Lane Speidel interviews Jim Strong, his friend and bandmate (Saggy) about Strong’s work, his spiritual life in Quakerism and other practices, and his music
Read MoreLane 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 MoreLane Speidel sees new work by Todd Stong, in the artist’s first solo exhibit in Philadelphia, at Peep Projects, and follows up with the artist to find out more. In his essay, Speidel mentions Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment,” an imagined hellish or heavenly nonexistent space with many bodies in ascent or descent.
Read MoreLane Speidel sees Anne Minich’s show of her iconic “head” series at Commonweal Gallery, created over the course of almost 50 years. In this poetic review, Lane says the experience of the works is utterly singular and comments, “Minich’s figures are both falling down a well and rising from it. Slipping behind the veil and pushing them aside. The inherent hubris of painting matched with the negation of idolatry.”
Read MoreIn this long-form interview, Lane Speidel and Jacob (Chris) Hammes talk about the history and closure of the alternative gallery, Pilot+Projects, a warehouse space in gentrifying Fishtown/Kensington.
Read MoreLane Timothy Speidel is an artist and writer, currently showing work at Data Nation at the National Liberty Museum. They uncover the promising uses of AI, for accessibility and representation, for underrepresented peoples. They also give warning about AI being used in exploitative ways, ultimately saying that in the art sphere it could never “replace” the artist.
Read MoreLane reviews the show “Songs for Ritual and Remembrance” at Arthur Ross Gallery, a spare exhibition with works that are heartfelt memorials to past trauma experienced by the artists, either personally, or through ancestral or other historical connections. The show, which Lane says, holds “some impressive and moving works,” is up until Sept. 17, 2023.
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