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The 2018-2019 edition of Mizner's Dream is available, featuring an editorial about Max-Steven Grossman.

By The Book

Max Steven Grossman is a celebrated digital photographer. But he's also, in a more unorthodox sense, a librarian. Each photograph is his signature series, Bookscapes, is a collage of related books - extravagant coffee-table tomes, biographies, critical compendiums, art history surveys - that do not exist outsite the artist' imagination. As art professor Natalia Brizuela wrote in a 2017 essay about Grossman's work "The books in every image have never quite been placed in that way except in the virtual space of his computer... When looked at from a close distance, you can see that the each book spine has a distinct image quality, revealing their different provenance, their composite or collage character." 

Read the full text (pages 120-123) here.

Mass Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowships recognize exceptional work by Massachusetts artists across a range of disciplines. These highly competitive awards provide artists crucial validation among their peers and the public. They catalyze artistic advancement and pave the way for creative innovation of enduring cultural value. In 2018 they proudly supported 67 artists with grants totaling $441,000.

The Mass Cultural Council works to elevate a rich cultural life in Massachusetts. They partner with communities across the Commonwealth to expand access, improve education, promote diversity, and encourage excellence in the arts, humanities, and sciences. 

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On View Feburary 9 - November 30, 2019

The Open Museum at Tefen Industrial Parkwill open a comprehensive exhibition of Boaz Vaadia works. The exhibition includes his last
reliefs, made shortly before he died from a terminal disease in February 2017. Vaadia’s journey is one of movement between continents and
cultures. Presenting an exhibition of his sculptures in Israel, at the Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park, offers something of a closure to this path. Vaadia’s sculptures are exhibited in public places and private collections around the world. Only two of his works are publicly displayed in Israel, Asa & Yehoshafat, installed at Tel Aviv’s Independence Park, and Re’uven, in the sculpture garden at the Open Museum, Tefen. Many of Vaadia’s outdoor sculptures are on permanent view in the United States, including at the entrance to the Time Warner Center in Manhattan, near Washington DC and Chicago Illinois, as well as many international temporary public loans over the years, including in Barclay’s Bank HQ Square in London, and more.

Watch the official trailer for Tigran Tsitoghdzyans upcoming documentary American Mirror: Intimations of Immortality HERE

American Mirror: Intimations of Immortality

Oscar-winning screen icon Susan Sarandon and Armenian painter Tigran Tsitoghdzyan discuss time and identity, and how the apparently in conflict values of beauty and aging are perceived in our modern society dominated by social media, as he limns her portrait during a timeless sitting session.

The film reveals how Tigran, a highly dedicated and painstakingly trained craftsman, brings the ancient spirit of the old masters into a unique post-modern hyperrealism deeply interwoven with NYC’s culture and social landscape. Shot over the period of three years, the film takes us on a rare, thought-provoking, timeless reality-and-fiction setting to reveal how one of the most striking artists in recent art history climbs up the art-world ranks on the winding journey to success and recognition.

From producer David Shara and writer-director Arthur Balder, with an original soundtrack by composer Mark Petrie, American Mirror stars Susan Sarandon, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan, Donald Kuspit and Florence Faivre. With the participation of Ashley Hinshaw Grace, Jules Wainstein, Hilary Rhoda, Morgan Shara, Ryan Ross, Sirey Moran.

Museo Boncompangi Ludovisi, Rome | October 11 - December 31, 2018

After the Tribes is a site-specific installation structured around twelve circular paintings on semitransparent PVC that enliven an imposing four-meter-high metal structure. The work relates the story of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, who descended directly from the sons of Jacob to form the Jewish people. Along with research into cartographic materials at the National Library of Israel, Beverly Barkat based her work on these historical studies, concentrating in particular on color and material to conjure a complex universe of symbols and references. The artist’s color palette derives from soil collected from the lands where each of the twelve tribes dwelt, from the natural elements gathered from the earth and from the gemstone representing them, associated with their occupations. All these elements, ground up and then mixed with acrylic paints and pastel pigments, give rise to each individual work, which is therefore unique and unrepeatable.

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August 25 - October 26, 2018

The artist’s objective as a painter is to explore and experiment with color interaction. Rogers utilizes the transparent nature of an oil and wax process to evoke a depth of field with a translucent quality. 

Anne Lilly's kinetic installation Temple of Mnemon is currently on view at The Rose kennedy Greenway, Boston, MA. 

Two works from Kysa Johnson's series The Long Goodbye were recently acquired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.