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Chemistry is Us: Philly’s seductive new science museum for grown-ups
Periodic Table designed by Theodore Gray; a large multi-image version is included in the new museum at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. If the word chemistry provokes a reaction somewhere between boredom and fear, think again. The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) at 3rd and Chesnut has opened a new museum designed, as they put it, for adults who don’t remember or understand chemistry. They’ve done a smashing job! The museum will also appeal to serious younger visitors, but unlike the playground atmosphere that’s the Franklin Institute, this is filled with loads of information and lots of artifacts. The permanent exhibition Making ... More » »
Nothing Succeeds Like Excess: Rummage by Susie Brandt at the Design Center
Deborah Warner of Moore College of Art and Suzie Brandt share a funny remark in front of Pad (1998-99), Brandt’s version of a traditional patchwork quilt, but made from shoulder-pads, and below the mantlepiece, Knees, Brandts’ variation on a stone wall created from stockings stuffed with batting Suzie Brandt is not one of those artists who dresses in what my husband terms programmatic black; nor does she tend towards understatement. Brandt, who teaches at Maryland Institute College of Art, revels in color and pattern and for her, more is definitely more. It was an inspired idea to invite her to ... More » »
Mapping another world: Charles Burwell at Bridgette Mayer
Charles Burwell, Red Bio, 36×37 inches; I loved the way the drips creates a wavy edge at the bottom that then created a ridged shadow. I don’t remember earlier work created with such abandon to the joys of juicy color and texture. The layers of Charles Burwell’s new work in his one-man show Continuum at Bridgette Mayer Gallery have taken on a new physical presence and a sense of freedom. The new paintings of oil on canvas suddenly are juicy with unrestrained overlapping lines and intense, drippy color — so drippy that the paint corrugates the bottom edge of the ... More » »
It’s art, it’s craft, it’s good: Artists talk at Abington
Ambush, by Kimberley Hart, 2005, fabric, yarn, pailettes, sequins, beads, upholstery tacks, ladder, salt. This is a female version of a tree house, all crocheted. Even the ladder is pink. There are grill-covered windows on this that remind me of grills behind which Muslim women invisibly peer out onto the street. In the left corner is art, and in the right is craft, but at Abington Art Center right now, it’s tough to tell the two apart–and by mixing it up, the exhibit–The HandMaking–asks all kinds of interesting questions about both and about value and about women’s work and men’s ... More » »
