November/December 2017
Contents
Volume 38, Issue 6
Features
A Long Look at Time
By Christopher Snow Hopkins
The rise of camera-less photography
Held to Account
By Christopher Capozzola
Art & censorship in New England
Insider/Outsider
By Susan Rand Brown
Takashi Murakami expresses his inner “eccentric”
Columns
Letters
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Studio Visit
Frank Poor
By Liz Lee
Studio Visit
Helena Hernmarck
By Cat Balco
Museums
The Deaccession Gamble: Should the Berkshire Museum Be Selling Its Art?
By Charles Bonenti
From the Collection
A Closer Look at R.B. Kitaj’s Amerika (Baseball)
By Frauke V. Josenhans as told to Sarah Baker
Book Review
Night Stories: Fifteen Paintings and the Stories They Inspired
By Olivia J. Kiers
Profile
Shoshannah White
By Katy Kelleher
Podcast Review
A Piece of Work
By Sarah Baker
Theater
Bedlam in Boston
By Jared Bowen
Music
This Season of Light: Holiday Music Recommendations
By Alexander Castro
Film
Faces Places (Visages Villages)
By Ethan Gilsdorf
Public Art
Beyond Walls
By Cerys Wilson
Reviews & Previews
Spotlight
Toulouse-Lautrec at Three New England Museums by Susan Hodara
CONNECTICUT
Tom Burr/New Haven, or BODY/BUILDING: Pre-Existing Conditions at
Pirelli Tire Building by Jessica Fallis
Black Pulp! at Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University by Judy Birke
MAINE
Alia Ali: Borderland at Emery Community Art Center, University of Maine at Farmington by Carl Little
Richard Keen at Elizabeth Moss Galleries by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Joe Bradley at Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University by Colin Dabkowski
Underground Mural Project at Underground at Ink Block by Julianna Thibodeaux
Chinese Dreams at Bakalar & Paine Galleries, MassArt by Stace Brandt
Claire Ashley: (((CRZ.F.4NRS.AAK))) at 808 Gallery, Boston University by Emily Avery-Miller
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Sam Trioli: Sawdust at Rochester Museum of Fine Arts by Christopher Volpe
Chagoya + Gonzalez III: The Walls Around Fantasylandia at McIninch Art Gallery,
Southern New Hampshire University by Cerys Wilson
RHODE ISLAND
Melvin Edwards: Festivals, Funerals, and New Life at David Winton Bell Gallery by James H. Miller
China Blue: Brain’s Eyes at Warren Alpert Medical School by Alexander Castro
VERMONT
Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros at Hall Art Foundation by Sheryl Trainor
LandARTLab at King Farm by Cynthia Close
In this Issue
Calendar
Destination: Cambridge and Somerville, MA
Holiday Guide
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen
On the cover: Dana Schutz, To Have a Head, 2017,
oil on canvas, 36 x 32″. Courtesy the artist and Petzel Gallery,
New York. Photo by John Kennard. © Dana Schutz. Courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.