IRVING HAYNES: ABSTRACTIONS @ NEWPORT ART MUSEUM By Joe Leduc Striving to explain to an interviewer why he continued to paint the same subject, an elderly Josef Albers proudly reached back to the exacting standard set at the beginning of modernism:…
A Q&A WITH YASSY GOLDIE By Christian Holland Images and the persona of Yassy Goldie, the Master Representative for the Golden Jasmine Yeti Dancers, have been rendered ad infinitum by the artist collective The Miracle 5 for the exhibition “”Holy GJYDhad!”…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman So, this is the problem with language. I went to a party the other day where I really only knew the host, everyone else was a stranger. This is how my conversation…
CHARLES A. LOWE @ CAPE ANN MUSEUM By Kate Laurel Burgess Most “Year in the Life of…” exhibitions focus on a person and their discoveries, triumphs and events of a single calendar cycle. Charles A. Lowe: Gloucester 1975, however, focuses on…
GALLERY HOPPING IN NEW ORLEANS By James A. Nadeau This past week I spent some time in New Orleans for a conference. As I like to do whenever visiting a new city (or even an old one) I find the local…
2009 PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART BIENNIAL By Elena Sarni In a striking change of pace from the past nine Biennials, this year’s Portland Museum of Art Biennial jurors accepted about 1/3 of the number of works as their typical shows. In…
