Karen previews the show, Color Riot, at Jed Williams Gallery (opening July 7), where painter Barbara Mink melds translucent, flowing color with sculptural texture in her paintings–a reward for the eye.
Karen Chernick explains what’s going on with the missing mural that once graced the boarded-up arches to the Royal Theater building on South Street. For the full details about the life and death of the historic African American theater, now demolished and being developed as mixed-use living and retail space, see Michael Bixler’s story at Hidden City.