Profile: Tom and T. M. Nicholas, A Cape Ann Dynasty
“At some point I’m going to make a living as an artist and today’s the day. But I forget exactly…
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10 Emerging New England Artists
A Jury of Nine Selects an Exceptional Ten By: Michelle Aldredge A young artist, fresh out of graduate school, may…
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Indigo Arts Alliance Portland, ME indigoartsalliance.me Carl Little When Marcia and Daniel Minter moved to Portland in 2003,…
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Photography has long been a tool to record the injustices of the past in order to inspire justice in the…
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The 1950s was a leaps-and-bounds decade in American arts and culture. Abstract Expressionism pushed the country into the forefront of…
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Three days before the opening of Avant Gardens at the Newport Art Museum, senior curator Francine Weiss was still patiently…
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Between the Newspaper and the Encyclopedia: A Model of Collaboration Matthew Teitelbaum As we anticipate and plan for the future,…
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For artists in the early stages of their careers, the challenges are plentiful: honing a visual language, closing the gap…
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Art Billboards Inspire Political Action By: Mollly Zapp Christopher Myers, Every Refugee Boat Is A Mayflower, 2018, 8 x 16′….
Read moreTo Pop Up… or Not?
Steve Locke, Untitled (Gentrification), 2017, metal with enamel paint, 24 x 48″ with base. Installation image, Immigrancy, Samsøñ, Boston, MA. Courtesy…
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Alicja Kwade, TunnelTeller (installation view of work in progress), 2018, stainless steel, concrete, natural stone (Macauba azul). Site specific installation…
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Dr. Jackson and Mrs. Lydia Clemmons, owners of the Clemmons Family Farm in Charlotte, VT. Photo: Caleb Kenna. “When tillage…
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The End Depends on the Beginning: Coming Full Circle at Yale Jock Reynolds “The end depends on the beginning.” This…
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10 Emerging New England Artists
For artists today, there are many avenues to success. For emerging artists, this undertaking can at times appear formidable. And,…
Read moreCraft, Chisel, Collect
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” Albert Camus wrote those words…
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Grainy black and white images. A dictator’s military uniform. Stripes that simultaneously evoke the US flag and a government bureaucrat’s…
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Sumin Son, Full Bloom 3, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 32 x 32″. Courtesy of Gallery BOM. NEW HAMPSHIRE / VERMONT…
Read moreCurating New Conclusions
Starr Hardridge, Renewal, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 24″. Courtesy of the artist. Courtney M. Leonard’s installation Sustenance 1,…
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New Britain Museum of American Art. Photo: © P. Vanderwarker. Min Jung Kim. American Art in the 21st…
Read moreQuirky, Majestic, Tranquil
Gathering space of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center. Photo: Sassy Mouth Photography. New England is the home of…
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Resa Blatman, The Water Project / Rising Tide 3 (detail), 2016, oil and latex paint on hand-cut Mylar, 96 x…
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“Artists, the truth-seekers of society, will ascertain quite quickly who this enigmatic and vengeful Donald Trump really is.” Mohamad Hafez,…
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Caleb Neelon, That Was Fun – Let’s Do More mural, 2014, at 564 Main Street, Fitchburg, MA. Image courtesy of…
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Byron Kim, Emmett at Twelve Months #3, 1994, egg tempera on panel, each panel 2 x 2½ x ¾”, overall…
Read moreIs Art Really Just a Luxury?
Jordan Kessler, .44, 2016, archival pigment print mounted to aluminum, 26 x 43″. Courtesy of the artist and Pitch Black…
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Digital rendering of the CMCA exterior. Long-awaited and anticipated, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (CMCA) has opened the doors…
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Word cloud generated via jasondavies.com. It was created by importing quotations from the museum directors in this article, and shows…
Read moreThe New Traditionalists in New England
Dana Levin, Carnations and Japanese Plate, 2008, oil on panel, 11 x 14″. Emilie Lee of Burlington, VT, is a…
Read moreAndres Chaparro: Visual Improvisation
Soul Eyes For The Unmarked Graves from The Unmarked Graves Series, 2012, mixed media, 28 x 36″. John Coltrane, Miles…
Read moreTurning Barriers into Bridges
Taylor Mac in A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: 1770s-1790s, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, 2015, photo credit…
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Paul Rousso, Pop Art, 2015, mixed media on hand sculpted acrylic, 48 x 48 x 7″. Photo: Paul Rousso….
