July/August 2019

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CONTENTS
Volume 40, Issue 4

FEATURES

Escaping the Shadow
By Charles Bonenti
Ida O’Keeffe at The Clark

Revolutionary Rascals
By Kristin Nord
Puppets Speak Out!

A Cultivated Life
By Cynthia Close
Artists and Their Gardens

The Horizontal Hothouse
By Carl Little
Where Craft Became Fine Art

COLUMNS

Publisher’s Letter

FlashPoints

Gallery FlashPoints

Studio Visit
Tabitha Vevers
By Susan Rand Brown

Studio Visit
Alison Hildreth
By Carl Little

Film
WBCN and The American Revolution
By Ethan Gilsdorf

Profile
Andrew Raftery
By Cerys Wilson

Exhibitions
From Red to Blue:
Seeing the Sixties in Bennington
By Christopher Capozzola

Museums
Van Gogh Returns to
the Wadsworth
By Sarah Baker

Books
Summer Reading
By S. Scarlett Moberly & Charlotte Foote

Previews
Save the Dates: Six Highly Anticipated Exhibitions
By Christopher Volpe

Theater
Shakespeare & Company: The Bard in the Berkshires
By Jared Bowen

New Spaces
The Museum Without Walls: DATMA Arrives in New Bedford
By Don Wilkinson

REVIEWS & PREVIEWS

SPOTLIGHT
Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art at Florence Griswold Museum
by Jacquelyn Gleisner

CONNECTICUT
Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art at The Aldrich Contemporary
Art Museum by Jacquelyn Gleisner

Deborah Dancy: The Weight of the World at Five Points Gallery
by Jacquelyn Gleisner

MAINE
K. Min: Seoul, New York and Friendship at Caldbeck Gallery
by Carl Little

Another Shore: Paintings by Joel Janowitz at gWatson Gallery
by Carl Little

MASSACHUSETTS
New Horizon: Doug Aitken at The Trustees of Reservations
by Alexander Castro

Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse at MIT List Visual Arts Center
by Heather Martin

deCordova New England Biennial 2019 at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
by Susan Boulanger

Talk to Me: Contemporary Figurative Sculpture by Beckie Kravetz at Barn Gallery
by Sarah Baker

NEW HAMPSHIRE
James Chase and Loretta Park: Up In Smoke and Racking Up Seconds at The Magenta Suite
by Corwin Levi

RHODE ISLAND
Spell of the Sensuous: Joyce Tenneson and John Paul Caponigro at YJ Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
by Elizabeth Maynard

Questionable Foundations: Per Barclay’s Material Politics at Redwood Library and Athenæum
by Elizabeth Maynard

VERMONT
Coincidence Control: Angus McCullough at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
by Michelle Aldredge

The Human Experience: Rose Umerlik at Northern Daughters
by Molly Zapp

Lyell Castonguay: Tributes at Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts
by Jon Meyer

IN THIS ISSUE

Calendar

Destination: Coastal Maine

Destination: Cape Cod

Destination: Cape Ann

Guide to Schools and Workshops

Art Guide

Exhibition Listings

Classifieds

Art Seen


ON THE COVER: In response to the Me Too movement, Tabitha Vevers asks the question, Can You See Me Now? (c) 2017, 12 x 12″, oil & gold leaf on mylar. Courtesy of Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA.
See pages 7 and 12.

CORRECTION: On page 7 of the May/June 2019 issue Life/Like: Photographs by Martine Gutierrez at Mount Holyoke
College Art Museum by Laura Holland should be listed under Massachusetts, not New Hampshire.

CORRECTION: On page 14 of the May/June 2019 issue, it should read Twelve New Directors Take the Helm. The list
should include Carey Mack Weber who was named executive director of the Fairfield University Art Museum. She was
previously the interim and assistant director of the museum. She is also the president of the Connecticut Art Trail.