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An ever-expanding premier source for art and culture, Artscope Magazine encourages discourse and public engagement through timely, journalistic coverage of galleries, museums, exhibitions, artists, and communities. Artscope covers a wide spectrum of arts and highlights both national and international artists, who show in the New England and beyond. For the distribution site nearest you, please email us at [email protected].

Today is the last day to see the “Recycled: Trash and Treasure: Rediscovered” exhibition at the Menino Arts Center, 26 C...
07/25/2025

Today is the last day to see the “Recycled: Trash and Treasure: Rediscovered” exhibition at the Menino Arts Center, 26 Central Avenue, Hyde Park/Boston, Massachusetts, which will be open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The show features 67 works by 43 artists that fills the Menino Center’s second-floor corridors and spacious gallery. If you can’t make it, visit the show digitally through its 3-D gallery at https://www.hpaa-mac.org/exhibits/.

Carolyn Wirth reviews the show and profiles several of the artists in our July/August 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available at partnering locations throughout New England or via online access at https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/06/turning-trash-into-treasure/

TONIGHT! Ginny Zanger presents “Partnering with the Elements,” an artist talk and demonstration, at 5:30 p.m. at Cove Ga...
07/24/2025

TONIGHT! Ginny Zanger presents “Partnering with the Elements,” an artist talk and demonstration, at 5:30 p.m. at Cove Gallery, 15 Commercial St., Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

“I am an environmental artist. My work celebrates the beauty of what remains on our shores, under our oceans, and in our forests. Working with water media to evoke the gorgeous textures and deep, mysterious forces of our planet, I have developed innovative techniques that recreate the flows and fissures of the natural world: ocean currents, shifting sands, volcanic mountains. My series of dunescapes and underwater landscapes are odes to the glories of the natural world, while hinting at our fragile future. The work speaks to the tension between the seemingly eternal forces of nature and the human behavior that threatens to destroy them.”

Learn more at https://www.covegallery.com/Cove-Gallery-Artists/39/Ginny-Zanger/ -Zanger

“Sean Landers: Lost at Sea”, on view through December 29 at the Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave., Newport, Rhode Isl...
07/23/2025

“Sean Landers: Lost at Sea”, on view through December 29 at the Newport Art Museum, 76 Bellevue Ave., Newport, Rhode Island, opens with Landers’ oil painting “Lighthouse Keepers in Shadows” mounted at the entrance to a narrow corridor. Like a preamble for what is to come, this virtually black and white painting sets the tone for the entire exhibition, reviewed by Heather Stivison in our 117th issue.

“Shipwreck I” and “Shipwreck II”, a pair of hauntingly dark oil paintings, each a full eleven feet wide fill the entire right wall. Our eyes take a moment to adjust, to be able to make sense of the chaotic boulders strewn across what appears to be the bottom of the ocean floor. They call to mind the Percy Bysshe Shelley sonnet, “Ozymandias,” which speaks of the fleeting nature of human lives and work.

“In each of these dark paintings, the blackened silhouette of a ship’s mast is barely discernable in the distance. We are looking at the sunken remains of tall ships that were lost at sea.”

Read Stivison’s complete review in the July/August 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available in print form at partnering museums, galleries and art centers throughout New England and via purchasing online access at https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/06/seaworthy-in-newport/

Inspired by “their appreciation of the natural world, and the need to protect our fragile home,” acrylic and oil environ...
07/23/2025

Inspired by “their appreciation of the natural world, and the need to protect our fragile home,” acrylic and oil environmental painter Heather Stivison and watercolor artist Lisa Goren present “Duets: Two Artists and Our Blue Planet” from July 11 through August 15 at the Marion Art Center, 80 Pleasant St., Marion, Massachusetts, perfectly located between Route 6 and Buzzards Bay. “The luminous quality of the work reflects a fascination with water, with ice, and with observed patterns on earth.” The MAC is open Wednesday through Friday from 1-5 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The artists will give a gallery talk on Saturday, August 2 at 11 a.m.

Read more July/August 2025 “Capsule Previews” by managing editor Brian Goslow here: https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/07/capsule-previews-23/

This is the final week to see the “Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann” exhibition that closes this S...
07/21/2025

This is the final week to see the “Famous & Family: Through the Lens of Trude Fleischmann” exhibition that closes this Saturday, July 26, at the Fairfield University Art Museum, Bellarmine Hall, 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield, Connecticut.

