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Drexel’s Chinese art connection: Joseph Gregory tells all

How, I wondered, did Drexel University snag the wonderful exhibit, Half the Sky: Women in the New Art of China. The exhibit is a museum-class survey of contemporary Chinese art by women, the first U.S. survey of its kind, with more than half the exhibit filled with work by artists with whom you could well be familiar–artists who have been showing internationally in solo shows in prestigious venues.

Half the Sky–Chinese women at Drexel

Don’t let the modesty of Drexel’s current exhibition space (in a low building with a basic large space plus a couple of side rooms) fool you. Right now a museum-quality exhibit shines there.

Younger than Jesus at the New Museum

It’s young! It’s New! And Jesus, some of it is really pretty good–but not all of it. The New Museum exhibit The Generational: Younger than Jesus, the show of Gen Y Millenials and the first of what’s billed as a triennial roundup of what’s young and hot in art, is more about the show itself–a quickie soundbite txtng to the world how the internet and technology have changed art in light of the change in humanity’s self-view in a cyberworld where time and reality are radically different from the past.

A Visual Feast At the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in D.C.

Rama’s Army Crosses the Ocean to Lanka from the Ramcharitmanas of Tulsidas (1532-1623), Jodhpur (ca. 1775), opaque watercolor on paper, 63 x 125.8 cm, Mehrangarh Museum Trust. The scene displays continuous narrative with Rama, at upper left, planning the crossing from a mountaintop then at center left, prior to the crossing and a third time, at the center of a stone bridge as he is carried across the ocean on the back of a monkey warrior; finally he is seated as he speaks to his assembled army of monkeys and bears on the far shore.One enters Gardens and Cosmos: the ... More » »

Weekly Update 2–Life on Mars

This week’s Weekly has my review of the Carnegie International Life on Mars. Below is the copy with some pictures. More photos at flickr. And see Libby’s post for more on the show. Wind Turbines in Somerset, PA, something you can see from your car window while driving between Philly and Pittsburgh. It would be nicer to see the from a train window. Driving back from Pittsburgh after the opening of “Life on Mars” at the 55th Carnegie International, I had a very human response to life on earth in Pennsylvania.As the mountains and valleys floated by, hawks circled overhead ... More » »