July/August 2019
In This Issue
WELCOME: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
“Art may yet save the world.” Thus writes Nancy Nesvet in her wrap-up of this year’s Art Basel international art fair in Basel, Switzerland, in this issue. She’s addressing what […]
COLLECTIVE IDENTITY: MUSA CONNECTS OUR COMMON NARRATIVE
This July, “Collective Punishment,” works by 10 international artists curated by Roya Amigh, an Iranian artist now living in Boston, will be on view at the Musa Collective Gallery in […]
NEWBURY STREET RE\VISION: A SENSE OF PLACE AT COPLEY SOCIETY
There are times that our lives demand new experiences and nowhere else is this more the case than when it comes to viewing art — that is, unless the experience […]
STEPHEN PACE AT PAAM: POSTHUMOUS SHOW LAVISH WITH PAINT AND ENERGY
Stephen Pace will have his first solo exhibition, “Stephen Pace in Provincetown,” posthumously at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum from July 5 through September 1. During his lifetime, Pace […]
HUDSON RIVER REVISITED: FRUITLAND’S PASTORAL PRESENT
Step out of your car at Fruitlands, look across the Nashua River Valley covered with the lush mixed forest so typical of New England, then gaze west to Wachusett Mountain, […]
BACK TO THE GARDEN: FIELDS OF CHANGE AT BENNINGTON
Think of Vermont, and it may conjure images of bucolic hills dotted with fabled hamlets inhabited by eccentric intellectuals, passionate liberals, earth mothers and artists. This predominantly liberal-leaningtoward-radical state was […]
A TEACHABLE MOMENT: 10 YEAR MAINE CRAFTS RETROSPECTIVE AT FULLER
Is it “craft” or “fine art?” This old distinction is blurred in “Ten Years of Master Craft Artists” at the Fuller Craft Museum. Five craftspersons from the Maine Crafts Association […]
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED: DYNAMIC AND INVENTIVE RECYCLING AT ART COMPLEX
“Some Assembly Required,” a brilliantly curated exhibition by contemporary curator Craig Bloodgood, asks the question, “What do we do with our trash?” Eleven artists answer the question with sarcasm, humor, […]
CELEBRATING DORIS EPSTEIN: SOLO SHOW HIGHLIGHTS FALMOUTH SEASON
The Falmouth Art Center, which opened in its new digs in 2009 as an outgrowth of the original Falmouth Artists Guild founded in 1966, is a happening place of spirit […]
MAKING NEW CONNECTIONS: AN ART BROKER CAN FILL WALLS, EMPTY PORTFOLIOS
Most artists dream of seeing a red dot next to their work on exhibit. The red dot is the almost-international symbol that an artwork has been sold. Selling art is […]
ROCKLAND, MAINE: FINE ART, FINE DINING, FINE ACCOMMODATIONS
Maine is famous for its picturesque, artsy villages dotting the craggy coastline from Kittery to Cutler. Rockland was long included among the scores of such charming oceanside hamlets, but over […]
NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: OCEAN WALKS, SAILING AND GALLERIES ABOUND
On a sunny day, Newport, Rhode Island, has the atmospheric brightness of the French Riviera. Glints of silvery light play on the deep blue ocean and animate the waterfront. No […]
CONTEMPORARY CONNECTICUT: TIFFANY GLASS, RIVER WALKS, FRESH VIEWS BECKON
The summer months in Connecticut serve up a bounty of art, music and beautiful vistas that makes it easy to find a destination for all of these checkpoints within easy […]
SUMMER IN WILLIAMSTOWN: RENOIR AND CONTEMPORARIES ON VIEW AT THE CLARK
“Renoir: The Body, The Senses,” which is being shown at the Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, this summer, is a special exhibition that, as a starting point, draws from its […]
TANTALIZING & EXCEPTIONAL: LEAGUE OF NH CRAFTSMEN AT DISCOVER PORTSMOUTH
Oh dear, do I have to choose? Indeed, I must. Such are the restraints and parameters of writing for a magazine that demands excellence. Well, my assignment to cover the […]
CREATIVE COMMUNICATION: CONNECTICUT’S EMPOWERING ART OF HEALING
As a devotee of art, you grasp its power to inspire, inform and instigate. But what about its power to rehabilitate? A new program in Connecticut is getting encouraging feedback […]
SOLITARY MAN: FINDING MILTON BRIGHTMAN’S RELIGION
Painter Milton Brightman is a very traditional artist — traditional in every sense as defined in the dictionary as that which is handed down from age to age as in […]
A WOMAN-MADE FOREST: VON RYDINSVARD’S CONTOUR OF FEELING
I felt like I was walking through an enchanted forest, with the trees spreading out to make a trail for me. That was my answer when Ursula von Rydingsvard asked […]
ART BASEL AGAIN: CARING FOR THE WORLD THIS TIME
The levity and feeling of being wrapped in the cocoon of the art world was gone at this year’s Art Basel in Switzerland. With visitors and exhibitors aware of ecological […]
