March/April 2020
In This Issue
WELCOME STATEMENT MAR/APR 2020
Welcome to our 14th Anniversary issue! Since 2006 it’s been our goal to promote the artists, galleries and museums of New England with the hope that our coverage leads to […]
A GAME CHANGING OPENING: MASSART MUSEUM HAS A REFRESHING IMMEDIACY
The Massachusetts College of Art & Design’s newly-minted MassArt Art Museum, branded as MAAM, offers audiences contemporary art immersion for free along Boston’s museum mile. Roughly the size of a […]
CAN ART SAVE THE WORLD? CAA EXHIBITION TAKES ON THE LURKING DARKNESS
When it seems that environmental protections are increasingly scaled back, even as we speed towards the point of no return, it is not unusual for so many artists to focus […]
DUXBURY’S SKILLED DEDICATION: HIGH QUALITY, IMAGINATION AT ART COMPLEX
No “bad art” to be seen in the Duxbury Art Association “Winter Juried Show!” Juried art exhibitions are a visual treat because of the diversity of topics, media and surprises. […]
GIVING PAUSE: VANDER SCHAAF’S VISUAL POEMS AT BROMFIELD
The Greek aphorism “Know thyself” has been attributed to numerous ancient Greek sages, but probably most often to Socrates and Plato. In more recent history, such luminaries as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, […]
DALE’S STATE OF BECOMING: BALANCING SCULPTURE & EMBROIDERIES IN GROTON
A pair of ravaged pewter sculptures resembling hieroglyphs flank the window in the Groton School’s Brodigan Gallery on the site map for its upcoming “In a State of Becoming” exhibition […]
LOCATION. LOCATION. LOCATION.: HARBOR GALLERY PERFECT FOR CLIPART WATER THEME
In East Boston, we cannot escape our connection to the water. Even surrounded by buildings, a glance in one direction or another leads you directly to the harbor. Entering the […]
THE SOUND OF ART: SPRUCE PEAK OPENS VERMONT’S 2020 VISION SERIES
Birds chirp, piano strings make new sounds, a human voice honors nature, drawers reveal surprises. Experienced together in a small, innovative exhibition called “Art of Sound” at the Spruce Peak […]
OUR EVER-CHANGING MOODS: SPRING’S TIMELY ARRIVAL AT COPLEY SOCIETY
As its artist prospectus had called for artwork to “celebrate the unexpected beauty of winter and the promise of spring,” taking a train trip whose tracks traveled alongside woods, streams […]
CORNERED: HORACE D. BALLARD – 120 YEARS OF LANDMARK IMAGERY AT WILLIAMS
In the first survey of its vast photographic collection that covers roughly a quarter of its collection and spans close to 120 years, the Williams College Museum of Art’s current […]
SCULPTORS AS ACTIVISTS: TAKING A STAND AT ATTLEBORO ARTS MUSEUM
Primaries for the national election punctuate politics in the United States with rhetoric ranging from how to reach for the brass ring of prosperity to stumping on national and global […]
VISUAL PASSION: ART/WORD TACKLES VISIONS OF LOVE AT LASELL
The ancient Greeks spoke of eight kinds of love: Eros (sexual love), Philia (friendship), Storge (love of kin and children), Ludus (playful love or flirtation), Mania (obsessiveness), Pragma (mature love), […]
INDIGENOUS ART AT YALE: “AN ENTANGLED, OFTEN-VIOLENT, SHARED HISTORY”
Indigenous art has long existed under the radar at Yale University, with its thousands of artworks and cultural and sacred items residing in disparate collections scattered throughout the campus. “Objects […]
CATAMOUNT’S PERFORMATIVE ACTS: MCADAMS’ SHOW A STUDY IN SOCIAL DOCUMENTATION
If you were alive in the ‘70s and if you were drawn into the wave of protest for change taking place then, you remember the often-heard admonition from then Black […]
CUBA’S OTHER-WORLDLINESS ARTISTS EXPLORE POST-SOVIET ISLAND LIFE
“Archives of Consciousness: Six Cuban Artists,” an exhibition that captures the complexity of Cuba in the post-Soviet era, is a runaway hit at the Fairfield University Art Museum, and a […]
PHOTOGRAPHY AS POWER: ART PRC SHOWCASE CONFRONTS VIEWERS’ PERCEPTIONS
There’s no way to distinguish how many years passed make a specific time period history. In “Present Histories Redefined,” history lies within the last two calendar years. The photographs of […]
ART FOR JET SETTERS: INTRODUCING AN UNTAPPED MARKET FOR PAINTERS
One might wonder: where do the owners of private jets collect art? Well, in New York City, of course! There was an exclusive VIP Post- Modern and Modern art exhibition […]
A NEW WAY OF SEEING: ART FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM AT REINVENTED MOMA
Art in 2020 is increasingly the domain of the young, with millennials, Gen Xers, Generation Y and Z inaugurating change in museums. These visitors have little time to walk around […]
