March / April 2013
Contents
Volume 34, Issue 2
Features
Public Art—Preparing for the Next Chapter
By Elizabeth Keithline and Elysian McNiff
The authors scan recent New England projects as they outline a narrative
on public art practice.
Art in the Streets By Greg Cook
Why does the art world still disregard community pageantry?
Not All Wiser and Nicer By Joe Leduc
The danger of merging public and private is mitigated by activist artists.
Letters
FlashPoints
A Conversation with Anthony Greaney
By Robert Moeller
Dispatch
Art Without Borders: Encountering Cuba
By Andrea Shea
Dispatch
La Différence
By Leslie Sills
Museums
More than Getting the Numbers Right
By Mary Bucci McCoy
Opinion
Confronting Edward Kienholz
By Monroe Denton
Residencies
Ephemeral Art in a Permanent Place
By Stephen Vincent Kobasa
Book Review
Critical Work
By Carl Belz
Book Review
Playboy of the (Mid)western World
By David Bonetti
Looking Back
Inside the Carpenter Center
By Leah Triplett
Opinion
Public/Private Art: Transitions
By David Raymond
Destination
Northern Vermont
By Ric Kasini Kadour
Reviews
SPOTLIGHT
Illuminated Geographies: Pakistani Miniaturist Practice in the Wake of the Global Turn at the Tufts University Art Gallery by Christopher Capozzola
CONNECTICUT
Intimate Science at Real Art Ways, Hartford by Susan Rand Brown
Once Removed: Sculpture’s Changing Frame of Reference at Yale University Art Gallery by Patricia Rosoff
MAINE
Lois Dodd: Catching the Light at the Portland Museum of Art by Edgar Allen Beem
MASSACHUSETTS
Freeport [No. 006]: Nick Cave at Peabody Essex Museum by Judith Tolnick Champa
All Visual Boston III at Spectacle, Jamaica Plain by Caitie Moore
The Origin of the World—The Force of the Source—The Cause of the Vigor at Samsøn Projects by Leslie Sills
John Wilson: Eternal Presence at the Danforth Museum of Art by Alicia Faxon
NEW HAMPSHIRE
The Americas Illuminated: LED’s Relight Orozco Murals at Dartmouth College Library by Christopher Volpe
RHODE ISLAND
A Life of Looking: Nathan Lewis and Fred Dalkey at Community College of Rhode Island by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
VERMONT
Inaugural Exhibition: Georg Baselitz, Edward Burtynsky, Neil Jenney, and A.R. Penck at the Hall Art Foundation by Meg Brazill
In Every Issue
Focus On: Northern Vermont
Guide to Art Schools and Workshops
Calendar
Artist Directory: A resource for artists,
galleries, Museums, and collectors
Exhibitions
Art Seen