January / February 2012
Volume 33, Issue 2
FEATURES
The First Rule of Mobius Is You Don’t Talk About Mobius By Kris Wilton
Turning thirty-five this year, and in a new location in Cambridge, Mobius Artists Group may be the most important art collective you’ve never heard of.
Learning the Steps By Christine Temin
Looking at Dance/Draw at the ICA and Dawn Kramer’s Body of Water.
What Would Isabella Do? By James McCown
Does the new Renzo Piano-designed expansion at the Gardner Museum live up to the legacy?
A Year in Donations By Christine Temin
Museum directors from across the region discuss their favorite gifts of art in 2011
COLUMNS
Letters
Dispatch
Art New England at Art Basel Miami
Art Buzz
Museum
2012 DeCordova Biennial
By Susan Mulski
Film
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
Reviewed by Ethan Gilsdorf
Looking Back
Milan Kohout: Nooses on Sale
As Told to Julia Kelley
Book Review
Lee Krasner: A Biography
Reviewed by Alicia Faxon
Art Safari
In the Wake of Irene, Vermont Artists Rebuild
By Meg Brazill
Book Review
Monadnock Summer
Reviewed by James McCown
Field of Vision
Made in the UK at the RISD Museum
By Steve Starger
REVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
100 Years at Boston University Art Gallery
by Christian Holland
CONNECTICUT
Patti Smith at the Wadsworth Atheneum
by Patricia Rosoff
Walker Evans at Florence Griswold Museum
by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
Aricoco at Real Art Ways
by Christian Holland
MAINE
Michael Bell-Smith at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art
by Carl Little
Beyond Rugs! at Farnsworth Art Museum
by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Double Solitaire at Davis Museum at Wellesley College
by Alicia Faxon
Ellsworth Kelly at Museum of Fine Art, Boston
by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
John Marin at Addison Gallery of Fine Art, Phillips Academy
by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
Home Sweet Home at Montserrat Gallery
by Evan Smith
Artists’ Books at the Boston Athenaeum
by Susan Mulski
Peter Hutton at Peabody Essex Museum
by Evan Smith
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Donald Saaf at Cynthia Reeves Gallery
by Pam Bernard
RHODE ISLAND
Nostalgia Machines at Brown University
by Steve Starger
Illluminations at Chazan Gallery
by Steve Starger
VERMONT
Maggie Neale at Studio Place Arts
by Marc Awodey
Frank Woods at Gallery at River Arts
by Marc Awodey
IN EVERY ISSUE
Focus On: Southern Vermont
Calendar
Guide to Art Schools and Workshops
Exhibitions
Art Seen
On the cover: Ahmed Alsoudani, Untitled, 2008, five-color hard ground etching with aquatint, spit-bite aquatint and drypoint, 303⁄8 x 267⁄8″. Gift of Alison Hildreth. Courtesy of the Portland Museum of Art and Stephen Petegorsky. See page 40.