Marylin Arsem at the MFA by Elizabeth Michelman Boston, Mass. - Tuesday, December 8. I’m attending Day 29 in a series of 100 unique perfor- mances at the MFA this fall and winter by Boston’s leader in performance art, Marilyn Arsem. Arsem has not yet shown up, but I can already hear her disem- bodied voice musing over the previous day’s performance. The wall text before me explains that each day’s performance provides the inspiration for the next. 10:30 a.m. I enter the all-white Towles Gallery, no larger than a college classroom. A paper calendar on the wall reads “Day 29.” I take a seat on a bench along the wall. The artist, wearing a black sweater-dress with black leggings, black socks and black slip-ons, is already at work. A square wooden table, flanked by two wooden chairs and a black-and- chrome floor lamp, occupies the center of the room. Black coats and … [Read more...] about The Clock Is Ticking
Issue Articles
IN CELEBRATION OF THE PENCIL
Leaving a Mark at D'Amour by Marguerite Serkin Springfield, Mass. - Graphite occurs naturally in many forms, and its appli- cation for modern inscription has a history dating back to sheep marking in 16th-century England. Formerly referred to as “Plumbago,” graphite was used as a paint base in Neolithic times by the Marita culture of the Danube to decorate ceramic pottery. Versatile, easily manipulated, and widely found in nature, graphite serves as an accessible and functionally effective tool in both art and science. It is used in nuclear technology, batteries and brake linings. And, of course, in pencils. “Leaving Our Mark: In Celebration of the Pencil,” on view through March 27 at the D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Spring eld, offers a unique perspective on “pencil art.” Organized by New England artist Steve Wilda and curated by Spring eld Museums curator Julia … [Read more...] about IN CELEBRATION OF THE PENCIL
Welcome January/February 2016
Welcome to our first Artscope magazine of 2016. We hope you had a chance to follow our coverage from Art Basel Miami Beach on Instagram and Facebook in early December; this issue features two reports by Suzanne Volmer from the event and its satellite fairs as well as impressions from three of New England’s top gallery directors — Adam Adelson of Adelson Galleries, Mike Carroll of Schoolhouse Gallery and William Baczek of William Baczek Fine Arts. As we were putting this issue together, we learned that we’ll be returning to the Art Basel Collective Booth in Basel, Switzerland this June and more pressingly, will be represented in the media exhibition area at Art Palm Beach in West Palm Beach, Florida from January 20-24, allowing us to continue our mission to bring New England’s artists, galleries and museums to the attention of audiences and collectors outside the region. Art … [Read more...] about Welcome January/February 2016
Through The Lens of History
Grand Circle Pays Tribute To Selma and The Civil Rights Movement by Franklin W. Liu On November 4, 2008, Reverend Jesse Jackson sobbed openly on live TV as the nation’s electoral-vote count was tallied: a black man, a novice-politician, Barack H. Obama would historically become the 44th President of the United States of America. Fifty years ago, at the height of America’s Civil Rights Movement, this improbable election’s outcome was not even a remote dream when the March from Selma to Montgomery took place in 1965. That in January 2008 any black man would be elected as the U.S. president was a fantasy, a political-bridge too far to cross in 1965 — even for those audacious, staunch civil rights leaders who marched right alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who preached an enduring dream that one day his four little children would be judged not by the color of their skin … [Read more...] about Through The Lens of History
Classified Nov/Dec 2015
Your work could be artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Your work could be Artscope’s next CENTERFOLD. Work by established and emerging artists welcome. For the January/ February 2016 issue we will be accepting submissions for the category of Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Please send up to three images and your statement with contact information to: centerfold@artscopemagazine.com no later than December 10, 2015. Please send low resolution images for review. High resolution images must be available to be reproduced up to 9” x 12” according to the orientation of the work selected. No resumes please. The centerfold will be selected based on visual and/or conceptual quality, by a panel of one Artscope staff and two arts professionals. ART WORKSHOP RETREATS Gets rave reviews! Internationally Acclaimed Artist Instructors, All levels & All media including: watercolor, … [Read more...] about Classified Nov/Dec 2015
Capsule Previews
Thirteen large-scale works in oil by Vermont- and Massachusetts- based David Brewster — who says his creative process has always “sought out a kind of theater, often choosing opulent interiors and sylvan landscapes that are somehow distressed” — are featured in “Power- line” from November 4 through 28 at Chase Young Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave. #57, Boston. “Throughout my development I have continued to revisit these same scenarios, with their heightened sense of drama, movement and collapse, inviting the spectator to cross a threshold to confront aspects of our culture that are evolving or perishing.” Bayda Asbridge, a graduate of Syria’s Tishreen University, had one prerequisite for artists submit- ting work for her “Healing Fibers: War and Peace” group exhibition on view from November 7 through 28 at the Sprinkler Factory, 38 Harlow Street, Worcester, Mass. — fiber had to be … [Read more...] about Capsule Previews