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Isabel C. Elson

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Calle Crafts Art from Absence

French photographer Sophie Calle has returned to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to photograph the empty spaces left by the art thefts of March 18, 1990. “Sophie Calle: Last Seen,” is a study of the legacy left by those 13 stolen works.


Artist Spotlight: Nicole Aquillano

Nicole Aquillano, a ceramic artist and former engineer from Fort Point, Mass., creates pieces of pottery inspired by the architecture around her. Using photographs of her favorite buildings, she copies the designs onto her work and fills them in with blue and clear glaze, creating a dripping effect that she feels gives the works a sense of nostalgia