Studio Visit: Jessica Scriver
Jessica Scriver’s home studio in Charlotte, Vermont, looks west to a stunning view of the Adirondack Mountains beyond Lake Champlain….
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Aerosol III: Graffitti’s Family Tree
A student of art history may learn that Claude Monet was a founder of the mid-19th century painting style Impressionism…
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Ally Paladino
As we ponder the swiftness of life’s current, we reflect on Carver’s prose. What does it mean to feel oneself beloved?…
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Plastic Bag Love
If you hate disposable plastic bags as much as this writer, it’s difficult to share that artist Robin Frohardt has…
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“Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round”
“Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round” Recalls Little-Known Protest in Summer of 1960 Summertime amusement parks filled with roller coasters,…
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Wiley Holton
I first met Wiley Holton in her lovely home studio joined by her two cats; she is an early career…
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american / woman project
Betsy Miller’s american / woman project begins with a fundamental question: what does it mean to be a woman? Doubling…
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Shey Rivera
When I reached out to arrange a studio visit with Shey ‘Ri Acu’ Rivera Ríos, they remarked but “I’m not…
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Going Solo: Painting Downeast
This multi-installment feature by artist Robert Beck shares what he’s learned painting by himself along the coast of Downeast Maine….
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Jeff Ostergren
Visiting Jeff Ostergren’s studio, this writer was treated to a healthy lunch made from New York Times recipes. Some of…
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Kevin Xiques
“We saw the pond where Monet painted the waterlilies and for some reason, I can’t tell you why, it changed…
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Community Mural Magic
Since Art New England magazine last checked in with the powerhouse Afro-futuristic creative team known as Juniper Creative Arts in…
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Exploring Nan Goldin’s Life and Art
For Nan Goldin, whose intimate images of her life among Boston’s drag queens in the 1970s helped launch the “Boston…
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Potent Venetian Red
Color can transport us to other times and places, such as glimpses into the Italian Renaissance. In the 15th century,…
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Peter Rudolph
When a visitor asks Peter Rudolph to see his studio, the painter walks to a side door on the back…
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The Complicated Beauty of Truth-Telling: New Haven’s NXTHVN Announces 2022–’23 Fellows and Curators
“Blue chip” artist Titus Kaphar and his brother were on a trip to New York City to see his acclaimed…
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Supernatural Blue
“I am seeking for blue all the time.” —Vincent Van Gogh When we think of the sky and the sea,…
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Warren Kimble
When meeting Warren Kimble, his connection to his art is crystal clear, as is the light that shines from his…
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The Wolf Kahn Foundation Refines its Focus
“I am always trying to get to the danger point in color.” –Wolf Kahn Balancing life and work presents unique…
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Catherine Opie, The Land in Which We Live
“On behalf of the Land and everything living on it, new image wars must be waged.” – Lucy Lippard Internationally…
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Remixing Museum Spaces
The Colored Museum, a performance originally written by Tony Award-winner George C. Wolfe, is being revitalized by Boston-based director/dramaturg/educator Pascale…
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History
Charles Giuliano’s Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 to 2020, An Oral History (Berkshire Fine Arts LLC, 2021) is a…
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Weber Burnishes FUAM’s Reputation
Organized, Pragmatic, Collaborative. Creative. The accolades for Carey Mack Weber, the Frank and Clara Meditz Executive Director of the Fairfield…
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Tasha Chemel
Tasha Chemel is sitting at her potter’s wheel in the middle of a two-car garage on a winding, residential road…
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Iphigenia: New Opera Reimagines Ancient Myth
As theaters reopen, few stage productions are as eagerly anticipated as the new opera by jazz luminaries Wayne Shorter and…
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A Taste of Home Cooking
If you looked to the kitchen for consolation during the pandemic, you were not alone. Poet and art critic John…
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In the Stillness, Art and Spirituality Emerge
In the Bible is the expression, “Be still, and know that I am God.” This state of stillness, of connecting…
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Shakespeare’s Summer of Enlightenment
As we step outside our front doors with some semblance of confidence, and the ache in our upper arm now…
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The Joy of People and “World Repair”
How surprised was I to start my new job at the Williams College Museum of Art at the start of…
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Black Joy and Resistance
Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, the Harlem Cultural Festival brought large, joyful crowds and…
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Six Not to Miss
This summer and fall, several prominent regional galleries and museums are celebrating the return of “art in person” with exhibitions…
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Ms. Independent
Museums and galleries have long hired independent curators for a multitude of purposes from hands-on exhibit installer to art advisor….
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Paying Artists, Equitably
Under the banner “Working Artists and the Greater Economy” (W.A.G.E.), a group of New York City-based artists, performers, and independent…
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Oliver Barker
There’s a distinct rumble in the air—and by the sea. On the peninsula of Cape Ann, the rumble is stronger…
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Behind the Scenes, New England’s Museums Burnish Their Collections
Jacob Lawrence’s print series The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture is now part of the collection at Colby…
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Studio Visit: Matt Neckers
Tucked on a mountain in the wilds of Eden, VT sits the home and studio of one of New England’s…
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Studio Visit: Eric Aho
Vermont’s Saxtons River rises in wetlands on the eastern slopes of the southern Green Mountains. Thirty-five miles north of Brattleboro,…
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Inside Kevork Mourad’s Memory Gates at College of Holy Cross
You arrive in a new place and step through a grand archway. You recognize this place, perhaps from what you…
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Studio Visit: Paul Bowen
To reach his studio in Williamsville, VT, Paul Bowen walks a short, grassy passage between a white clapboard farmhouse and…
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5 Art Books to Start the New Year
Actress Emma Thompson once said, “I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your…
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