With our reviews, we lead the discussion about what is valuable and why.
Our writing team covers exhibitions and performances in Philadelphia and elsewhere. We also cover books and movies. We look, take notes, ask questions and listen. We take pictures, make video and audio recordings. We think about what we see and have opinions. And we write our hearts out, every day.
Corey Qureshi visits Marginal Utility/2C Books for the show, ‘Curio,’ work by Zachary Simonson, which involves a cabinet and drawers filled with or embellished with surreal figures (mushrooms, and things that look like a lamp, or a candle, an empty bell jar) and glyph-like characters that might be from a different language, or from a different planet.
Read MoreLogan Cryer gets immersed in the style, music and “indie sleaze” culture of the early aughts in a show of photographs and memorabilia by Melissa Simpson at Tiger Strikes Asteroid.
Read MoreLane Speidel visits Carl Cheng’s exhibit at ICA several times, taken with the breadth of the artist’s thinking and making in this large retrospective.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper writes about the large career retrospective of Vivian Browne, a leading figure during the activist ’60s and ’70s who is now less well known but should be.
Read MoreBeth Heinly enjoys two exhibits at the PMA and pairs them here – art by two women, Wanda Gág and Christina Ramberg, strong women, strong work.
Read MoreWe are very happy to present this review of ‘Staged: Studio Photographs from the Collection’ by Lindsay Marson, a Moore College of Art and Design student in Chenoa Baker’s Writing for Art and Design class.
Read MoreWe are very happy to present this review of ‘Liisa Nelson: Dreams’ by Magdalene Sanchez, a Moore College of Art and Design student in Chenoa Baker’s Writing for Art and Design class. In their review, Magdalene talks about ceramic art as a way to stay connected to our material world.
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