Founded in 1969, the Fuller Craft Museum begins the celebration of its 50th year with the opening of “Striking Gold: Fuller at Fifty” on September 7, and its 50th Anniversary Gala that takes place on Saturday, October 19. The landmark exhibition aims to celebrate the museum’s rich past and provide a look at its future direction through the works of 57 artists for whom gold is central to their work. The exhibition was co-curated by Fuller Craft Museum Chief Curator Beth McLaughlin (BM) and Suzanne Ramljak (SR), an art historian, writer, curator and former editor of Metalsmith magazine. Artscope Magazine’s managing editor, Brian Goslow, shared questions with them on the exhibition and the museum’s anniversary. How was “Striking Gold” selected as the theme for “Fuller At Fifty?” BETH MCLAUGHLIN (BM): A few years back, we started discussing Fuller Craft’s upcoming 50th anniversary and … [Read more...] about BETH MCLAUGHLIN & SUZANNE RAMLJAK: FULLER’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY IS PURE GOLD
September/October 2019
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 WELCOME: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
Just as we were readying to go to press with this issue, Richard Florida, whose 2002 book, “The Rise of the Creative Class” popularized the concept of “The Creative City” and subsequently, the creative economy and the importance it plays in the development and success of a city looking to reinvent and reinvigorate itself through the arts, announced the results of a new survey on citylab.com that found that a large portion of our country’s workers could be classified as members of the country’s creative class. “The class composed of knowledge workers, techies, and cultural creatives is a key force in the economic growth of U.S. cities,” Florida wrote. “More than 55 million workers are members of America’s creative class, or above 35 percent of the workforce.” Based on 2017 figures, 46.8 percent of Boston-Cambridge-Newton Metro Area’s workers, 1,230,882 in total, fall under this … [Read more...] about SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2019 WELCOME: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
LOVE LETTERS: MILLER WHITE COVERS YOU IN LOVE
Susan Danton, owner of Miller White Fine Arts on Cape Cod, said the exhibit “Love Letters,” that she originated and curated, was inspired by an 1846 letter from Gustave Flaubert to his lover, Louise Colet: “I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die.” If you are wondering if there is a further French connection, no, she isn’t a descendant of the French revolutionary Georges Jacques Danton. Her stockbroker father changed their surname to Danton. Danton has multiple raisons d’êtres for the exhibit, calling it “an evocative inquiry into physical love, from gender to sex to sexual orientation.” Motivated in part by a “sociopolitical agenda,” to wit, the Me Too Movement, “Love Letters” is also an antidote to the hate we are seeing in our nation and “a way to provoke a discussion … [Read more...] about LOVE LETTERS: MILLER WHITE COVERS YOU IN LOVE