May / June 2014
Contents
Volume 35, Issue 3
FEATURES
Now What? Plotting the Future
By Patricia Rosoff
How six local museums are renewing their missions and managing change
The Lure of Hotel Collections
By Judith Tolnick Champa
New England-wide, collections are becoming our destinations. Consider this select dozen…
Museums You Should Know
By Cheryl Fenton
Shock and Awe! These museums will surprise.
COLUMNS
Letters
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Studio Visit: Newport, RI
Sue McNally
By Doug Norris
Re-Viewing History
Unlikely Partners: Veterans as Interpreters
By Susan Strickler
Renewal
The Rose Is (Still) a Rose
By Anya Ventura
A Grand Tourist Destination
Pioneering in Newport County
By Trudy Coxe
Legacy
The Boston Raphael: A Curious Case
By Belinda Rathbone
Teaching Museums
Learning from Studio: Campus Creativity
By John R. Stomberg
Wearable Art Outside the Urban Center—Part Two
Fashioning a Sense of Place
By Rachel Shipps
The Curator’s Eye
Mixing It Up: Neel/Field and a 21st-century update at the Bennington Museum
By Jamie Franklin
Making Art
Conserving Contemporary Art
By Charles Bonenti
Destination: Rhode Island
The Rise of Rhode Island Is a Story that Writes Itself
By Samantha DiMauro
REVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
Big Changes Debut at the Clark at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
by Judith Tolnick Champa
CONNECTICUT
Oral Fixations: Drawings by Julia Randall at Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
Jason Peters: Refraction at Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University
by Rachael Palacios
MAINE
Under the Surface: Surrealist Photography at Bowdoin College Museum of Art
by Carl Little
Twisted Path III: Questions of Balance at the Abbe Museum by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Jon Imber: Carry On at Danforth Museum of Art
by Alicia Faxon
Mill Works: Flowers in the Factory and Inventing Lowell at American Textile History Museum
by Frances J. Folsom
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Exploring the Currier Inside Out: Andrew Witkin, Among Others at Currier Museum of Art
by Debbie Hagan
NH Furniture Masters, Prison Outreach Program, and Guild of NH Woodworkers at League of New Hampshire Craftsmen by Debbie Hagan
RHODE ISLAND
Arlene Shechet: Meissen Recast at RISD Museum by Judy Ann Goldman
Newport Annual Members’ Juried Exhibition at Newport Art Museum by Michael Rose
VERMONT
Polly Apfelbaum: Evergreen Blueshoes at the BCA Center by Ric Kasini Kadour
ANONYMOUS: Contemporary Tibetan Artists at Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
by Cynthia L. Close
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar
Focus On: Rhode Island
Focus On: Connecticut Art Trail
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Seen