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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, ... More » »

Mari Shaw makes it happen

“I have some stories for you,” said Mari Shaw as she looked down on me from her spot on the ramp at the Institute of Contemporary Art. It was Sept. 6, the opening of the museum’s fall shows, and the curators were doing their walk-through of the various exhibits before the reception. The talk started downstairs and everyone had just moved up the ramp and into the second floor Project Space. I was a lone straggler when Shaw greeted me with her conspiratorial conversation opener. Mari and Peter Shaw in their kitchen in Center City, looking at photos of an ... More » »

Vernacular Spectacular spectacular

Stuart Netsky’s new works, debuting in this show Catch the spectacle at Penn’s Meyerson Hall before it blows out the lights Nov. 24. It’s a great show and you don’t want to miss it. The exhibit, organized by Gabe Martinez and Jeremiah Misfeldt for last weekend’s SPEMA conference, is an expression of Philadelphia’s high energy art making. The show touches all the bases of pop culture in just about all the materials you can imagine and has great works never before shown by big name artists like Pepon Osorio and Stuart Netsky. Hours to see the exhibit are 9 am-5 ... More » »