Sherman Fleming’s art is personal, performative and quietly confrontational. Amazing, actually. Recently, Fleming said, he did a public art piece in Brooklyn that riffed on those offensive yard jockeys.
Read MoreIt’s good to step away from the computer and into groups of people. It affirms how wonderfully varied and rich the Philadelphia art world is. Here, just a few comments about a couple things going on this month that you may have missed.
Read MoreEastern European artists whose work is known in the West—among them Marina Abramović, Miroslav Balka, Sanja Ivecović, Ilya Kabakov, and Dan Perjovschi—are diverse and extremely interesting, and passing time reveals further significant artists whose reputations have been obscured by the politics of the Cold War. There were many art scenes throughout the East, often underground.
Read MoreMy favorite description of chamber music has to be by Richard Walthew. In a 1909 lecture, Walthew referred to chamber music as the “music of friends”.
Read MoreIf you’re a working artist, then finding new, innovative ways to differentiate yourself from the crowd of other artists ought to be a priority. You know that your artwork is good, and you’ve put so much of yourself into it, so why not help the viewer connect with it, faster, and really “get it”, by providing another layer of engagement with it?
Read MoreI think there is something deeper at work that has generated a certain resistance to ‘theory’ on a general cultural level, one that is much larger than the development of art in Philadelphia. I think that this ‘resistance’ is an effect of broader and deeper cultural attitude that has developed over the last twenty years (at least) in such a way that it does not allow us to see what is important about criticism or thinking ‘theoretically.’
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