artscope magazine: March/April 2009 Welcome Statement: Brian Goslow, managing editor Letters to the Editor Master of Reality: Kanishka Raja, Angela Dufresne, Chie Fueki, Francesca DiMattio and Matthew Day Jackson BEBE BEARD: WITH OR WITHOUT YOU LAURA SCHIFF BEAN: JOURNEY ARTIST BIO: KATHY HALAMAKA AND GARY DUEHR SIDNEY HURWITZ: FIVE DECADES BÉATRICE DAUGE KAUFMANN SHELTER: UNIQUE VISIONS OF A UNIVERSAL SUBJECT THROUGH ARTIST'S BOOKS MASKS: THE MAGIC OF TRANSFORMATION KAYROCK & WOLFY: WHEN ART IMITATES LIFE IMITATION ART SHEPARD FAIREY: SUPPLY AND DEMAND AZ FINE ARTS PULL OF GRAVITY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ELIJAH GOWIN AND EMMET GOWIN JUDITH SOWA: VERMEER REVISITED DEREK HARDING AND JASON GREEN NEW/NOW THE AMALGAMATE: NICOLE DUENNEBIER RENEWAL: PRINTMAKERS FROM THE NEW NORTHERN IRELAND MORE THAN BILINGUAL: WILLIAM CORDOVA AND MAJOR JACKSON GLASS MASTERS LUX PERPETUA: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOSEPHINE SACABO PEARLS OF COTUIT: A COMMUNITY CELEBRATES ITS ARTISTS WHAT CAN A WOMAN DO? WOMEN, WORK, AND WARDROBE 1865 - 1940 CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF CASA DE LA CULTURA/CENTER FOR LATINO ARTS REDISCOVERING ART WITH KRISTINA BIRD SURVIVING IN A DOWNTURN

PEARLS OF COTUIT: A COMMUNITY CELEBRATES ITS ARTISTS Taylor M. Polites Cahoon Museum of American Art 4676 Falmouth Road Cotuit, Massachusetts;/br> March 10 through April 26 To help celebrate the Cahoon’s 25th year, Dr. Robert L. Gambone, the museum’s director, has organized a different sort of oyster festival. Gambone put on his waders, but rather than search the seedbeds of Cotuit Bay for pearls, he scoured the local arts community — and pulled up some real treasures. “In this tiny, out-of-the-way little village,” Gambone explained, “there is an interesting community of artists, each one accomplished in their own way.” These artists are an important part of the museum’s success. “Because we are a small, stand-alone museum, we have a particular responsibility to reach out to the local artists here. And they are very supportive of our institution.” This show, he stressed, was a way to both thank those artists for their support and to highlight the gathering of talented artists in the Barnstable area of Cape Cod. “When I began to look around, I found artists who are incredibly accomplished, incredibly diverse, some with New England wide reputations, some on the cusp of having arrived.” To narrow the selection process, Gambone spoke with each artist, visited them in their studios, and looked at their body of work, finally choosing seven artists. “It was pretty hard to narrow the show to about five works per artist. I wanted to give a fair;/p> Read the entire article in our magazine pages...