May / June 2013
Contents
Volume 34, Issue 3
FEATURES
Visiting Masterpieces at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
By Malcolm Rogers
Extraordinary focus exhibitions unite works of art seldom, if ever, seen together.
Burst of Light: Caravaggio and His Legacy, and Doing it with Flair
By Christine Temin
An ardent success story of international institutional partnering.
Museum Expansion—What’s in it for you?
By Laura B. Roberts
Aclose look at what is gained and lost by capital campaigns across New England.
Looking Behind-the-Scenes
By Judith Tolnick Champa
A compilation of eight compelling museum scenarios.
COLUMNS
Letters
FlashPoints
New England Museums, Climate
Change and the Long View
By Elizabeth Wylie
Museums
The Campus Kunsthalle:
a Site of Convergence
By Leonie Bradbury
Opinion
Making the Case for Museums:
More than Dollars & Cents
By Dan Yaeger
Museums
Inventing and Reinventing the
Worcester Art Museum
By Matthias Waschek
Book Review
An Otherworldly Aura
By Carl Belz
Studio Visit
Duets: Annette Lemieux with
Francine Koslow Miller
By Francine Koslow Miller
Museums
Museum Collecting 101 at the
Hood Museum of Art
By Michael R. Taylor
Opinion
Does Education Have a
Bad Name?
By Dawn Salerno
Dispatch
Port of Call: Portugal
By David Bonetti
Architecture
For a Venerable New England
Campus, a Touch of Glass
By James McCown
REVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
Exhibition: Raiding the Rose’s Icebox
On the Matter of Abstraction (figs. A & B); Walead Beshty: Untitled at the Rose Art Museum
by Robert Moeller
Film: Pain(t)ed Justice: The Curious, Troubling Case of Portrait of Wally, by Ethan Gilsdorf
CONNECTICUT
Deb Sokolow / MATRIX 166: Some concerns about the candidate at the Wadsworth Atheneum
Museum of Art by Patricia Rosoff
Greenhouse Effects: Photography by Marjorie Wolfe at the Stevens Gallery, Homer Babbidge
Library, University of Connecticut, Storrs by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
MAINE
TheWilliam S. Paley Collection: ATaste forModernism at the PortlandMuseumofArt
by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Anne Krinsky: Reconfigurations at the Art Complex Museum, Duxbury by Alicia Faxon
JamesMontford, Black Indians in Space at Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston
by Mary BucciMcCoy
Glass Heart (bells for Sylvia Plath) at the DavisMuseum,Wellesley College
by Mary BucciMcCoy
Paul Stopworth: Break Point at the Clark Gallery, Lincoln by Christine Temin
Amy Arbus, After Images at the GriffinMuseum of Photography,Winchester by Deborah Forman
NEW HAMPSHIRE
AbigailAnne Newbold: Crafting Settlement, at the Currier Museum of Art by David Raymond
RHODE ISLAND
Coral Bourgeois at Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence by Anya Ventura
VERMONT
The Mysterious Mind at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chester by B. Amore
Upstairs at West Branch: Galen Cheney and Chris Stearns, West Branch Gallery & Sculpture
Park, Stowe by Meg Brazill
IN EVERY ISSUE
Focus On: The Connecticut Art Trail
Calendar
Guide to Art Schools and Workshops
Exhibitions
Art Seen