Our new contributor Cindy Stockton Moore reviews two activism-fueled exhibits in West Philadelphia, one on climate devastation, at the Annenberg School on the Penn campus, and one on gun violence, at the University City Science Center. She notes that both exhibits appeared outside a gallery setting.
Read MoreMiles Orvell visits Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz in their studios for this feature that explores the couple’s careers in tandem over the last 50 years and their individual bodies of work, noting also that they’ve been pursuing “the art of marriage (to each other) for the same fifty years,”
Read MoreLogan Cryer writes about Jayson Musson’s exhibit of new quilted wall works at Fleisher-Ollman, and says their materiality must be considered. With the use of many visible stitched lines factoring into the pieces and their reference to Gees Bend quilts to be noted, the work raises questions.
Read MoreStephen Lauf shares from his experience of creating LGBTQ+ supporting art in Russia with a long a complicated personal history with the country.
Read MoreOur contributors Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz traveled to Washington to the art fair Artomatic, to speak at a panel on the CETA program (federal artists’ employment program in the 1970s), which they participated in.
Read MorePete Sparber talks with Elizabeth Johnson about her solo exhibit at Gross McCleaf Gallery. Titled ‘The Cost of Sleep,’ the show presents large and small oil paintings that are dreamscapes of tornado-like swirlings, very beautiful, energetic, and a little terrifying.
Read MoreToday’s news has lots of newsy bits, about Mayor Cherelle Parker, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Print Center, the John Coltrane House, (re)Focus at Tyler, and a great read – Logan Cryer’s interview with Arthur Ross Gallery.
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On a day of tragedy in Baltimore, caused by a container ship’s collision with the Key Bridge, the ensuing bridge collapse and loss of lives, we are thinking of the city and its people, and about other cities and peoples that depend on infrastructure that is fragile. How vulnerable we all are! Our Baltimore contributor Dereck Mangus, in a review written before this tragedy, will tell you about an exhibit that touches on tragedy — human and ecological.
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