November / December 2013
Contents
Volume 34, Issue 6
FEATURES
Actions and Interactions: Ann Hamilton
By Francine Koslow Miller
Expanding the arena for public installation
Black Power: African American Art from 1960s and ‘70s
Los Angeles
By Greg Cook
Re-evaluating an important turning point in recent history
Not Feeling Guilty About Being a Painter
By Edgar Allen Beem
Energizing painting in New England
Rates of Exchange: Museum as Gift
By Stephen Vincent Kobasa
Risking a collection
Columns
Letters
FlashPoints
Giving
Collectdotgive.org: The Gift of Art that Keeps on Giving Back
By Robyn Day
Medical Art
Lifesaving Fashion: The Gift of Designer Medical ID Jewelry
By Robyn Day
Giving and Receiving
Family Baggage
By Nicholas Kilmer
Art Fairs
Anticipating and Planning for Miami—Just Looking?
By Judith Tolnick Champa
Painting
Courbet: Mapping Realism
By Henry McMahon
From the Studio
Making It in Prints
By Judy Ann Goldman
Architecture
Animating a Pediment
By Christine Temin
Art Destination
Portland, Maine
By Daniel Kany
Expansion
The Shelburne Museum
By Ric Kasini Kadour
Reviews
SPOTLIGHT
Picasso: The Vollard Suite at the Hood Art Museum, Dartmouth College
by Kirsten Hoving
CONNECTICUT
Red Grooms: Larger than Life at the Yale University Art Gallery
by Pat Rosoff
Our Fragile Home: Pat Musick and Jerry Carr at the Housatonic Museum of Art
by Stephen Vincent Kobasa
MAINE
Ahmed Alsoudani: Redacted at the Portland Museum of Art
by Edgar Allen Beem
Inaugural Exhibition, Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion at Colby College Museum of Art
by Ken Greenleaf
MASSACHUSETTS
She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by Diana Gaston
B. Lynch: The Red and the Grey at Historic Northampton Museum & Education Center by Alicia Faxon
Restless Creature at Jacob’s Pillow
by Debra Cash
Barbara Bosworth: To Be At The Farther Edge at Mead Art Museum, Amherst College by Charles Bonenti
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Wake Up Call: Recent Work by Raul Gonzalez III and Elaine Bay at Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire
by Christopher Volpe
RHODE ISLAND
Monster Flowers/Leslie Bostrom at The Chazan Gallery, Wheeler School
by Anya Ventura
VERMONT
Vito Acconci: Thinking Space at Middlebury College Museum of Art
by Cynthia Close
Sarah O Donnell: A Visible Night at Burlington City Arts
by Meg Brazill
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar
Focus On Portland, Maine
Holiday Guide
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
Art Seen