Welcome to our 16th Anniversary Issue! We have reached this milestone thanks to the longtime support of our readers and advertisers and the devotion of a writing staff dedicated to promoting the artists, art organizations, galleries and museums of New England and others who inspired them from throughout the world. Since the pandemic caused a landslide of exhibition and venue closings in March 2020, we’ve remained committed to providing that support, adjusting as they’ve adjusted, each of us searching for the best way to stay in touch with our audience, adapting to the latest safety guidelines and judging from the phone calls, letters and conversations we’ve had, you feel that we’ve delivered fresh and timely issues filled with stories on a period we’ll not soon forget. Traditionally, our March/April anniversary issue has spotlighted artists our writers had wanted to write about, … [Read more...] about WELCOME March/April 2022: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
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WELCOME January/February 2022: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
As we were going to press with this issue, a few days prior to Christmas, all of the exhibitions that are reviewed and previewed were scheduled to run as planned. If you plan on seeing any of these shows, as part of your preparations, please check with each venue’s website prior to leaving and consider contacting them on the day of your trip to confirm they’re open or if there are any specific arrangements you need to make (especially pre-ticketing). Keeping in mind that these artists, curators, gallery owners and museums have spent months, and in some cases, years planning these exhibitions, in a worst-case scenario of shows being postponed or cancelled, please check out their websites to learn more about their work and offerings. I received a strong education in how intense the juror process can be last fall after Bromfield Gallery manager Gary Duehr invited me to jury its SOLO 2020 … [Read more...] about WELCOME January/February 2022: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
Welcome November/December 2021: From Brian Goslow
As 2021 comes to a close, we all take a collective sigh while still not sure what the future holds. While not containing some of the “look back” features weekly and monthly publications utilize to capsulize a year, I think you’ll find this issue pulls together a collection of reviews and previews for exhibitions whose artists have captured their personal experiences since the first shutdown of March 2020 in their artwork, museums and galleries catching up on shows that had been delayed, and artists who couldn’t wait to finally share it with audiences in-person. Our issue opens with Marta Pauer-Tursi previewing “The Dysfunction of Social Practice” which opens on November 20 at Kimball Jenkins in Concord, New Hampshire. For her, the exhibition, curated by Karina Kelley and Bill Stelling of Kelley Stelling Contemporary, touched off how our forced stay-at-home lifestyle of the past two … [Read more...] about Welcome November/December 2021: From Brian Goslow
WELCOME September/October 2021: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
Welcome to our September/October 2021 issue, one planned in a time of optimism in which long- delayed exhibitions finally opened or neared theiropening and annual fall events and their related exhibitions that had to be canceled in 2020 get closer to taking place — even as art organizations and museums’ crucial fundraising events are being postponed — in many instances, for the second year in a row. Safety is foremost on everyone’s minds. As we were going to press, venues were once again announcing masks were required for entry, whether visitors had been vaccinated or not. Most artists and writers with whom we’ve been in contact have been extra cautious over the past year and a half and are overly careful in terms of going out to openings or large gatherings. We put together this issue with the hope you’ll be able to get out and see some of the artwork and exhibitions we’ve … [Read more...] about WELCOME September/October 2021: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW