Artblog | Reviews

May 10, 2023 by Alex Smith

SWARM, the kaleidoscopic visions of artist and filmmaker Terence Nance at the Institute for Contemporary Art

Alex Smith reviews the kaleidoscopic visions of Terence Nance’s SWARM, in the heart of Philadelphia, at UPENN’s ICA, through July 9, 2023.

May 3, 2023 by Emily Brewton Schilling

Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America at the African American Museum in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

May 3, 2023 by Niko Walczuk

The Mashrabiya Project: Seeing Through Space at the Museum for Art in Wood

April 26, 2023 by Lane Timothy Speidel

Let’s Get Free: The Transformative Art and Activism of the People’s Paper Co-op

Lane Speidel reviews Let’s Get Free: The Transformative Art and Activism of the People’s Paper Co-op at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College. The show ended April 21, 2023.

April 26, 2023 by Corey Qureshi

An Assembled Trace at DaVinci Art Alliance explores the use and waste of materials

Corey Qureshi examines how Nancy Agati, Alden Cole, Anna Guarneri, Ana Mosquera, and Maria Ah Hyun Stracke address sustainability and creativity in the exhibition An Assembled Trace at DVAA. The show ended on April 23, 2023.

April 19, 2023 by Kate Brock

In Praise of Fast Painting, The Highwaymen at Arcadia University

Kate Brock reviews the exhibition “The Highwaymen: Fast Painting the American Dream.” The exhibition includes works made by a group of 26 Black painters who came together to form the collective called The Highwaymen in the Jim Crow Florida.

April 19, 2023 by Alex Smith

Carolyn Lazard’s Long Take at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art

Alex Smith experiences Carolyn Lazard’s Long Take, an immersion in sound, poetry and dance in a darkened ICA with black screens alive with white words of poetry and the sounds of bodies moving but unseen.

April 12, 2023 by Susan Isaacs

Nourish, a deep dive into the nuances of sustenance and all its forms at the Delaware Contemporary

Susan Isaacs reviews three of the 10 installations that make up Nourish, an exploration of the sustenance that we all need at the Delaware Contemporary. The works and installation Isaacs focuses on offer up critiques of the role of women, in More Than a Woman, Adrian L. Burrell’s film and installation titled The Saints in Kongo Time, and the fantastical work of Miami based artists Federico Uribe. Each offers a different context for nourishment: the female body, the family and its history and the need to repair the plant.