“This landmark exhibition highlights Fleischmann’s journey, from her formative years in interwar Vienna to her creative resurgence in the United States following her emigration in 1939,” writes Lexie Gondek, reviewing the show in our latest issue. “Featuring over 100 gelatin silver prints — along with an array of rare memorabilia, including postcards, calendars, books and magazines — the show offers an intimate and expansive look into the evolution of her artistic world and remarkable life. This is Fleischmann’s first solo exhibition in the United States.”

The Fairfield University Art Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m.-4 p/m. with extended hours on Thursday till 8 p.m.

Read Gondek’s complete review in the July/August 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available in print form at partnering museums, galleries and art centers throughout New England or purchase online access at artscopemagazine.com.

“From the Vault: Collecting Tapestries at the Worcester Art Museum” is “monumental in scale, immensely detailed, and ver...
07/18/2025

“From the Vault: Collecting Tapestries at the Worcester Art Museum” is “monumental in scale, immensely detailed, and very labor-intensive objects” writes Beth Neville, reviewing the show that ends July 27, in our July/August 2025 issue. The exhibition includes many examples of the craft, including Coptic Egypt, Peru, and Medieval Norway. “For fiber artists and lovers of the era of Knights of the Round Table this is a must-see exhibition because, all too soon, the tapestries will again be placed back in their protective environmental vault, not to be seen again for years.”

Read Neville’s complete review in the July/August 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available in magazine form at museums, galleries and art centers throughout New England and by purchasing online access at
https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/06/immensely-detailed-labor-intensive/

“Flowers, plants, botanicals,” our July 17 Artscope email blast! features “Flora,” on view through Sept. 7 with a recept...
07/17/2025

“Flowers, plants, botanicals,” our July 17 Artscope email blast! features “Flora,” on view through Sept. 7 with a reception on Aug. 9 at Arts League of Lowell - ALL in Lowell, Massachusetts; “Cross-pollination,” works by Dina Andretta, Sasha Azbel, Clementine Cavanagh, Kristen Kieffer, Nicole Kiernan, Sarah Steedman, Cathy Rees, and Robin Reynolds, opening this Saturday and running through Aug. 17 at George Marshall Store Gallery in York, Maine; and “Ephemeral Grace: Botanicals by Deb Ehrens,” open through Oct. 26 at Highfield Hall and Gardens in Falmouth, Massachusetts.

Our latest blast! is sponsored by South Coast Artists, East Boston Artists Group, Gillian Frazier, League of NH Craftsmen, Art Works for Humanity, The Guild of Boston Artists, Boston University and Artscope Online.

Read the July 17 Artscope Magazine email blast! here: https://conta.cc/3UbS9AT

Shrink-wrapped copies of the July/August 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine include the brochure/map for this weekend’s “23...
07/17/2025

Shrink-wrapped copies of the July/August 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine include the brochure/map for this weekend’s “23rd Annual South Coast Artists Open Studio Tour” where 75 artists invite you to visit their workspaces for a “Breath of Fresh Air” on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. in Tiverton & Little Compton, Rhode Island and Westport & Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

If you can’t make it this time around, a second “South Coast Artists Open Studio Tour” takes place on the weekend of August 16 and 17. Learn more at southcoastartists.org

Between temperatures being at least 10 degrees cooler than the rest of New England and the Bates College Museum of Art h...
07/16/2025

Between temperatures being at least 10 degrees cooler than the rest of New England and the Bates College Museum of Art hosting its “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing” exhibition through October 1 at its Olin Arts Center, you have good reason to ask Siri to send you northbound to Lewiston, Maine.

J.M. Belmont reviews the exhibition in our latest issue:

“One of the strongest pieces on show, “Ink Blot and Sigmund Freud,” 1993, pen and ink on paper, gives an inventive portrait of the wizened, avuncular father of psychoanalysis. Tempering the usual pitfalls of outrageous physical exaggeration that plagues most caricature, Steadman instead represents Freud almost as a genie emerging from his lamp. The hyper-detailed linework is so fluid that it’s difficult to tell where the great man ends and his pattered chair begins; both congeal into long ropes of black ink that puddle as a hole on the ground. Steadman shades the drawing with a subtle orange-red reminiscent of peach skin.”

