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November/December 2024
TSITOGHDZYAN’S FILTERED IDENTITY: WATERTOWN’S ARMENIAN MUSEUM WIDENS OUR VIEW
Can you believe what you see, especially when it comes to yourself? In a digital world saturated with artificially generated imagery and where the polished unreality of social media is paramount, life becomes an interminable sequence of double takes. Our perspectives of ourselves are as manicured as our presentations to others, leading to a confusion of identity as the public overruns the private. The Armenian Museum of America addresses this contradictory reality with “Filtered Identity: The Art of Tigran Tsitoghdzyan.” Though Tsitoghdzyan’s works aren’t digital creations, one could be forgiven for thinking so. What at first appears to be a show of large-scale photographs is in actuality a collection of hyper-realistic paintings. In his 13-piece exhibition, Tsitoghdzyan asks us “to confront the tension between who we are and how we are seen.” Divided into two sections, “Mirror” … [Read more...] about TSITOGHDZYAN’S FILTERED IDENTITY: WATERTOWN’S ARMENIAN MUSEUM WIDENS OUR VIEW
A GOLDEN EVENT IN PARIS: AT THE GRAND PALAIS, ART BASEL WAS SPLENDID
I’ve arrived at the Grand Palais in Paris — one of the most beautiful buildings in the world — to attend Art Basel Paris. This is the first time I’ve ever attended such a large art fair. I am a watercolorist based in Boston, and I’ve never gone to any of the Basels. I happened to be in France because I just completed a two-week (very intensive) art residency in a tiny village at La Porte Peinte in Noyers-sur- Serein. After getting used to being in a village of just over 600 inhabitants, only one boulangerie, medieval structures and single-lane cobblestone streets, Paris hit me like a bomb. It is alive with people, filled with sunshine and cov- ered in gold everywhere you look. When I first walked into the Grand Palais, I immediately noticed how much the art inside the building spoke to the city outside its doors. There was gold everywhere in the booths. I was stopped in my tracks by … [Read more...] about A GOLDEN EVENT IN PARIS: AT THE GRAND PALAIS, ART BASEL WAS SPLENDID
Welcome November/December 2024: From Brian Goslow
Whether you’ve been a longtime Artscope reader or just learned of us in the past few months, either through a shared Instagram or Facebook post or picked us up in the Magazines sector at Art Basel, welcome to our final issue of 2024. When Artscope publisher Kaveh Mojtabai, attending a recent opening reception for a Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Women Artists exhibition, learned that Lisa Goren, a Boston-based watercolorist whose works focus on her travels to the polar regions and animals in “human” spaces, was going to be in France for a residency at La Porte Peinte in Burgundy that was ending just as Art Basel Paris was opening, he offered her the chance to cover the international art fair for this issue. In addition to her artmaking, she’s written for the New York Times, Washington Post and The Boston Globe, and we’re pleased to have her sharing her experience … [Read more...] about Welcome November/December 2024: From Brian Goslow