Reviews

May 31, 2019 by Logan Cryer

Soy Cuba/I am Cuba, at Arthur Ross, paintings of a country whose beauty hides its puzzling complexity

In their review of the exhibition “Soy Cuba/I am Cuba” at Arthur Ross Gallery, Logan Cryer says the Cuban artist Roger Toledo delivers a complex portrait of his homeland in art that is complex and conceptual.

May 30, 2019 by Alex Smith

Transcendence and Temporality, Black Quantum Futurism’s All Time is Local at Center for Emerging Visual Artists

Alex Smith reviews Black Quantum Futurism’s exhibition at Center for Emerging Visual Artists, All Time is Local, closing May 31, 2019.

May 29, 2019 by Matt Singer

Tristin Lowe on absurdity, the Big Bang, ‘Tiny Bangs’, blue jeans, and more

Matthew Singer interviews Tristin Lowe about his absurd sculptures and current exhibitions, “Tiny Bangs” at Fleisher/Ollman (closing June 1st, 2019) and “Emanation,” a group show at Wheaton arts and Cultural Center (closing December 31st, 2019).

May 29, 2019 by Samuel Brown

The story of heroic Jewish immigrant Moe Berg in ‘The Spy Behind Home Plate’

Samuel Brown reviews “The Spy Behind Home Plate,” a 101 minute long film that tells the story of Moe Berg, American spy and Major League Baseball player.

May 22, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

Pressure and resonance at the Print Center with James Siena and artists who type

Natalie Sandstrom reviews “James Siena: Resonance Under Pressure” and “New Typographics: Typewriter Art as Print” at the Print Center.

May 15, 2019 by Mandy Palasik

Visiting Kentuck Knob, the other Frank Lloyd Wright house in Western Pennsylvania

Mandy Palasik visits Kentuck Knob, the lesser known residential work by Frank Lloyd Wright, and explores the surrounding nature!

May 13, 2019 by Deborah Krieger

Chains and flowers evoke beauty and togetherness in ’Recombinants’ at C. R. Ettinger Studio

Deborah Krieger reviews Joan Wadleigh Curran’s exhibition “Recombinants,” on view at C. R. Ettinger Studio until May 17th, 2019.

May 6, 2019 by Chuck Patch

Tod Papageorge’s early color photos in Steidl’s ‘Dr. Blankman’s New York,’ good addition to the art canon

Chuck Patch reviews a beautiful new book of early color photographs by Tod Papageorge, active in the mid-1960s circle of photographers that included Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and others.

May 5, 2019 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Influenced by Wyeth, Mario Andres Robinson’s powerful portraits of people of color

Janyce Denise Glasper visits The Florence Academy in Jersey City, NJ, for a powerful exhibit of watercolor portraits by Mario Andres Robinson.

May 2, 2019 by Sarah Kim

Do Ho Suh stitches time, identity and memory in The Perfect Home II at the Brooklyn Museum

Sarah Kim reviews Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s ghostly “The Perfect Home II,” (2003) a gauzy translucent stitched fabric recreation of his one-time apartment in Chelsea.

April 28, 2019 by Susan Isaacs

Surrealist anxiety about war, dictators and refugees in ‘Monsters and Myths’ at Baltimore Museum of Art is topical today

Susan Isaacs says the anxiety present in the works in “Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s” at the Baltimore Museum of Art speaks to our times.

April 23, 2019 by Lacy Murphy

Why Are These Here? Antony Gormley’s “STAND”, Public Art, and the American Art Museum

Lacy Murphy talks Anthony Gormley’s “STAND” (on display at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art until June 24, 2019) and the role of public art.

April 22, 2019 by Wit López

‘4 Queer Voices’ sing in exhibition at William Way LGBT Community Center

Wit López reviews “4 Queer Voices” at the William Way LGBT Community Center, on display until April 26th, 2019.

April 19, 2019 by Matt Singer

Things Great and Small, Alex Stadler’s Wonder Chamber at the Clay Studio

Matt Singer shares a recent experience with the art of “Tell Me Something Good” at The Clay Studio in Old City, Philadelphia. Catch this exhibit before it comes down next week on April 28, 2019!