Given the wide-ranging nature of what museums do, there are many and varied challenges undertaken by museum people on a daily basis. These can be codified and listed in job descriptions. But what really drives museum people in their work? This compilation—a national sampling with a regional emphasis—reveals instead what personally motivates a variety of directors and curators. We look behind-the-scenes... Read more

Scott Hadfield: New Paintings April 27th- June 1st Barbara Krakow Gallery Boston, MA

There is an unnerving level of grace present in this focused sampling (just six paintings) of recent work by Scott Hadfield at the Barbara Krakow Gallery in Boston. The feeling is almost unsettling. Hadfield’s quiet, meditative exploration of nearly identical forms, and the ruggedness of the painted and scraped terrain that accompany them yield profoundly precise constructions.

That precision, however, is something of a ploy. Hadfield, who greatly... Read more