Article about H2O Film on Water exhibition, “Now Showing – H2O Film on Water,” The New York Times Magazine by Maura Egan in her blog The Moment, August 7, 2009

Perhaps taking a page from of the Mass MOCA playbook, William B. Ruger recently renovated an enormous old mill he owns in southern New Hampshire into an exhibition-friendly space. Ruger, who retired a few years ago as chairman of the firearms company his father founded, recognized that after decades of renting the building out to light manufacturing, the industry was drying up. This weekend, the refurbished Newport Mill will host its inaugural art exhibition, "H2O Film on Water," which features works — videos, paintings, photographs and site installations — on the theme of the water, from the effects brought on by global changes to the access to safe water in developing countries.

Cynthia Reeves, the director of the Great Rivers Art Institute in Bellows Falls, Vt. (she also owns the Cynthia Reeves gallery in Manhattan), curated works by artists like Doug and Mike Starn, Daniel Wheeler and Anne Lindberg, while Denise Markonish (a former Mass MOCA curator) selected the finalists for a juried video competition. The work spreads out to three other nearby venues: the Great River Arts Institute, the Brattleboro Museum in Vermont and the Spheris Gallery in Hanover, N.H., through Nov. 7. And if you tire of all the highfalutin art, book an appointment to see Mr. Ruger’s formidable car collection, which includes various Rolls-Royces, a Duesenberg and two 1920s fire trucks.

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