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Moving images–Dance and repetition make your eye and heart sing, a book review

Since the King of Pop died, I’ve been catching up on my Michael Jackson video watching. The ones that really grab me are Thriller and Beat It which aspire to be short movies and pretty much are. Jackon’s dancing is remarkable to watch of course. But his dance moves take on even greater visual energy and emotion when he’s backed up by a dance troupe mimicking him and amplifying the movements.  It’s then that the quick-stepping, twitching, pirouetting and hip popping becomes one big satisfying wave of movement.

Is that a video at Gallery Joe? Yes, and so much more

Rachel Perry Welty, Friends & Family, video on DVD, 8 minutes, edition of 25 Not meaning to slight the various other wonderful work at Gallery Joe, I had to lead with the video! This has to be a first in the history of this jewel of a gallery that usually limits its shows to intense drawings. The video, by Rachel Perry Welty, is excellent and hilarious–I stood for all 8 minutes, not wanting to miss a word. But you know how it is when you get a message on a phone machine, and some of the words come through a ...

Mezuzah love at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art

Image of Mezuzot from the show, A Kiss for the Mezuzah, curated by Matthew Singer of the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art. Not long ago Matt Singer, Curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art emailed to ask me if I’d write an essay for a show he was putting together at the museum called “A Kiss for the Muzuzah.” The exhibit is all new commissioned works — each a Mezuzah — by a Philadelphia artist. Not all the artists are Jewish and together they represent a power team whose works I’ve long admired: Candy Depew, Jeanne Jaffe, Isaac Lin, ...

Weekly Update – Inter_Logical Landscapes at Drexel

Hi there, I’m back. This week’s Weekly has my review of Drexel University’s Inter_Logic. Below is the copy with pictures and here’s the link to the art page. Never Mind the Pollocks“Inter_Logic” asks: Where’s Waldo today? “Inter_Logic” at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery is an ambitious group show questioning the meaning of landscape today. Since many of us get our landscape served up photographically and digitally enhanced, “how green is my valley” takes on new meaning. Lee Arnold Alpinia, a rock-candy mountain-scape that’s more threatening than it looks. The six artists in this exhibit—three local, two from New York and one from ...