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CAi’s “Summer Phase” in Chestnut Hill windows

by Clarissa Shanahan Chestnut Hill Arts Initiative’s premiere show, ‘Summer Phase’, proved to be a thoughtfully curated blend of conceptual installations in a variety of mediums, featuring the work of ten different artists.This was a particularly contemporary and progressive show in an otherwise conservative area.

Artist-friendly Wilmington–Michael Kalmbach helps it happen

You may not know or care about Michael Kalmbach–yet. But perhaps that’s only because you don’t live in Wilmington. Kalmbach is practically a one-man band, beating the drum for keeping young artists in town and turning this close-by city once again into a place worth visiting for contemporary art. Thanks in part to him, young artists coming out of Delaware College for Art and Design (DCAD) and the University of Delaware have more reasons to stay in Wilmington after graduation, lured by the possibility of joining and exhibiting at the New Wilmington Art Association (NWAA), which Kalmbach founded, but also ... More » »

New York out-takes

Richard Serra sculptures in the Sculpture Garden, MoMA. Note the photographer on the roof taking overhead pictures. MoMA was packed last Thursday. I said to Steve remember when we used to come visit the old MoMA, the little squishy MoMA? We would make trips to New York from Madison all the time in the late 1970s. We were always there the week between Christmas and New Years, a high tourist invasion time. Yet our trips to MoMA — in my rosy memory — were not marred by uber-crowded conditions. Crowd in front of Picasso’s Demoiselles D’Avignon, now celebrating its hundredth ... More » »