artscope magazine: January/February 2008 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Office Space North Shore Originals Rania Matar: Lebanon at the crossroads Ad/Agency Sticky Bun City The Museum of Russian Icons One Hundred Years of Art: The Whistler House Museum The Owbow Gallery artSPACE@16 Currents4: Amy Stacey Curtis New Acquisitions 2007 Dennis Lucas: Provincetown artist migrates inland for the season Lean back. Consider it for a moment. Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network(WREN) ART, art, ART, and more Art: Sixteen Boston art dealers go to Art Basel Miami 2007 Edurne Esponda: Codico propio (personal code) Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project The Little Dog Laughed Puppetry in New England: Bread and Puppet Theater, The Tanglewood Marionettes and Dan Butterworth artscope Capsule Previews The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Brian Goslow, managing editor (bgoslow@artscopemagazine.com) Welcome Statement, January/February 2008 Welcome to the first artscope magazine of 2008! Putting together this issue in the middle of the holiday season really brought to light the wide variety of backgrounds of our writers – from art lovers, professionals and teachers to graduate students and those just beginning to make their mark on the cultural landscape - and how amazing it is that we're able to bring them all together in these pages. This issue features the first of a series of international profiles by Rena lindstrom, who has relocated to Mexico from Provincetown. She'll introduce you to Mexican artist Edurne Esponda. Along with filing her story on Gallery Kayafas' first exhibition of the year, Catherine laferriere announced she'd be spending the first part of 2008 in Luxemburg. We'll be taking advantage of this opportunity to bring you reports from these parts of the world. Closer to home, Sandy lashin-Curewitz visits the newly opened Museum of Russian Icons in Central Massachusetts. Susan Schwalb, an artist specializing in silverpoint and metalpoint drawing, gives us a first-hand report on Art Basel Miami and the large number of Boston area galleries who brought New England artists to the attention of some of the world's foremost art buyers. She had way more stories to tell than would fit in these pages; visit artscopemagazine.com for a link to more of Susan's writings from Miami. You can see her work at a two person exhibition with Nan Tull at Boston's Soprafina Gallery, Boston in March. The states of Maine and New Hampshire get extra attention this issue. Elena Sarni engages the "New Acquisitions" show at the Portland Museum of Art and Amy Stacy Curtis' exhibition at Colby College, linda Chestney gives us the scoop on the Mark di Suvero sculpture that'll be greeting Currier Art Museum visitors when it reopens in the spring and Rick Agran profiles New Hampshire's Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network. Our Capsule Preview column includes news of an exhibition lovers of fine glassworks will not want to miss that is currently on display at the Farnsworth Art Museum. Theater lovers should enjoy Chris Caggliano's interview with Douglas Carter Beane, whose latest play "The little Dog laughed" will be performed by the SpeakEasy Stage Company this month. Greg Morell looks at another element of the stage – the fine art of puppetry. Meanwhile, in the midst of her final grad school exams at Northeatern, Roanna Forman profiles Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project. We're happy to announce that Jim Dyment, whose online site vyuMagazine.com has been celebrating the Lowell arts community since 1999, is now writing for artscope. His role of exhibits and gallery manager at the Whistler House Museum of Art made him the perfect choice to tell the story of that institution reaching its 100th anniversary. Recognizing that artscope should remain as fresh as possible, this will be the last issue of our cover contest, which began in March/April 2007. Fear not, artists can still compete for a showcase place in our magazine. Established and emerging artists are encouraged to submit their work for our first centerfold contest, which will showcase an image of installation art in our May/June issue. Full details can be found in our classified section. We appreciate your letters telling us what you like about each of our issues, and, when appropriate, what we missed or got wrong. A few of you pointed out that we had failed to include Susan Post in our review of the MassArt/Fine Arts Work Center MFA Thesis Exhibition in Provincetown and yes, our November/December "Collector's Corner" on Bruce Brown should have noted he brought the first arts education program to Freeport, not the entire state of Maine. We couldn't be happier with the response you gave to our 96-page expanded yearend issue (artscope November/December 2007). A limited number of copies are still available by calling the artscope office at (617) 639-5771; better yet, why not get yourself a year-round subscription for $36? Read the entire article in our magazine pages...