November / December 2012
Contents
Volume 33, Issue 6
Features
Exposing the Landscape By Diana Gaston
This vast exhibition traces RISD’s donation driven,
trendsetting history of photography patronage.
The Pace of Purposeful Collecting By Sarah Baker
Saundra B. and William H. Lane’s discerning collection is a
substantial gift to Boston that keeps on giving.
“Out of Gratitude” By Cate McQuaid
Inter-artist trading is an overlooked form of community mindedness,
personal camaraderie and unique art collection building.
Collecting Indigeneity By Christine Temin
The Hood Art Museum is delving into contemporary qualities of
Aborignal Australian art, in an indigenous collection a mere fifty years old.
Dispatch: documenta By Monroe Denton
Kassel, Germany, home to the “grandest international exhibition” on view every five years, has attracted a record number of visitors in its 2012
iteration, conceptualizing a marriage of time and space.
Columns
Letters
FlashPoints
Interview with Christopher Bedford of the Rose Art Museum
By Robert Moeller
Opinion
Leave City Hall Alone!
By David Bonetti
Book Review
Potential in the Spaces Between
By Susan Mulski
Museums
Paul Klee: Cracking the Code
By Kris Wilton
Museums
A Ferocious Gift
By Stephen Vincent Kobasa
Profile
A Collecting Courtship
By Renée Doucette
Profile
Considering the
Contemporary at the Gardner
By Judith Tolnick Champa
Studio
Deep Time: The Art of
Amy Stacey Curtis
By Craig Stockwell
Destination
Fairfield County
By Rachael Palacios
Reviews
SPOTLIGHT
Ambreen Butt at Carroll & Sons by Christian Holland
CONNECTICUT
Andrew Raftery at Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University by Pat Rosoff
Performance Now at The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery by Pat Rosoff
Matthew Northridge at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum by Christian Holland
MAINE
Alan Bray at The University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor by Carl Little
Beautiful Possibility at Space Gallery by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Three Perspectives at Dedee Shattuck Gallery by Aiden FitzGerald
Os Gêmeos at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston by Elysian McNiff
Julianne Swartz at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum by Evan Smith
Nature Vive and Nature Morte at the Trustman Gallery, Simmons College by Alicia Faxon
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Barbara Swan at the Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire by Christopher Volpe
RHODE ISLAND
Peter Eudenbach at Redwood Library and Athenaeum by Anya Ventura
Jamey Morrill at Yellow Peril Gallery by Renée Doucette
Philip Jameson at Candita Clayton Gallery by Anya Ventura
VERMONT
Oceanic Art and the Performance of Life at the Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont by Caitie Jane Moore
In Every Issue
Calendar
Focus On: Fairfield County
Guide to Art Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibitions
Classifieds
Art Seen
Resources and Listings
Holiday Guide: Art New England’s Gifts of the Season