May / June 2017
Contents
Volume 38, Issue 3
FEATURES
Shaping the Future
By Min Jung Kim • Janie Cohen • Olivier Meslay • John Stomberg
Four Museum Directors Look Ahead
Quirky, Majestic, Tranquil
By Carl Little
Six “Must Visit” Museums
COLUMNS
Letters
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Museum Visit
Jan Howard, RISD Museum
By Sarah Baker
Museums
Museums in Our
Post-Truth Society
By Dan Yaeger
Opinion
Should Museums Be Free?
By Laylah Ali
Collecting
Appraised: Evaluating
Your Options
By Charles Bonenti
Museum Visit
Narayan Khandekar,
Harvard Art Museums
By Christopher Snow Hopkins
Profile
Eugene Lee, Scenic Designer
By Jared Bowen
Film
Floyd Norman:
An Animated Life
By Ethan Gilsdorf
Culture
Training the Eye:
What Doctors Learn from Art
By Emily Avery-Miller
Museums
The Art of Looking
By Cerys Wilson
Destination
Berkshires, MA & Beyond
By Laura Holland
Destination
Portland & Southern Maine
By Anna E. Jordan
REVIEWS & PREVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
Soo Sunny Park: BioLath at Currier Museum of Art by Christopher Volpe
Matisse in the Studio at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Susan Boulanger
CONNECTICUT
Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light at Yale University Art Gallery
by Susan Rand Brown
Suzanne McClelland: Just Left Feel Right at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
by Osman Can Yerebakan
MAINE
Joyce Tenneson’s Maine: Gold Trees at Maine Museum of Photographic Arts
by Carl Little
Dahlov Ipcar: Creative Growth at Ogunquit Museum of American Art
by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Aboudia—Light & Dark at Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston
by Cerys Wilson
Voice of the Woods: Koichiro Kurita at Griffin Museum of Photography
by Cerys Wilson
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Momentum: Works by the University’s Art and Art History Department Faculty at
Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire Museum
by David Raymond
Annette Jaret at 5th Floor Rotunda Gallery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital Arts Program
by David Raymond
RHODE ISLAND
Kate Blacklock: Looking Closely at What is not There at Ilgenfritz Gallery, Newport Art Museum
by Alexander Castro
Trunks and Tales: Stuart Diamond at Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College
by Alexander Castro
VERMONT
Seriously Funny: Ed Koren at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
by Arlene Distler
Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography at Shelburne Museum
by Cynthia Close
Calendar
Destination: Berkshires, MA & Beyond
Destination: Portland & Southern Maine
Summer Getaway Guide
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen
ON THE COVER: Jeff Kahm, Converse #5, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90″. Created for Without A Theme, a showcase of seven premier North American artists and artisans at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center gallery, curated by Tahnee Growingthunder.