September / October 2011
Volume 32, Issue 5
FEATURES
Reviving the Troubled CMCA By Edgar Allen Beem
Two years ago, the Center of Maine Contemporary Art looked as if it had taken its last breath. Then Director Suzette McEvoy stepped in with a new plan.
War of the Roses By Kris Wilton
Even though Brandeis University settled its lawsuit, the public still wants to know, what is the future for the Rose Art Museum?
Profile: Clara Lieu By Lois Tarlow
Her drawings mesmerize, perplex, and leave viewers unsettled, wondering, who is Clara Lieu and what is the mystery behind her art.
Art’s Doctors By Chrstine Temin
If it’s broken, mildewed, torn, or turned a nasty shade of yellow, the Williamstown Art Conservation Center likely knows how to fix it.
Moved by Serendipity By Deborah Forman
At age ninety-four, John Grillo remains active at his easel, still moved by accident and surprise.
COLUMNS
Letters
Art Buzz
Book Review
Nancy Spero
Reviewed by Leah Triplett
Book Review
Gerhard Richter
Reviewed by Evan Smith
Museums
Michael Oatman: All Utopias Fell
by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
Graphics
Art of the Woodcut Novel
by Steve Starger
Art Safari
Easthampton’s Bookbinders
by Carand Burnet
Painting
Pissarro: Lifelong Anarchist
by Christine Temin
REVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
Edward Hopper’s Maine at Bowdoin College Museum of Art
by Carl Little
CONNECTICUT
Michael Donovan at Real Art Ways
by Patricia Rosoff
Roxanne Faber Savage at Silvermine Arts Center
by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
MAINE
Madeleine de Sinéty at Portland Museum of Art
by Carl Little
Paul Oberst at Center for Maine Contemporary Art
by Carl Little
Don Voisine at Icon Gallery
by Ken Greenleaf
MASSACHUSETTS
Sally Moore at Barbara Krakow
by Alicia Faxon
Tim Rowan at Lacoste Gallery
by Shawn Hill
Linda Bond at A.P.E. Gallery
by Sarah Baker
Marianne Mueller at Peabody Essex Museum
by Evan Smith
Alex and Rebecca Norris Webb at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Joanna Rieke
Resa Blatman at Ellen Miller Gallery
by Mary Bucci McCoy
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Kate Emlen at Aidron Duckworth Art Museum
by Christopher Volpe
RHODE ISLAND
Janet Lage at Sarah Doyle Gallery
by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
Susan Freda at Gallery 4
by Steve Starger
Corinna Schnitt at Museum of Art at Rhode Island School of Design
by Eve Perry
VERMONT
Wylie Sofia Garcia at Helen Day Art Center
by Amy Rahn