November / December 2013

November / December 2013

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Contents

Volume 34, Issue 6

FEATURES

Actions and Interactions: Ann Hamilton
By Francine Koslow Miller
Expanding the arena for public installation

Black Power: African American Art from 1960s and ‘70s
Los Angeles
By Greg Cook

Re-evaluating an important turning point in recent history

Not Feeling Guilty About Being a Painter
By Edgar Allen Beem
Energizing painting in New England

Rates of Exchange: Museum as Gift
By Stephen Vincent Kobasa

Risking a collection

Columns

Letters

FlashPoints

Giving
Collectdotgive.org: The Gift of Art that Keeps on Giving Back
By Robyn Day

Medical Art
Lifesaving Fashion: The Gift of Designer Medical ID Jewelry
By Robyn Day

Giving and Receiving
Family Baggage
By Nicholas Kilmer

Art Fairs
Anticipating and Planning for Miami—Just Looking?
By Judith Tolnick Champa

Painting
Courbet: Mapping Realism
By Henry McMahon

From the Studio
Making It in Prints
By Judy Ann Goldman

Architecture
Animating a Pediment
By Christine Temin

Art Destination
Portland, Maine
By Daniel Kany

Expansion
The Shelburne Museum
By Ric Kasini Kadour

Reviews

SPOTLIGHT

Picasso: The Vollard Suite at the Hood Art Museum, Dartmouth College
by Kirsten Hoving

CONNECTICUT

Red Grooms: Larger than Life at the Yale University Art Gallery
by Pat Rosoff
Our Fragile Home: Pat Musick and Jerry Carr at the Housatonic Museum of Art
by Stephen Vincent Kobasa

MAINE

Ahmed Alsoudani: Redacted at the Portland Museum of Art
by Edgar Allen Beem
Inaugural Exhibition, Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion at Colby College Museum of Art
by Ken Greenleaf

MASSACHUSETTS

She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Diana Gaston
B. Lynch: The Red and the Grey at Historic Northampton Museum & Education Center by Alicia Faxon
Restless Creature at Jacob’s Pillow
by Debra Cash
Barbara Bosworth: To Be At The Farther Edge at Mead Art Museum, Amherst College by Charles Bonenti

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Wake Up Call: Recent Work by Raul Gonzalez III and Elaine Bay at Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire
by Christopher Volpe

RHODE ISLAND

Monster Flowers/Leslie Bostrom at The Chazan Gallery, Wheeler School
by Anya Ventura

VERMONT

Vito Acconci: Thinking Space at Middlebury College Museum of Art
by Cynthia Close
Sarah O Donnell: A Visible Night at Burlington City Arts
by Meg Brazill

IN THIS ISSUE

Calendar

Focus On Portland, Maine

Holiday Guide

Guide to Schools and Workshops

Art Guide

Exhibition Listings

Classifieds

Art Seen