Read moreArt Under the Microscope: Real or Fake
Above: A painting is placed on a Raman microscope for in-situ (non-invasive) chemical analysis of the paint. Below: Removal…
Read moreBlowin’ in the Wind
Echelman’s Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks at the TED Conference’s 30th anniversary, spanning 745 feet from a 24-story building and…
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Michael McKinnell in his studio. Photo: Debbie Hagan. A few years ago, Michael McKinnell happened to be in downtown Rockport,…
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Winter dusk at the Glass House, New Canaan, CT. Photo: © Robin Hill. Courtesy of the Glass House. Once upon…
Read moreGeometric Breathing
Jonathan Prince, Southern Remnant (at Christie’s Sculpture Garden, 535 Madison Avenue, NY), 2012, CorTen and high-chromium stainless steel, 60 x…
Read moreVisual Weimar, 1919–1933
Max Beckmann, Die Enttäuschten I, 1922, lithograph, 19 1/3 x 14 4/5″. Courtesy of the Sabarsky Foundation. Times of great…
Read moreDan Gosch and Marc Kehoe: Two Painters
Dan Gosch, untitled, 2014, oil on panel, 9½ x 12″. Poet Stevie Smith wrote, “The pleasures of friendship are exquisite.”…
Read moreSumner Winebaum: Bits and Pieces in Bronze
Sumner Winebaum, Falling in Love, 2005, bronze, 9 x 12 x 12″. Photo: David J. Murray. Sumner Winebaum’s sculptures are…
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Dudley Zopp, Erratics, installation view, articulated builder’s paper, laminated tissue, collaged text, shellac, wood bench; wall-mounted Erratic: 127 x 131…
Read moreOdd and Unbound: Altered Books
Adele Outteridge, Vessels, 2004, Plexiglas with linen thread and binding. © Adele Outteridge. Once upon a time, a turn of…
Read moreChristo: Rapt in Public
Christo in his studio with a preparatory collage for Over The River, 2011. Photo: Wolfgang Volz. © 2011 Christo….
Read moreEllsworth Kelly Looks at Monet
Top: Claude Monet, The Water-Lily Pond, c. 1918–19, oil on canvas, 28 ¾ x 41 3/8″. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris,…
Read moreMADE IN PRISON
WHEN TERRY MOORE, fine furniture maker in northern New Hampshire, picked up the phone in March 2009, he didn’t expect…
Read moreConsenses: Festival of the Senses
Sally Taylor. Photo: Heidi Legg. SALLY TAYLOR HAS ORGANIZED an epic game of artistic Telephone. The result, Consenses, a wildly…
Read moreJAZZ IS PLAYING AT BATES COLLEGE
Wadsworth A. Jarrell, James Carter Trio, 1999, acrylic on paper, 11 x 14″. On loan from Eric Key. IF AN…
Read moreIn Memoriam Patricia Rosoff [1949–2014]
Patricia Rosoff (1949–2014). Image courtesy of the Kingswood Oxford School. We never met face to face. Yet we had many…
Read moreNow What? Plotting the Future
Interior view of the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Photo: Dan Gair, Blind Dog Photo, Inc. Museums have developed enormously…
Read moreWEARABLE ART OUTSIDE THE URBAN CENTER PART 1
FASHION SPEAKS A VISUAL LANGUAGE through patterns, textures, color and shape, with which we are all accustomed. When wearable materials…
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FASHION FOREFRONT
WHEN “CRAFT THE LEATHER” selected RISD designer Diana Wagner as one of nine students sponsored to travel through Tuscany to…
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