Artscope Magazine Issue 80 - May/June 2019
Issue 80

May/June 2019

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Nayda Cuevas during her artist-in-residence stay at Nobles & Greenough at the Foster Gallery in front of her “#ExpectationsofMotherhood” series, 2018, mixed media/image transfer, 12” squares. Photograph by Ben Heider.
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CORNERED: NAYDA AURORA CUEVAS

Born in Puerto Rico, Nayda Aurora Cuevas moved to the United States with her family at the age of 10, a point in her life, she writes on her website, […]

By Brian Goslow
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MARKS OF EMOTION: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM IN MAYNARD

Spring has brought a visually compelling exhibit to ArtSpace Maynard. “Mark of Emotion,” curated by Sallie Strand, presents the stylistically diverse paintings of three accomplished abstract artists, Joanne Holtje, Jane […]

By Flavia Cigliano
Joanne Holtje, "Odysseus Slaughters the Suitors," oil on panel, 30” x 40”.
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STILL EMPOWERING: HERA’S DISTINCTIVE SUMMER MEMBERS SHOW

Hera Gallery in Wakefield, Rhode Island is a cooperative gallery founded in 1974 as an innovative outpost of feminist art activism. In a 1983 New York Times article, “When Artists […]

By Suzanne Volmer
Abigail Wamboldt, "She Grew Up to Play Bones," oil on canvas, wood, thread.
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MAKING CONNECTIONS: WITH JULIE MEHRETU

It is inspiring when our world-class universities invite artists to have a seat at the table. On Monday, April 8, 2019, MIT organized a panel discussion centering on the artist […]

By Donna Dodson
miriam cooke, Julie Mehretu, Asma Naeem and Deen Sharp (from left to right) at Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture panel discusson at MIT on April 8, 2019. Photograph by Donna Dodson.
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A WELCOME REOPENING: GREATLY MISSED, THE DANFORTH IS BACK

For the reopening at its new renovated location in the historic Jonathan Maynard Building, now part of Framingham State University, the Danforth Art Museum’s curator Jessica Roscio has organized a […]

By J. Fatima Martins
Ed Stitt, "11 Tetlaw Street, From the Road," 1937, oil on canvas.
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STILL CONTEMPORARY: FRIDA KAHLO IN BOSTON AND BROOKLYN

Frida Kahlo was a contemporary artist, even by today’s standards. Her multidisciplinary art practice was a predecessor to today’s public relations creation of celebrity. Kahlo introduced feminism to a field […]

By Nancy Nesvet
Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907–1954), "My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree)," 1936, oil and tempera on zinc. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Allan Roos, M.D., and B. Mathieu Roos, 1976. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY. © 2019 Banco de México Diego Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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THE POWER OF ILLUSTRATION: NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM TURNS 50

Ever since Norman Rockwell’s portrayals of American life graced the covers of The Saturday Evening Post, the beloved illustrator has been among the most recognized artists reflecting American art and […]

By Elayne Clift
Norman Rockwell (1894–1978), "Girl Reading the Post," 1941, oil on canvas, 35 1/4” x 27 1/4”. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 1, 1941 From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum. ©1941 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.
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PETE SOUZA: ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LENS

“Obama: An Intimate Portrait” is a hand-picked collection of 50 photos taken by Dartmouth native and former White House photographer Pete Souza. The exhibit is presented at the New Bedford […]

By Ron Fortier
"Visiting Mandela’s Prison Cell." Inside Nelson Mandela’s prison cell on Robben Island, off Cape Town, South Africa, the President and his family listened attentively to a first-hand account of what it was like to be imprisoned there during apartheid. Their guide was activist Ahmed Kathrada, who was imprisoned for 18 years. Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years before apartheid ended; he became the first President of South Africa to be elected by a fully free and democratic process. The President had met Mandela, one of his heroes, when he was a U.S. Senator. Mandela was not well enough to receive a visit on this trip, and he died some five months later. June 30, 2013. Courtesy of Little, Brown and Company/Pete Souza.
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WELCOME: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW

As we were putting the final touches on this issue, our 80th, our publisher, Kaveh Mojtabai, told me, “The fashion work on our cover harkens back to an era of […]

By Brian Goslow
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SHAPED BY OIL: MATHEWS DOCUMENTS LIFE IN THE CASPIAN STATES

Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews brings the environmental and cultural facets of the five countries bordering the Caspian Sea to viewers in the recently-opened exhibition, “Caspian: The Elements.” In October 2018, […]

By Isabel Barbi
"The 'Door to Hell.'" In 1971, Soviet geologists were drilling in the Turkmen desert when the land gave way beneath them, leaving a seventy-meter-wide, noxious gas–emitting crater. They ignited the gas to try to burn off the excess, but the crater has been ablaze ever since. Darvaza, Turkmenistan, 2012. Courtesy Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. © Chloe Dewe Mathews.
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