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The Rules for Staying Young in Wilmington

Post by Katrina Kuntz “The Rules for Staying Young,” the current exhibition at the New Wilmington Art Association of works inspired by the game of baseball, vacillates between form and expressive content.  Some artists are drawn to baseball as a formal system which quantifies balls, strikes, fouls, hits, etc.; for them, the play of the game and its statistics serve as metaphors for greater degrees of formal order and structure. Other artists identify with the roaring crowd; they are carried away by the individual as well as team struggles that transpire on the field but also by the sense of ... More » »

Shibata’s roads, Modica’s boys of summer at 339

The pairing of photographic works by Toshio Shibata and Andrea Modica at Gallery 339 is inspired. From the sublime breadth of Shibata’s unpeopled highway landscapes to Modica’s specific, humanistic portraits of farm-league baseball players, the two excellent stand-alone exhibits reach across the gallery spaces in conversation with each other.