November/December 2022
Interactive Edition
In This Issue
WELCOME November/December 2022: FROM BRIAN GOSLOW
Dear Artscope reader, As we near the end of 2022, I look back at how we slowly regained our ability to get out and view art together – still carefully […]
‘3,800 HIDDEN TREASURES’
“Sixty Years of Collecting,” a two-semester exhibition at the University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA) at UMass Amherst, showcases 112 works from the museum’s permanent art collection. To some visitors, […]
A BEEHIVE OF DUALITY
For every step forward, there are, in the case of the year 2022, a dozen steps backward. Call this the year of the tumbling dice. Where does the strange momentum […]
FIRE IN THE ATHENEUM
A trend of social commentary has emerged among the latest generation of glass artists, a conceptual development evident in “Fired Up: Glass Today,” an exhibition curated by Brandy Culp, Richard […]
AN INSPIRATIONAL PAIRING
Merriam Webster provides a primary and secondary definition of Indigenous: “produced, growing, living or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment” and “of or relating to the […]
WEEKEND SAMPLER
How about a wonderful, wandering art-filled day trip (or two) through Seacoast New Hampshire and north to Portland? Sometimes it’s just plain exhilarating to jump in the convertible, head north […]
SUSPENDED ANIMATION
I’ve written hundreds of reviews of galleries, museums and fine craft shows over the years, with many clever theme titles, but I must say this is among the cleverest titles […]
SIGNS OF THE HOUR
“The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East,” on view at Tufts University Art Gallery through December 11, begins in contrast. On one wall, two copper works […]
REINTRODUCING MARY ANN UNGER
Upon entering the expansive, light-filled space on the second floor of the Williams College Museum of Art, one can’t help but notice the elegance of the placement of the two- […]
RENDERING DISORDER
Diana Zipeto, the Lowell-based artist who has built her career on the practice of rendering images, was shocked to discover that an MRI is more of a map than a […]
A SKEPTICAL CELEBRATION
Currently in its seventh exhibition at the Atlantic Wharf Gallery in downtown Boston, the group show Shared Habitat Earth is a vibrant and eclectic collection of works all connected to […]
ART FOR OUR EARTH
Printmaker Bethia Brehmer’s Wisconsin youth has stayed with her through her changes of venues from Sheboygan to Madison, to Amherst, Massachusetts and Cape Cod, where she’s lived for decades. Her […]
WELCOMED IN SOMERVILLE
Somerville Museum is hosting the exhibition titled “Sanctuary City,” organized and curated by Julia Csekö, the recipient of the museum’s Community Curator Grant. The exhibition is a group show that […]
ROMANTIC ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Everyone lives their lives with vivid memories of “how I spent the Covid years!” Sarah Meyers Brent ground out the Covid chaos by combing her home and the town dumps […]
AN INTENSITY OF COLOR
If, as an adult, you have read Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” you will remember that Alice is confronted with paradoxes, contradictions in logic, disorientation of time and generally […]
HIPPOS AND ICEBERGS
To get to Lawrence Academy from Cambridge, you must fly over the super-highways of Route 2 (West) and 495 (North), then bear, with some patience, the horse and carriage — […]
BEAUTY AND MORTALITY
t’s probably not a coincidence that Vaughn Sills’ exhibition opened the day after the area’s first frost warning, the warm tones of “This Precious Life” bringing needed heat to those […]
AN INNER SENSE OF WHOLENESS
Olivia Bernard’s exhibition of sculpture and two-dimensional work spreads out under the sloping roof of The Stoneleigh- Burnham School’s Geissler Gallery. Hanging sheets of white scrim bound the space on […]
A MAGNIFICENT GLOBAL ART EXPERIENCE
“Live life with no excuses. Travel with no regret.” — Oscar Wilde The art of travel is traveling with art! Are we there yet? While traveling, experiencing the world through […]
