Lane Timothy Speidel experiences music in the form of video/audio works by Toshi Makihara and says about the work, “These are a series of experiments strung together by that fact of percussion. It is a beautiful tumble down a glorious hole, where anything becomes possible. Although many of these are everyday materials – don’t be fooled – Makihara is extremely talented and practiced at finding music in hidden places.”
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh sees a provocative series of photos having to do with the sense of touch at the ICA — installed within rooms and hallways created for the exhibit — and comments that the intimate domesticity, even with narratives that are ambiguous, is relatable.
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh sees a show of works in homage to Yard Art, those personal outdoor installations, some with religious figurines, or ceramic gnomes or plastic deer or pink flamingos, that people put into their personal outside space.
Read MoreArtblog’s new contributor, Alicia Link, sees an exhibit at AUTOMAT that raises thoughts about the weight of things, emotional, physical and even institutional, calling attention to the fact that the five artists in the exhibit, who are very involved in the Philadelphia arts community, have also been faculty, staff or guest critics at PAFA, whose weighty decision to close their degree programs left many reeling.
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh sees an exhibit by Nancy Hellebrand at The Print Center and found the exhibit, “beautiful and surprising, revealing and provocative, and likely to resonate in memory long after viewing it.”
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