With our reviews, we led the discussion about what is valuable and why. (Artblog 2023-2025)
Our writing teams covered exhibitions, performances, in Philadelphia and elsewhere. We also covered books and movies and music and dance. We looked, took notes, asked questions and listened. We took pictures, made video and audio recordings. We thought about what we saw and expressed opinions. And we wrote our hearts out, every day.
Joyce Chung sees a performance by Jungwoong Kim and ten performers at Studio 34 in West Philadelphia that is improvisatory (they had one rehearsal right before the performance), with dance, movement and music, and with performers watching each other, falling back or stepping up, as moved to do so.
Read MoreMegan Bridge sees ‘For Now !’ by Chloe Marie, which debuted at Christ Church Neighborhood House April 30. Performed by seven dancers, with music and conversational voice of the creator interwoven, the piece generates space for rumination of your own place and space, says Bridge, as well as space to absorb your immediate surroundings – the sights sounds and emotional thrust of people performing – and the audience participating by extension.
Read MoreSharon Garbe sees the towering works by British artist Thomas J Price in an exhibit titled “Resilience of Scale,” and comments that they are not only about scale.
Read MoreCorey Qureshi visits Marginal Utility/2C Books for the show, ‘Curio,’ work by Zachary Simonson, which involves a cabinet and drawers filled with or embellished with surreal figures (mushrooms, and things that look like a lamp, or a candle, an empty bell jar) and glyph-like characters that might be from a different language, or from a different planet.
Read MoreLogan Cryer gets immersed in the style, music and “indie sleaze” culture of the early aughts in a show of photographs and memorabilia by Melissa Simpson at Tiger Strikes Asteroid.
Read MoreLane Speidel visits Carl Cheng’s exhibit at ICA several times, taken with the breadth of the artist’s thinking and making in this large retrospective.
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