Hello! The News today focuses on a couple Philadelphia museums and includes two great opportunities, one from Blah Blah Gallery and one from the Association for Public Art and the Parkway Council.
Read MoreIn this guest essay by Chris Funkhouser, the writer tells us of Theodore A. Harris’s ‘Road to Damascus’ encounter with a commissioned painted copy of a 1662 Rembrandt work, “The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Draper’s Guild” at The Curtis Institute. Harris had been working on a series called “Thesentür/The Thinker.”
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 MoreSo 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.
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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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