November/December 2018
Contents
Volume 39, Issue 6
Features
A Time of Distress
By Susan Rand Brown
The Surrealists, Their Monsters and Their Legacy
Seeing the Unseen, Hearing the Unheard
By Katy Kelleher
Migration Made Visible at MECA
On the Road
By Molly Zapp
Art Billboards Inspire Political Action
Columns
Publisher’s Letter
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Studio Visit
Jin Hi Kim
By Susan Rand Brown
Studio Visit
Bob Dilworth
By Loren King
Profile
Alice Spencer
By Carl Little
Exhibitions
Industry in a Post-Industrial Era:
Ethan Murrow’s Hauling
By Michelle Aldredge
Exhibitions
A Scream of Freedom:
Mark Hogancamp’s Marwencol
By Michelle Aldredge
Previews
This Season of Light:
Winter Dance Highlights
By Cerys Wilson
Illustration
Who Taught Whom?
Tracing the Ancestry of
Visual Storytelling
By Charles Bonenti
Museums
Tiffany’s Connecticut Connection
By Judy Birke
Theater
The Hitmaker: Diane Paulus’s Decade at the A.R.T.
By Jared Bowen
Reviews & Previews
SPOTLIGHT
New England Now at Shelburne Museum
by Cynthia Close
CONNECTICUT
All Together at Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library
by Jacquelyn Gleisner
Downsized: Small-Scale Sculpture by Contemporary Artists at Bruce Museum
by Jacquelyn Gleisner
MAINE
Cabot Lyford: War, Whales, Whimsy, Wings, Women and Workings at Rachel Walls Fine Art
by Carl Little
Carol Sloane: Contemporary Scrolls at Maine Jewish Museum
by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
In Her Own Image: Self Portraits by Women from 1900 to 2018 at Concord Center for the Visual Arts
by Susan Wadsworth
Tense at The Fort Point Arts Community Gallery
by Stace Brandt
Gone…Fishing at Cape Ann Museum
by Julianna Thibodeaux
Expressions Unbound: American Outsider Art from the Andrew and Linda Safran Collection at Tufts University Art Gallery
by Christopher Capozzola
Measure: Anna Von Mertens at Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Radcliffe Institute
by Corwin Levi
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Modernism and its Legacy at McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University
by Susan Boulanger
RHODE ISLAND
Donnamaria Bruton: Part II, The Later Years at Cade Tompkins Project
by Loren King
21 Months, 147 Miles, Painting the Bay: Lorena Pugh at Providence Picture Frame & Dryden Gallery
by Elizabeth Maynard
VERMONT
Scalar, A Solo Exhibition by Torkwase Dyson at Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College
by Charles Bonenti
In Flanders Fields: A Meditation on War at Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
by B. Amore
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar
Destination: New Hampshire
Holiday Guide
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen
On the cover: Benjamin (B.F.) Perkins, Statue of Liberty, 1989, oil on canvas. Tufts University Permanent Collection: Gift of Andrew and Linda Safran, 2017.024. Photo: Steve Briggs. See page 57.