March / April 2016
Contents
Volume 37, Issue 2
Features
The New Traditionalists in New England
By Dominic Green
The Classical Realist Revolution
Artists as Philanthropists
By Charles Bonenti
Protecting Their Visual Arts Legacies
Rebranding
By Susan Rand Brown
Millennial Artisans Build on Hartford’s Legacy
COLUMNS
Letter
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Rhode Island Studio Visit
David Barnes
By Alexander Castro
Book Review
Mark Pasnik, Michael Kubo and Chris Grimley’s Concrete Architecture and the New Boston
By James McCown
Public Art
The New Wave of Public Art:
Art on the Marquee
By George Fifield
Theater
The Next Stages for
Boston Theater
By Jared Bowen
Film
Intellectually Curious, Savvy and Hungry: The Burgeoning New England Film Fest Scene Comes into Its Own
By Ethan Gilsdorf
Festivals
Flash Forward Festival
By Sarah Pollman
Profile
Bobbi Gibb: Contemporary Artist, Renaissance Woman
By Rita A. Fucillo
Reviews & Previews
SPOTLIGHT
Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe at Currier Museum of Art by Christopher Volpe
CONNECTICUT
Victor Vasarely: The Absolute Eye at Mattatuck Museum by Rachael Palacios
In the Lion’s Den: Daniel Macdonald, Ireland and Empire at Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum,
Quinnipiac University by Rachael Palacios
MAINE
Cole Caswell: Patterns of Aggression at Maine Museum of Photographic Arts by Carl Little
Thomas Crotty and His Circle at Thos. Moser Showroom & Outlet by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera at Tufts University Art Gallery by Sarah Baker
On Exactitude in Science at School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by Sarah Baker
Alchemy of the Soul: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons at Peabody Essex Museum by Jeb Sharp
Question Bridge: Black Males at Deerfield Academy and University Museum of
Contemporary Art by Bonnie Barrett Stretch
NEW HAMPSHIRE
65 Groundswell at Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire by David Raymond
RHODE ISLAND
Mary Dondero: Small Points in Time at Newport Art Museum by Alexander Castro
Dead Animals, or the curious occurrence of taxidermy in contemporary art at David Winton Bell Gallery by Alexander Castro
VERMONT
Triangle, Circle, Square and Conceal/Reveal at Overnight Projects by B. Amore
Oliver B. Schemm at Castleton Downtown Gallery by B. Amore
IN THIS ISSUE
Destination: Connecticut Coast
Calendar
Artist Directory
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Guide
Exhibition Listings
Classifieds
On the cover: Aperlaï, Geisha Lines, Fall 2013, leather. Courtesy of Aperlaï. Photo: Jay Zukerkorn. On view in Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH.