Reviews

October 22, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

New exhibition ‘Back and Song’ at Girard College explores medical discrimination and healing

Natalie Sandstrom reviews ‘Back and Song,’ an exhibition by filmmakers Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young installed at Girard College.

October 18, 2019 by Michael Carroll

Gabe Martinez’s ‘Bound to the Past,’ a revisiting of 1981, at Marginal Utility

Michael Carroll reviews the latest exhibition by local artistic genius “Gabriel Martinez: Bound to the Past.” The display is centered on the summer of 1981 and the importance of that point in time as a cultural and political moment in LGBTQ+ history. Martinez’s work will be on display through October 20, 2019 at Marginal Utility gallery located at 319 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

October 11, 2019 by Alex Smith

How Are We Free? Lifelines Project pairs art by people in prison and artists outside, at Vox Populi

Alex reviews the project-based show at Vox Populi, “How Are We Free?” at Vox Populi through Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019.

October 9, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

Expanding ‘outside,’ Lisi Raskin and Jesse Harrod’s ‘Mending and Repair in Response’ at Fleisher Ollman

Natalie Sandstrom visits “Mending and Repair in Response,” an exhibition of works by Lisi Raskin and Jesse Harrod at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery. The show closes on October 26th, 2019.

October 2, 2019 by Sarah Kim

Mythological, entrancing and immersive, Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez’s ‘Feet First’ at Spillway Collective

Sarah Kim writes an enthusiastic review of “Feet First”, an interactive video, painting, and sculpture installation by Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez at Spillway Collective, closing on October 5th, 2019.

October 1, 2019 by Michael Lieberman

Richard Kagan’s nocturnal ‘photo-graphs’, meditations on ethereal Kyoto

Michael Leiberman visits Richard Kagan’s “Blurred Time: Sacred Places in Kyoto”, at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral. You can visit the show on weekdays between 11 AM and 1 PM, or by appointment, until October 27th, 2019.

September 26, 2019 by Levi Bentley

The buildup of a fine instrument, on Thomas Devaney’s ‘You Are the Battery’

Levi Bentley reviews “You Are the Battery,” a book of poetry by Thomas Devaney. Read further to learn why Bentley compares Devaney’s written work to the sculptures of Cecilia Vicuña.

September 25, 2019 by Logan Cryer

19.5%, Women in Power and Politics, surprising work, impressive curating at Little Berlin

Logan Cryer visits the current exhibition on North Coral St. and writes about a show she calls impressive for delivering art on divisive and difficult topics.

September 19, 2019 by Janyce Denise Glasper

Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum, excellent contemporary art by artists of the African Diaspora

Janyce Denise Glasper sees an exhibit at the Newark Museum that showcases the excellence of art made by contemporary artists of the African diaspora.

August 28, 2019 by Ray Simon

Chulas Fronteras, Les Blank’s re-mastered 1976 documentary about Mexican American music at the Texas border

Ray Simon visits Lightbox Film Center to view a screening of “Chulas Fronteras” by Les Blank. Simon says the film is a beautiful and romantic snapshot of the lives of working-class Mexican Americans living in Texas in the mid-1970s.

August 28, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

Julian Hoeber’s playful romp through architecture and art history at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

Natalie Sandstrom visits Julian Hoeber’s solo exhibition at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts and writes a thoughtful review about Hoeber’s art history and philosophical influences and his playful conceptual sculpture.

August 21, 2019 by Alex Smith

‘Horror Noire’ at Scribe Video, Co-writer Ashlee Blackwell talks about racial stereotyping in the horror genre

Alex Smith visits Scribe Video Center for a screening of the documentary movie, “Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror” and a Q&A with co-writer of the film, Ashlee Blackwell.

August 18, 2019 by Deborah Krieger

Narrative paintings at Craig Krull Gallery accentuate Los Angeles’s complicated history

Deborah Krieger visits “Narrative Painting in LA” at Craig Krull Gallery in her hometown of Los Angeles, California. The exhibition closes on August 31, 2019.

August 12, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

Additional Assembly Required at AUTOMAT, a whimsical, textured group exhibition

Natalie Sandstrom visits “Additional Assembly Required,” AUTOMAT collective’s 2019 Open Call exhibition.