January/February 2020
In This Issue
WELCOME STATEMENT JAN/FEB 2020
What percentage of what you do is performance art? I asked myself that question on December 15 as Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 was coming to a close. Earlier that […]
MYTHOLOGIZING AND ROMANTICIZING: SERGEI DIAGHILEV’S REVOLUTIONARY BALLET COMPANY BROUGHT TO LIFE
What a wonderful day of discovery! On a cold and dreary November day to find a new (for me) museum, a new artist and a new town with good restaurants! […]
IMAGE IS EVERYTHING: IT’S A MOD MOD WORLD AT WAM’S PHOTO REVOLUTION
“Photo Revolution: Andy Warhol to Cindy Sherman,” at the Worcester Art Museum through February 15, explores the evolution of photography at the hands of the baby boom generation. The exhibition […]
Mentors and Mentees: A LASTING LEGACY AT PINE MANOR
“Legacy: Passing the Torch,” curated by Stephanie Mahan Stigliano, presents the work of Boston and New England area artist educators in a variety of media, side by side with that […]
PRINTMAKING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: DREAMS AND PASSIONS FUEL MULTI-TALENTED COMMUNITY
From its beginning in 1995, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking’s mission has been to support, preserve and advance the art of original prints. Located in a converted stone carriage house […]
A CLASS REUNION: SCHOOL PHOTOS A SURPRISING DISPLAY AT THE HOOD
To most people who have ever attended school, sitting for a school photo is a recognizable annual rite of passage. For those who can afford it, the white envelope with […]
NEW BEDFORD TODAY: NEARBY WATERS INSPIRE SERIES OF EXHIBITIONS
Two painters well-entrenched in the tradition of modern American realism, a computer animator working with experimental painting and drawing processes, and a sculptor with a site-specific work that will evolve […]
ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND: BLAKEMAN MESMERIZED BY WIDE OPEN SPACES
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” — T.S. […]
A LASTING TRADITION: BRATTLEBORO GALLERY WALK HAS STAYING POWER
It wasn’t quite the proverbial “dark and stormy night,” but both snow and temperatures fell for the First Friday Gallery Walk in Brattleboro, Vermont, in December, diminishing crowds but not […]
Peaceful, Inspiring — SELF-TAUGHT: Brennan’s Art Celebrates Wampanoag Tradition
Emma Jo Mills Brennan does art for the “exploration and reflection” it affords her. “All of my work is related to my love for the earth, unless it’s abstract and […]
The Freedom of Time: Vermont Studio Center’s Invaluable Residency
Imagine that the only interruption to creative workflow is the flutter of an oak leaf tapping against your window, or the soft crunch of your footsteps in freshly fallen snow, […]
Light Beyond Vision: Child Captures the Cape’s Special Places
Can a book of photography substitute for an exhibition of the same photographs? This is the question pushed forward by Andrew Child by concurrently publishing a color photography book and […]
DORGAN’S SMOKY SURFACES: PORTRAIT DRAWINGS DRAW VIEWERS CLOSER
I pretended to hand over the clipboard and pen I was using to take down the rumination of my interviewee, on two of his upcoming drawing exhibitions (the first of […]
Capsule Previews: January/February 2020
The new year traditionally brings with it the introduction of the next lineage of artists welcomed into the Copley Society of Art through its New Members Show. “Selected by the […]
NOW ABOUT THAT BANANA… MIAMI ART WEEK 2019 DEMOCRATIZED THE ART WORLD
Miami Art Week 2019 hosted the people’s fairs. Artists at the most democratic fairs ever at Miami Beach and Miami during Miami Art Week used art and craft to deliver […]
Inspiring The Next Generation: Watercolor Society’s Annual Boston Show Precedes Move
New England Watercolor Society Marks 135-Years with the 2020 Signature Members Show. The New England Watercolor Society is one of the oldest watercolor societies in the nation. Its 2020 Signature […]
RICH IN MEANING AND MESSAGE: BULL’S BOOK OF PAINTING AND POETRY A GROUP EFFORT
One of only a handful of women painters in Louis K. Meisel’s stable of top Photorealists in the early 1970s,Fran Bull, by the mid-‘80s, had quit the movement, moved to […]
“These Little Worlds”: Moriarity’s Greenhouse Photos At Holy Cross
As the start of December approached, photographer Peter Moriarty was eagerly waiting for a delivery of 90 boxes holding 10 copies each of his new self-published book, “Warm Room: Photographs […]
WELL WORTH REVISITING: FAMILIAR LANDMARKS AND STYLES AT WHISTLER HOUSE
Juried exhibitions are a mainstay for art associations, galleries and museums, and with good reason. Everyone seems to benefit from them. Artists enter for the recognition, validation and exposure to […]