You can read the complete review in our July/August 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available at partnering museums, galleries and art centers throughout New England and via online access at https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/06/and-another-thing/

Joe Diggs, whose “Evolving Circles” exhibition opens this Friday July 18, with a 6 p.m. reception at the Provincetown Ar...
07/16/2025

Joe Diggs, whose “Evolving Circles” exhibition opens this Friday July 18, with a 6 p.m. reception at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 460 Commercial St., Provincetown, Massachusetts, said that the show is a retrospective of work created between 2016 and 2025. “There are circles in all my pieces. In college and grad school, I was always trying to figure out how to put a circle inside a square.” And that quest turned into the basis for some of his compositions, writes Lee Roscoe, previewing the exhibition (and one that opens later in the month at Berta Walker Gallery) in our latest issue:

“Art is what Diggs does and who he is. Infused with the comforting woodsy scent of linseed oil, his studio, that he built himself, pulses with creative energy. He preps a piece by taking notes, making drawings, then painting. (He’s been a bit distracted from the persistence of work this year by prepping for PAAM and as the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s artist of the year.)

“I’ve moved in many different directions,” Diggs elaborated, both with his art and as a human being. His attitude is, “Let’s open this door. And see where it goes.” He tries to paint what is true for who he is and says that since “not all my experiences are the same,” the subject varies according to what inspires him now. “If you live in the moment, the moment has its own reality, and you jump into it. You don’t let filters block the flow. Art is about making decisions, but if you are controlled by filters, you’ve lost.”

The exhibition runs through September 7; read Roscoe’s complete preview and profile of Diggs in the July/August 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available in magazine form at partnering museums, galleries and art centers and via online access at https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/06/a-cape-cod-original/

Through meditation, Laura Klimenchenko finds a glimpse of the essence of being, manifesting it through colors, shapes, a...
07/15/2025

Through meditation, Laura Klimenchenko finds a glimpse of the essence of being, manifesting it through colors, shapes, and textures that create a symbiotic dance between the quiet conscious mind and the intangible that prevails in her work, more recently manifested for “Becoming Nothing,” a collection of her paintings and pastels arising on view through August 7 at Gary Marotta fine art g-1, 162 Commercial St., Provincetown, Massachusetts. “To know the Self, you must let the unknown be known. Knowing is trusting, trusting is allowing, allowing requires nonjudgement, nonjudgement leads to presence. Your presence is necessary,” she said. “These have become guiding principles in my work, and it is with full presence that I strive to approach painting. In that presence there is freedom and discovery.”

Read more of managing editor Brian Goslow’s “Capsule Previews” for July/August 2025 at https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/07/capsule-previews-23/

“Margaret Sheldon and Meghan Weeks: A Shared Space: One Studio, Two Views” opens this Thursday, July 17, at Copley Socie...
07/15/2025

“Margaret Sheldon and Meghan Weeks: A Shared Space: One Studio, Two Views” opens this Thursday, July 17, at Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury St., Boston, Massachusetts. The show is previewed by Isabel Barbi in our latest issue:

“Despite their differences in painting styles, they work together in a studio at the SOWA Artists Guild at 450 Harrison Ave. in SoWa Boston, throughout the space and don’t break the room into two. The space allows their work to be perfectly complementary. “When visitors come into our studio, they are often surprised to learn that there are two artists working here,” Sheldon said. “It's not uncommon for them to ask if we each have one wall on which to hang our work. It's a simple answer, ‘nope.’ Our wall space is limited, and we happily hang a new piece wherever we can. It's not something we worry about.”

Their paintings showcase all the beautiful seasons in New England and farther — mainly Europe, and yes, including winter. It’s frigid, and it's damp; it's delicate and aesthetically pleasant. The show continues through August 16; the CoSo Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and by appointment.

Read Barbi’s complete review in the July/August 2025 issue of Artscope Magazine, available at partnering galleries, museums and art centers throughout New England and via online purchase at https://artscopemagazine.com/2025/06/true-new-englanders/

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