July/August 2025
Interactive Edition
In This Issue
Welcome July/August 2025
Welcome to our summer 2025 issue, In reviewing the images of artworks our writers submitted to accompany their stories, I realized that this issue would be, unintentionally, abstract and laid […]
CORNERED
Carmen Cicero has made art since he was a child and at 99 is still doing so. The Berta Walker Gallery is currently featuring some of his prolific watercolors in […]
TIMELESS GRACE IN BLOOM
The New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill in Boylston, Massachusetts has been transformed into a space where botanical beauty meets historical majesty. “Chinese Empresses,” the culminating exhibition of Xiang […]
AND ANOTHER THING …
When the British illustrator Ralph Steadman came to prominence in the early 1970s, the underground press was flourishing. The wild west of ad hoc leaflets and magazines — filled with […]
WAKE-UP CALLS IN OUR TIME
In a period in which America’s political, social and environmental certainties are being steadily eroded and dismantled, cutting edge art is needed more than ever to lead us to explore […]
UNLOCKED MEMORIES AT AMA
Whimsical and playful, surreal and profound, “Fragments of Memory” at the Armenian Museum of America in Watertown firmly places Armenian American artist Varujan Boghosian in the company of influential assemblage […]
IMMENSELY DETAILED, LABOR INTENSIVE
Imagine how challenging and rewarding it must have been for the Worcester Art Museum’s (WAM) Assistant Curator of European Art, Delaney Keenan, to explore the museum’s acquisition records to search […]
FOR LOVE OF SCULPTURE
“But is it interesting?” — Gertrude Stein “Marny” Solomon never ceased to find Peter Lipsitt’s sculptures, of whatever mode or material, interesting. Frequenting his solo exhibitions at the Boston Sculptors […]
SEAWORTHY IN NEWPORT
“Sean Landers: Lost at Sea” exhibition at the Newport Art Museum opens with Landers’ oil painting “Lighthouse Keepers in Shadows” mounted at the entrance to a narrow corridor. Like a […]
EMOTIONALLY RESONANT
Nestled along Connecticut’s scenic Gold Coast lies the charming town of Fairfield, home to a wealth of attractions, including the picturesque Fairfield University. Perched atop a hill on the campus […]
TRUE NEW ENGLANDERS
Opening on July 17 and running through August 16 at the Copley Society of Art on Boston’s Newbury Street, “A Shared Space: One Studio, Two Views” features the varied paintings […]
TURNING TRASH INTO TREASURE
The art in “Recycled: Trash and Treasure: Rediscovered” juried exhibition at the Menino Arts Center in the Hyde Park section of Boston approaches the reuse of disposable materials from an […]
AESTHETICALLY PLEASING AND DIVERSE
There’s no one way to paint a New England summer. For some people, summertime is a cold drink on a Cape Cod beach; for others it’s a walk through a […]
OBJECT LESSONS
Over the course of a year, artist Nancy Gruskin selected works by 11 others with studio visits as far afield as New York City and London, United Kingdom for “Object […]
EASTHAMPTON STRONG
Exactly one year ago, Artscope Magazine ran a story by Ami Bennitt of #ARTSTAYSHERE about the upcoming displacement of scores of artists inhabiting the spaces of the Cottage Street Studios, […]
A TREASURE IN OUR BACKYARD
When you hear the term “craft fair,” do monkeys made from socks, syrupy-sweet decoupage plaques with shih tzu puppies and tacky jewelry come to mind? OK. I get that. But […]
THOUGHTFUL WORK, SURPRISE EVENTS
Art Basel 2025, held in its original hometown, once again transcended the backdrop of global uncertainty, wars, environmental crises and economic turmoil to offer an exhilarating and necessary respite. From […]
A PLANNED LEGACY IN PROVIDENCE
Angell Street Galleries in Providence, Rhode Island is a concept driven exhibition venue recently opened as an incubator-stylepresentation space. A quirk of its existence is that it was formerly a […]
Capsule Previews
“Smiling Out Loud,” paintings by DaNice D. Marshall “depicting ordinary life with smiles of joy,” opens July 1 at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, 98 Hayden Rowe St., Hopkinton, […]
