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

Sticky Bun City William Henderson Firehouse No. 13 41 Central Street Providence, Rhode Island Through January 25 The number of people who associate sex with the word “indulgence” is what surprises artist Erin Murphy the most about the pieces comprising the exhibit “Sticky Bun City.” Food? Yes. People indulge in food all of the time and, in fact, it is food and the many ways in which we take advantage of its availability that Murphy chose to represent in her multimedia contribution to the exhibit. But sex? It’s a far cry from the conversation that started her thinking about what has become “Sticky Bun City.” That conversation took place earlier this year at a pool party. Murphy, 27, was asked to remember the name of the “shop in the mall that sells those sticky cinnamon buns,” said Murphy during a mid-December telephone interview. The exhibit hadn’t yet opened and was far from finished. At the time, she was trying to figure out where to buy a commode and how best to erect a bathroom stall in the center of the gallery in which guests could scrawl their secrets and contribute. A giving in, so to speak, to the desire to share their souls. “They thought the name was Sticky Buns,” she said. [Of course, the “store” is really Cinnabon.] “And I thought, hmm, that would be a fun theme for an art show.” Read the entire article in our magazine pages...