The group’s music manages to segue from classically informed post-bop (a genre of small-combo jazz that broke out in the early to mid-1960s) to folk rock. I noticed that, like his newest album, Bennett’s tunes had some noticeably quirky titles, from the delicate “Strange Gym and the Zebra” and the mysteriously optimistic “The Spinning Top Stood Still” to the fluid “John Lizard Comes Home”.
Read MoreFrom the Bible, to Orson Welles, to Dr. Zaius, we create allegories that expose our unnatural human state of violence (against this planet; against each other) and forewarn of an animal kingdom uprising that will soon purge our foreign bodies from this land.
Read MoreThe current Philadelphia weather could not be more apropos for Automat’s light-hearted collective show titled, It’s the Humidity that will Kill You. Curated by Scott Schultheis and C.J Stahl, the exhibition brings together works that attempt to capture the heavy and almost tactile weight of late-summer heat.
Read MoreWhether you know his name or not, you have absolutely seen the work of Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920-1991). His depictions of thick, muscled bodies with their bulging thighs and arms; high pectorals and bubble butts; and sweet Teutonic faces playing the role of every desirable type of macho man under the sun have exaggerated the male ideal to comical proportions.
Read MoreThe Light Room’s 5th Annual Summer Photography Exhibition demonstrates the daunting curatorial challenge of presenting a coherent exhibition of the work of eight photographers working without an organizing theme. I do not think that the members of the Light Room and the 3rd Street Gallery have accomplished that, but there are some wonderful pieces here, and obviously a group of talented and skillful photographers.
Read MoreThis week on the artblog Reader Advisor: Get a little higher with a newly patented space elevator and a play about Sylvia Plath and Frida Kahlo smoking up; new Android updates; and the jerk who let a tiger loose in the Packard Plant without permission. — the artblog editors
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