When he first started the magazine, publisher Kaveh Mojtabai had envisioned Artscope carrying the dialogue in the arts between artists, patrons and the public through multiple platforms, and that he had a 10-year vision to develop this. “My original goal was to incorporate art into our everyday lives to breathe creativity back into our routines and work. To fill the void in our cultural community, to raise the bar in timely and egalitarian arts journalism reporting, to support artists, and ultimately to bring the arts into our daily working lives, as … [Read more...] about WELCOME March/April 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW

WELCOME January/February 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW

// Artscope Issues, January/February 2023, Welcome

by Brian Goslow

Welcome to our first issue of 2023! Our devoted Artscope Magazine staff have worked overtime throughout the holiday season to ensure we provided you with a strong selection of exhibitions for viewing over the next two months and artists to put on your must-investigate and must-see lists over the year ahead. We start with the Bates College Museum of Art that has two great exhibitions — “And So Did Pleasure Take the Hand of Sorrow and They Wandered Through the Land of Joy,” in which eight contemporary artists take the lead of Marsden Hartley and “Expressions of Compassion: Selections from the Barbara Morris Goodbody Photography Collection,” a show filling half the museum with photographs that, Elizabeth Michelman writes, was worth the trip up north to Lewiston, Maine from the Boston area. Rachel Portesi’s “Hair Portraits” have been making their way around New England — most recently at … [Read more...] about WELCOME January/February 2023: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW

WELCOME November/December 2022: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW

// Artscope Issues, November/December 2022, Welcome

by Brian Goslow

Dear Artscope reader, As we near the end of 2022, I look back at how we slowly regained our ability to get out and view art together – still carefully – and how we seem to have learned how much we appreciate what each of us does to contribute to the art community and life in general. We also learned how important it was to not be silent on issues important to us and how much we count on artists to interpret how we’re feeling about them through their work. In our final issue of the year, Marjorie Kaye shares her highlights of 2022, spotlighting shows and artists that addressed “Gender awareness, racial harmony, womens’ right to control their own choices, the ongoing and building threat to the environment” noting how in their creative consciousness, “there is the ability to draw upon universal truths.” She also writes about the “warmth and sustenance” of the “Mary Ann Unger: To Shape a … [Read more...] about WELCOME November/December 2022: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW