So much is going on this Spring, from charity fundraisers to festivals of music, theater and art! Plus, graduating artists thesis shows are beginning.
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 MorePete Sparber sits down with Samantha (Sam) Connors, the Executive Director of Da Vinci Art Alliance to talk about the organization’s roots in the community, its history (93 years strong) and the future.
Read MoreCorey Qureshi visits Big Ramp in North Philadelphia for ‘Death Card,’ the inaugural exhibit. The gallery is a project of Jacob (Chris) Hammes and others, following the “death” of Pilot Projects, Hammes’s former and beloved experimental space.
Read MoreMaxwell Van Cooper sees the six-person group exhibit ‘minor details’ at TILT Institute. An exhibition that takes off from the idea of an archive, the show is in part a collaboration or, even more-so, a response to curator Rami George’s archival work, “Untitled (minor details).”
Read MoreElizabeth interviews Paradigm Gallery and Studio’s co-founder Sara McCorriston about their 14-year journey through several moves; buying a building; working hard; hitting a big benchmark ($1 Million sales!) and their commitment to artists, curators, collectors and casual gallery goers.
Read MoreMiles Orvell goes to New Jersey to see Ellen Harvey’s ‘The Disappointed Tourist’ and cant get it out of his mind. Miles salutes Harvey’s crowd sourced project for the “universality of her major theme — precarity and loss.
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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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