May / June 2016
Contents
Volume 37, Issue 3
FEATURES
The Open-Source Museum
By Dominic Green
Yale University Art Gallery’s Collection-Sharing Philosophy
Monuments to Themselves
By Charles Bonenti
The Rise of Private Museums
Changing of the Guard
By Susan Rand Brown, Arlene Distler, Susan Boulanger, Alexander Castro
15 New Directors Join the Scene
COLUMNS
Letters
FlashPoints
Gallery FlashPoints
Museum Visit
Rhona MacBeth
By Sarah Baker
Music
Playing with Older Forms: Hannah Lash Composes Music’s Future
By Susan Rand Brown
Theater
Gender Parity
By Jared Bowen
Profile
Todd Oldham
By Sarah Baker
Museums
Fresh Eye for the Familiar
Museum: The Portland Museum of Art Reimagines Itself
By Carl Little
Culture
The Future of the Past: The U.N. Global Colloquium of University Presidents Meeting at Yale
By Dominic Green
Book Review
Jennifer Mundy’s Man Ray: Writings on Art
By Amy Lilly
Film
Suffering for Art, Suffering for Babies: Dreaming Against the World, haveababy, and the Quest of Local Indie Filmmakers
By Ethan Gilsdorf
Museums
Emerging Trends in the Museum World
By Dan Yaeger
REVIEWS & PREVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
Electric Paris at the Bruce Museum by Tori Rysz
TRIIIBE: same difference at Fitchburg Art Museum by Christopher Volpe
CONNECTICUT
Strata: Photographs by Phyllis Crowley at City Gallery by Tori Rysz
Don Gummer: The Armature of Emotion: Drawings and Sculpture at Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University by Tori Rysz
MAINE
Art of the Hand-Pulled Print: Peregrine Press at 25 at Portland Public Library’s Lewis Gallery
by Edgar Allen Beem
Bernard Karfiol: Ogunquit Master at Ogunquit Museum of American Art by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
Double Visions at The Art Complex Museum by Emily Avery-Miller
Fragile Paper Timeships: Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz, 1979–1989 at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum by Carand Burnet
The State of Clay 2016 at Lexington Arts and Crafts Society by Shirley Moskow
Revolution of the Eye at Addison Gallery of American Art by Christopher Capozzola
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Paradise Found! at Long River Gallery by Olivia J. Kiers
Big, Heavy, Other: Recent Work by Phil Lonergan at Karl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth State University by David Raymond
RHODE ISLAND
Bristol in Mind: Paintings & Works on Paper by Willy Heeks at Bristol Art Museum
by Alexander Castro
Waterscapes: Islamic Architecture and Art from Doris Duke’s Shangri La at Rough Point
by Alexander Castro
VERMONT
3D Digital: Here and Now at Bennington Museumby Arlene Distler
32 Degrees: The Art of Winter at Shelburne Museum by B. Amore
IN THIS ISSUE
Calendar
Destination: Portland & Southern Maine
Summer Getaway Guide
Guide to Schools and Workshops
Art Seen