by Nancy Nesvet MARCH 8, 2018, NEW YORK CITY -- Happy International Women’s Day! In celebration, I focus on women artists and those who make work about women. That was not a difficult perspective, as about 60 percent of the work at the 2018 Armory Show in New York features women artists or female subjects. I do not think that is a reflection of there being two women curators at the show, Gabriel Ritter of the Focus section, and Jen Mergel of Platform, showing large works and installations, but as women, they are aware of who is out there and the difficulties they may have faced in getting their work shown. At Platform, which shows work of single artists, South African artist Mary Sibande’s Cry Havoc, 2014, at Gallery YOMO’s booth shows female figures she has costumed in Victorian era dresses, negating the domesticity inflicted by the colonialist empire against her black … [Read more...] about INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY AT THE ARMORY SHOW
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The Armory Show New York
by Nancy Nesvet (With all East Coast planes and buses cancelled, and only one train coming up from the south through Washington, D.C., still going to New York, Nancy Nesvet, Artscope’s national correspondent, made it to the New York Armory Show. She files the first of her reports here). MARCH 7, 2018, NEW YORK CITY -- It was totally worth slogging through the slush and being pelted by falling unnamed precipitation to make it to the New York’s Armory Show. Strangely (or maybe not), a lot of the work in the Pier 94 pavilion, on the Hudson River, featured water; steamy water, as in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s amazing installation, where I stared into a pool of steamy water, which then recorded my face, which was then projected onto a grid of six faces, all awash in white steam. Robert Pan’s droplets of blue water, Untitled, 2016-17, of resin and mixed media, where he applied … [Read more...] about The Armory Show New York
THEATER PREVIEW: BOSTON OPERA COLLABORATIVE PRESENTS “AS ONE” AT PICKMAN HALL
By James Foritano Cambridge, MA — I’m occupying the cat-bird seat in the intimate recital space of Cambridge’s Longy School of Music at Bard College at a pre-performance interview with cast members of a new operetta, “As One,” which will be presented January 25-28 by the Boston Opera Collaborative at Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall. The two male vocalists sitting at our conference table are young, intense, and talented. They are bursting with information about what it’s like to represent with their resonant baritones the existential struggles of a young man, a boy really, transitioning to a mature woman. I’m trying to focus as much as possible on the sense of what they’re saying, but the sensuousness of their trained voices short circuits, repeatedly, my hard- headed note taking. I’m rescued, anchored by an anecdote related to me by vocal coach Jean Anderson Collier, sitting to my … [Read more...] about THEATER PREVIEW: BOSTON OPERA COLLABORATIVE PRESENTS “AS ONE” AT PICKMAN HALL
CORNERED: SMFA AT TUFTS DEAN NANCY BAUER
INTERVIEW DEAN NANCY BAUER, SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS AT TUFTS by Laura Shabott I walk into the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts on the day of its alumni reception for the annual SMFA Art Sale fundraiser. The energy in the school is palpable; this is one of the busiest days of the year for the 147-year-old institution. I am greeted warmly by Clare Saunders, assistant to the dean. There are racks and walls filled with art as we climb the stairs to the administrative offices. As an alumna of the SMFA (diploma 1995), I can sense the change in the very fiber of the school; it is welcoming and cared for, the result of a merger with Tufts University in 2016 with Dr. Nancy Bauer as dean. That she took the time for me on this particular day was a testament to her dedication to artists. Bauer glows from accomplishing more than most: dean, academic dean, Ph.D. in … [Read more...] about CORNERED: SMFA AT TUFTS DEAN NANCY BAUER
WELCOME FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
Brian Goslow, Managing Editor bgoslow@artscopemagazine.com Welcome to our first issue of 2018. We start the new year with an issue filled with artwork and exhibitions covering many of the timely issues on our readers’ minds through reviews of shows that were hanging as we went to press; we couldn’t have done it without the help of curators, gallery directors and artists who shared their work with our writers so we could preview as-yet-unopened shows. We address the environment and global warming through reviews of “We Might Climb a Tree, at Least,” a group exhibition celebrating the writings of Henry David Thoreau at Maine Museum of Photographic Arts (by Taryn Plumb); “James Chisholm: Reflections: Ocean Waves, Inland Streams” at Endicott College (by James Foritano); and the artistry of Clifford W. Ashley in “Thou Shalt Knot” at New Bedford Whaling Museum by Don Wilkinson, which … [Read more...] about WELCOME FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
NANCY NESVET’S ART WORLD PREDICTIONS FOR 2018
As we move into the new year, in advance of the arrival of Artscope’s January/February 2018 issue, which will include two features on the highlights of Art Basel Miami 2017 and Art Week Miami, national correspondent Nancy Nesvet shares these Ins and Outs in the Art World trends: 2017: Women’s March 2018: Women’s Art 2017: Sex 2018: #MeToo 2017: Pepper Spray in Purse 2018: Narcan in Purse 2017: Foma 2018: Boycotts 2017: Military Drones 2018: Drone Art Installations 2017: Refugees 2018: Hurricanes 2017: Flying Dirigibles 2018: Habitable Balloons 2017: Diamond Dust 2018: Gold 2017: Political Text 2018: Apolitical Text 2017: Graffiti 2018: Posters 2017: Banksy in Wynwood 2018: Banksy in London 2017: Manga Superheroes 2018: Emojis 2017: Dour Colors 2018: Bright Colors 2017: Amex Black 2018: Bitcoin 2017: Less Sales 2018: More … [Read more...] about NANCY NESVET’S ART WORLD PREDICTIONS FOR 2018