January / February 2014
Contents
Volume 35, Issue 1
FEATURES
Innovation and Heritage: Photography in New England
By Robyn Day
A re-energized medium preserves its dual foundation in art and science.
Out of Hiding: Camouflage turns 100
By Doug Norris
Camouflage steps overtly into the field of visual culture to command attention.
Are Video Games Art?
By Ethan Gilsdorf
It’s time to question the legitimacy of video games and the edict of Roger Ebert.
Locating the Body in Stanley Greenberg’s Time Machines
By Sandrine Schaefer
Considering photography where complex image-making, big physics, and human connectivity collide.
COLUMNS
LETTERS
FlashPoints
Profile
George Fifield, the Cosmos of Cyberarts
By David Teng Olsen
Architecture
More Than Just Speculating: Three Boston Architectural Firms Are Change-Makers
By James McCown
Photography
The Still Developing Story of Polaroid
By Christopher Capozzola
Modernism
Connecticut Yankees in Modernism’s Court
By Christopher Capozzola
Creative Absence
I’m Not There:
Sophie Calle’s Last Seen
By Anya Ventura
Abstraction
Harry Holtzman:
A Man of Two Minds, One Heart
By Patricia Rosoff
Book Review
The Lost Battles:
Leonardo, Michelangelo,
and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
By Christopher Busa
REVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
Future Beauty: Avant-Garde Japanese Fashion at the Peabody Essex Museum by Mary Bucci McCoy
CONNECTICUT
An Artificial Wilderness: The Landscape in Contemporary Photography at the WadsworthAtheneum Museum of Art by Christian Holland
Closer: The Graphic Art of Chuck Close at the Bruce Museum by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
MAINE
Sachiko Akiyama: On Finding Home at the University of Maine Museum of Art by Carl Little
Time Clorius: The Nature of Deception at Aucocisco Galleries by Britta Konau
MASSACHUSETTS
Nadaleena Mirat Brettmann: Fragments of a Storm presented by Canvas Fine Arts at
AlteRnaTive Art Space by Judith Tolnick Champa
Alison Saar: Still… at the Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts
College of Art and Designby Debra Cash
Animals: Dreamed & Dreaming at the Concord Art Association by Alicia Faxon
James Prosek: The Spaces in Between at the Addison Gallery of American Art by Debbie Hagan
hris Marker: Guillaume-en-Égypte at the Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and at Hayden, Reference Galleries, MIT by Ethan Gilsdorf
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Postwar Abstraction at The Banks Gallery by Christopher Volpe
RHODE ISLAND
Vincent Valdez: The Strangest Fruit at the David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University by Rachel Shipps
The RI Art Archive Project Exhibition at Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College
by Rachel Shipps
VERMONT
CHOATE/CHAOS at CYNTHIA-REEVES New England by Meg Brazill
Vermont International Film Festival at multiple venues, Burlington, VT by Cynthia L. Close
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar
Focus On: Summer Residencies & Workshops
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen