July/August 2019
CONTENTS
Volume 40, Issue 4
FEATURES
Escaping the Shadow
By Charles Bonenti
Ida O’Keeffe at The Clark
Revolutionary Rascals
By Kristin Nord
Puppets Speak Out!
A Cultivated Life
By Cynthia Close
Artists and Their Gardens
The Horizontal Hothouse
By Carl Little
Where Craft Became Fine Art
COLUMNS
Publisher’s Letter
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Studio Visit
Tabitha Vevers
By Susan Rand Brown
Studio Visit
Alison Hildreth
By Carl Little
Film
WBCN and The American Revolution
By Ethan Gilsdorf
Profile
Andrew Raftery
By Cerys Wilson
Exhibitions
From Red to Blue:
Seeing the Sixties in Bennington
By Christopher Capozzola
Museums
Van Gogh Returns to
the Wadsworth
By Sarah Baker
Books
Summer Reading
By S. Scarlett Moberly & Charlotte Foote
Previews
Save the Dates: Six Highly Anticipated Exhibitions
By Christopher Volpe
Theater
Shakespeare & Company: The Bard in the Berkshires
By Jared Bowen
New Spaces
The Museum Without Walls: DATMA Arrives in New Bedford
By Don Wilkinson
REVIEWS & PREVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art at Florence Griswold Museum
by Jacquelyn Gleisner
CONNECTICUT
Harmony Hammond: Material Witness, Five Decades of Art at The Aldrich Contemporary
Art Museum by Jacquelyn Gleisner
Deborah Dancy: The Weight of the World at Five Points Gallery
by Jacquelyn Gleisner
MAINE
K. Min: Seoul, New York and Friendship at Caldbeck Gallery
by Carl Little
Another Shore: Paintings by Joel Janowitz at gWatson Gallery
by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
New Horizon: Doug Aitken at The Trustees of Reservations
by Alexander Castro
Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse at MIT List Visual Arts Center
by Heather Martin
deCordova New England Biennial 2019 at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum
by Susan Boulanger
Talk to Me: Contemporary Figurative Sculpture by Beckie Kravetz at Barn Gallery
by Sarah Baker
NEW HAMPSHIRE
James Chase and Loretta Park: Up In Smoke and Racking Up Seconds at The Magenta Suite
by Corwin Levi
RHODE ISLAND
Spell of the Sensuous: Joyce Tenneson and John Paul Caponigro at YJ Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
by Elizabeth Maynard
Questionable Foundations: Per Barclay’s Material Politics at Redwood Library and Athenæum
by Elizabeth Maynard
VERMONT
Coincidence Control: Angus McCullough at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
by Michelle Aldredge
The Human Experience: Rose Umerlik at Northern Daughters
by Molly Zapp
Lyell Castonguay: Tributes at Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts
by Jon Meyer
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar
Destination: Coastal Maine
Destination: Cape Cod
Destination: Cape Ann
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen
ON THE COVER: In response to the Me Too movement, Tabitha Vevers asks the question, Can You See Me Now? (c) 2017, 12 x 12″, oil & gold leaf on mylar. Courtesy of Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA.
See pages 7 and 12.
CORRECTION: On page 7 of the May/June 2019 issue Life/Like: Photographs by Martine Gutierrez at Mount Holyoke
College Art Museum by Laura Holland should be listed under Massachusetts, not New Hampshire.
CORRECTION: On page 14 of the May/June 2019 issue, it should read Twelve New Directors Take the Helm. The list
should include Carey Mack Weber who was named executive director of the Fairfield University Art Museum. She was
previously the interim and assistant director of the museum. She is also the president of the Connecticut Art Trail.