July/August 2018
Contents
Volume 39, Issue 4
Features
Growing Culture
By Cynthia Close
The Farm-to-Art Movement in New England
Homer’s Camera
By Carl Little
How the Master Painter Used Photography
Painting Provincetown
By Susan Rand Brown
Helen Frankenthaler and Her Muse at Land’s End
A Walk in the Park
By B. Amore
18 Places Where the Art is Monumental and Nature Provides the Frame
Columns
Publisher Letter
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Studio Visit
Brenda Bettinson
By Carl Little
Studio Visit
Rodrigo Nava
By Arlene Distler
Profile
Anna Schuleit Haber
By Christopher Volpe
Curator’s Eye
A Closer Look at Florine Stettheimer’s Beauty Contest:To the Memory of P.T. Barnum
By Erin Monroe in conversation with Sarah Baker
Dance
Unpacking Jacob’s Pillow: What the Newly Opened Trunks Reveal about the Company’s Past
By Cerys Wilson
Books
Summer Reading
By Olivia J. Kiers
Previews
Save the Dates: Six Highly Anticipated Museum Exhibitions
By Julianna Thibodeaux
Culture
Bennington’s Renewal: Banking on an Arts Legacy to Lift a Region’s Quality of Life
By Charles Bonenti
Book Review
Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World
By Susan Boulanger
Theatre
Broadway Next Door: Reagle Music Theatre Celebrates 50 Years
By Jared Bowen
Colors
Red: The Attention Demanding Color
By Dian Parker
Reviews & Previews
Spotlight
ICA Watershedat Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina by James McCown
CONNECTICUT
My Vicious Throbbing Heart at Franklin Street Works by Jacquelyn Gleisner
Lesley Dill: Wilderness at Mattatuck Museum by Cat Balco
MAINE
Kathleen Galligan: Immersions at Littlefield Gallery by Carl Little
Pierre Monteux School and Music Festival by Carl Little
Steve Bartlett: Works from 2013-2018 at University of Maine Museum of Art by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Sculpting with Air: Ian McMahon and Jong Oh at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum by Emily Avery-Miller
Breath and Matter: Artists and Poets at Boston Sculptors Gallery by Julianna Thibodeaux
Anne Roecklein: Scapes at Outside by Benjamin Cassidy
Judy Pfaff: × × × ÷ ÷ ÷ ≡ + + +, at GAA Gallery by Sarah Baker
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Cindy Rizza + Leah Giberson at Nahcotta by Michelle Aldredge
RHODE ISLAND
Betwixt and Between: Photography, Time and Place at Jamestown Arts Center by Channing Gray
VERMONT
The Safety of Objects at The Bundy Modern by Sarah Baker
Sarah Meyers Brent: In the Garden at Catamount Arts by Alexander Castro
Vermont International Museum of Art+Design by Molly Zapp
In this Issue
Calendar
Destination: Coastal Maine
Destination: Cape Cod, MA
Destination: Cape Ann, MA
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen
On the cover: Midnight at the Oasis, 2017, C-Print on Dibond, 15 ½ x 11″. Courtesy of the artist, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY and The Bundy Modern, Waitsfield, VT.
New Hampshire-born Jessica Craig-Martin is an event photographer for Vanity Fair and The NewYorker.“Midnight at the Oasis is titled for the ’70s hit by Maria Muldaur. It was taken at a private party at a nightclub in New York. The party was full of heiresses. I thought of the ladies room as an oasis; a calm respite from the dance floor.” writes Craig-Martin.