September / October 2013
Contents
Volume 34, Issue 5
FEATURES
Forward-Looking New England Art Galleries
By Judith Tolnick Champa
Momentum and tenacity exemplify the northeast.
What is a Gallery in Boston in 2013?
By Craig Stockwell
An experienced insider makes sense of the art scene.
Beyond Love: Robert Indiana’s first New York retrospective
is decades overdue.
By Edgar Allen Beem
Emerging from Vinalhaven, Maine, Indiana takes Manhattan
Life in Venice
By Christine Temin
Cuban-born, Boston-based Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons strides into
the Biennale.
Letters
FlashPoints
Galleries
Different Boxes: Connecticut’s Inventive Galleries
By Stephen Vincent Kobasa
Galleries
A Still Lively Experiment
By Doug Norris
Galleries
The George Marshall Store:
New Art in Old York
By Edgar Allen Beem
Museums
Dynamic Invention— The 75th Anniversary of American Abstract Artists
By Bonnie Barrett Stretch
Art in Society
No Walls Around Culture: A Context for Convergence on the Christian Science Plaza, Boston
By Elizabeth Keithline
Rediscovery
In Vermont with Edward Hopper
By Cynthia L. Close
Book Review
John Singer Sargent Watercolors
By Carl Little
Book Review
The Melancholy Art
By Joe Leduc
Destination
The Berkshires
By Charles Bonenti
REVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
Wyeth Vertigo at Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont by Ric Kasini Kadour
CONNECTICUT
Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fischer Landau Collection at the Aldrich Contemporary
Art Museum, Ridgefield by Pat Rosoff
MAINE
Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick
by Ken Greenleaf
Katherine Bradford~~~August~~~ [Title design as given by museum] at Bowdoin College
Museum of Art, Brunswick by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Jason Middlebrook: My Landscape at MASS MoCA, North Adams by Charles Bonenti
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge by Shirley Moskow
Composite Landscapes: Photomontage and Landscape Architecture at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston by David Bonetti
REVEAL at Hallway Gallery, Jamaica Plain by Robert Moeller
NEW HAMPSHIRE
AVA’s Twentieth Annual Juried Summer Exhibition at AVA Gallery, Lebanon by David Raymond
RHODE ISLAND
NetWorks 2011/2012 at Cushing Gallery, Newport Art Museum by Anya Ventura
VERMONT
Gail Salzman, Soundings at Burlington City Arts by Cynthia L. Close
Sam Falls at Burlington City Arts by Ric Kasini Kadour
Best of the North East: Masters of Fine Arts 2013 at Helen Day Art Center, Stowe by Meg Brazill
IN EVERY ISSUE
Calendar
Focus On: The Berkshires
Artist Directory
Art Guide
Exhibitions
Classifieds
Art Seen