September / October 2017
Contents
Volume 38, Issue 5
Features
The Art of Survival
By Ethan Gilsdorf
New England’s art house cinemas survive—
and even thrive—in the age of Netflix
Thinking Outside the White Cube
By Arlene Distler • Alexander Castro • Katy Kelleher • Christopher Snow Hopkins
New England Galleries Get Creative to Find New Buyers
Columns
Letters
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Column: Gallery Visit
Matter & Light Fine Art
By Christopher Volpe
Column: Gallery Visit
Piscataqua Fine Arts
By Carand Burnet
Column: Profile
Enrico Riley
By Molly Zapp
Column: Theater
The Musical Shakespeare: Boston Performs Sondheim
By Jared Bowen
Column: Education
Tuned In: The Bob Crewe Foundation Brings Music
to MECA
By Katy Kelleher
Column: Collecting
The Art of Collecting
By Charles Bonenti
Column: Culture
Our Brains on Art: Neuroscientists Investigate
By Emily Avery-Miller
Column: History
Secret Symmetry: Barnett Newman and Henry David Thoreau
By Christopher Snow Hopkins
Column: Education
Art History in the Age of Millennials: Harvard Rethinks Its Approach
By Belinda Rathbone
Column: Film
”Other ways don’t interest me” Frederick Wiseman and 50 years of Documentary Films.
By Ethan Gilsdorf
Column: New Spaces
Highland Center for the Arts
By Molly Zapp
Reviews & Previews
CONNECTICUT
Robert Indiana: One Through Zero at The Glass House by Cat Balco
Eco Visions: Jan Dilenschneider at Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum by Aaron M. Flynn
MAINE
Karen Lederer at Grant Wahlquist Gallery by Carl Little
The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe at Bowdoin College Museum of Art by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Jeannie Motherwell: Pour. Push. Layer. at Rafius Fane Gallery by Susan Rand Brown
Expanding Abstraction: New England Women Painters, 1950 to Now at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum by Susan Boulanger
Nexus at The Mount by Charles Bonenti
Dysgraphia: Katina Huston at Chase Young Gallery by Cerys Wilson
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Andres Institute of Art in Brookline, NH by David Raymond
Christopher Volpe: Loomings at Taylor Gallery, Kimball Union Academy by David Raymond
RHODE ISLAND
New Work by Jack Massey & Barbara Pagh at Hera Gallery by Alexander Castro
Shara Hughes: Pleasure House at Redwood Library & Athenaeum by Alexander Castro
VERMONT
The Strong and the Weak: Patrick Shoemaker at Northern Daughters by Cynthia Close
Susan Osgood: Mapping the Unknown at Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts by Arlene Distler
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar
Destination: Rhode Island
Destination: Greater Hartford, CT
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen
On the cover: Niurka Barroso, The Unsung Song, photography printed on aluminum, 40 x 26″. Courtesy of Art Concept Alternative. Image courtesy of the Boston International Fine Art Show.