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Cixi
Features

TIMELESS GRACE IN BLOOM

By Claudia Fiks

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 […]

Carmen Cicero in his Bowery Loft_2023_Photograph by Joshua Charow
Cornered

CORNERED

By Lee Roscoe

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 […]

Toni Birkmeyer
Welcome

Welcome July/August 2025

By Brian Goslow

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 […]

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Artscope Online, Music

Music as Medicine

By Claudia Fiks

At the Emerson Colonial Theatre in Boston, MA, on May 30 and 31, something extraordinary unfolded: not a typical concert, not just a screening, but “The Witcher 3 Live Immersive […]

Cantor
Capsule Previews

CAPSULE PREVIEWS

By Brian Goslow

“Hear, Here,” an exhibition of new works by Ann Steuernagel derived from listening to and working with the natural environment will be on view from May 2 through June 27 […]

Lord
Community

BRINGING ART TO HOLLYWOOD

By Madeleine Lord

Award winning movie director and writer Henry Chaisson was scouring New England in 2024 to find art for his next film, “Recluse,” which he filmed in Massachusetts last November. He […]

Roscoe
Editorials

AVERSION THERAPY THEATER

By Lee Roscoe

I was talking to Artscope Magazine’s editor, Brian Goslow, about my play “IMPOSSIBLE?” a story of what happens to friends in a small New England town when a tyrannical president takes over the […]

Skybin
Community

ART AND TRAVEL

By Elayne Clift

All my life, I have disagreed with Henry David Thoreau who thought it wasn’t “worthwhile to [travel] around the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.” The joy of travel […]

Coyne
Reviews

ART NOW IN NORTH ADAMS

By Marjorie Kaye

Beginning in mid-May, 46 locally-based artists will inhabit the walls, floor and ceiling of Ivan Stojakovic’s Mixed Media Space gallery located in his expansive Groundart Studios building in North Adams, […]

Wittenberg
Features

A CHROMATIC INTENSITY

By Linda Sutherland

Ogunquit is a sleepy little coastal town in Downeast, Maine — until the summer hits and then it rivals Las Vegas. Great restaurants. Terrific boutiques. Super fun places — Perkins […]

Umbrella
Features

POWER AND RADIANT REVERENCE

By Madeleine Lord

When you enter the “Weaving an Address” exhibition at the Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, Massachusetts, your gaze is directed to the central wall of the Allie Kussin Gallery. It’s […]

Sandman
Features

JO SANDMAN: YEAR OF THE SNAKE

By Carolyn Wirth

Jo Sandman is a painter and multidisciplinary artist, now aged 93, who has exhibited nationally and internationally during her long career. Sandman attended the legendary Black Mountain College in North […]