January / February 2019
Contents
Volume 40, Issue 1
FEATURES
Starfield’s Ghosts
By Cerys Wilson
Resurrecting Paul Manship’s Home and Legacy
The Musée Imaginaire
By Christopher Volpe
The Hood Museum Reinvents Itself
Building Bridges
By Julianna Thibodeaux, Corwin Levi & Penny Schwartz
A Look Inside Three Artist Residencies
COLUMNS
Publisher’s Letter
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Studio Visit
Hilary Irons
By Carl Little
Studio Visit
Josephine Halvorson
By Julianna Thibodeaux
Profile
Emily Mason
By Arlene Distler
Exhibitions
Lalla Essaydi & Caitlin Cherry
By Elizabeth Maynard
Legacy
Looking Back: Celebrating 40 Years of Art New England
By Sarah Baker
Theater
Entertaining Ghosts (and Real People Too): Plays at Mount Auburn Cemetery
By Jared Bowen
Films
The Price of Everything;
Kusama: Infinity
By Ethan Gilsdorf
Curator’s Eye
A Closer Look at Julie Mehretu’s Iridium over Aleppo
By John Stromberg in conversation with Sarah Baker
Jewelry
The Art (and Expression) of Jewelry
By Susan Boulanger
Book Review
Berlin
By Cynthia Close
Colors
Black: Indelible and Enigmatic
By Dian Parker
REVIEWS & PREVIEWS
SPOTLIGHTS
Dark Segment at Real Art Ways
by Jacquelyn Gleisner
CMCA Biennial 2018 at Center for Maine Contemporary Art
by Carl Little
CONNECTICUT
Francesco Clemente: Works 1978–2018 at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center
by Jacquelyn Gleisner
The Tongue is an Eye at Art Museum, University of St. Joseph
by Susan Rand Brown
MAINE
Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era at Bates College Museum of Art
by Heather D. Martin
Beyond the Pedestal: Isamu Noguchi and the Borders of Sculpture at Portland Museum of Art
by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Rotherwas Project 4: Yinka Shonibare MBE, The American Library Collection at Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
by Laura Holland
ArtSynergies Presents: Fusion at The Art Complex Museum
by Don Wilkinson
17 Years Boy at Readywipe Gallery
by Alexander Castro
Alexandria Smith: A Litany for Survival at BU Art Galleries, Stone Gallery
by Alexander Castro
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Yoav Horesh: Aftermath at University of New Hampshire Museum of Art
by Michelle Aldredge
RHODE ISLAND
Bona Drag: An Incomplete History of Drag and Cross-Gender Performance in
Film and Video Art (Part 1) at RISD Museum
by Loren King
VERMONT
Varujan Boghosian: Late Work Construction & Collage at BigTown Gallery
by B. Amore
Altered Spaces Group Exhibition at Spruce Peak Arts
by Jon Meyer
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar
Focus On: Summer Residencies & Workshops
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen
ON THE COVER: Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, L’attitude face à la mondialisation (Attitudes towards globalization), 2015, acrylic and oil on canvas. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Contemporary Art Fund and the Alvin and Mary Bert Gutman 1940 Acquisition Fund; 2017.4. Courtesy of the artist and October Gallery, London. See page 38.