In the bold and beautiful paintings of Dona Nelson, Lane Timothy Speidel finds optimism and spring-time hope after a long hard winter. Speidel’s poetic review explains Nelson sees themself as an intermediary.
Read MoreMiles Orvell spends time unpacking the current Wind Challenge 2 at Fleisher Art Memorial. He says the artists are dealing with today’s existential dilemmas, and sums up the show this way: “In our topsy-turvy world, a time of moral, political, and technological upheaval, the Fleisher Wind Challenge 2 offers three wildly different assessments of the human condition and three powerful models of what it means to be an artist today.”
Read MoreIn this guest essay by Chris Funkhouser, the writer tells us of Theodore A. Harris’s ‘Road to Damascus’ encounter with a commissioned painted copy of a 1662 Rembrandt work, “The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Draper’s Guild” at The Curtis Institute. Harris had been working on a series called “Thesentür/The Thinker.”
Read MoreOn a day of tragedy in Baltimore, caused by a container ship’s collision with the Key Bridge, the ensuing bridge collapse and loss of lives, we are thinking of the city and its people, and about other cities and peoples that depend on infrastructure that is fragile. How vulnerable we all are! Our Baltimore contributor Dereck Mangus, in a review written before this tragedy, will tell you about an exhibit that touches on tragedy — human and ecological.
Read MoreLogan Cryer sees ‘Data Nation’ at the National Liberty Museum, an exhibit with lots of A.I. in the background, and notes that unlike in other museum, the didactic material is the focus, with the art as a processor of the scientific information — and how that works well here.
Read MoreCorey Qureshi visits Big Ramp in North Philadelphia for ‘Death Card,’ the inaugural exhibit. The gallery is a project of Jacob (Chris) Hammes and others, following the “death” of Pilot Projects, Hammes’s former and beloved experimental space.
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Ryan deRoche opens Philly Theatre Week with a review of Plays and Players performance of Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story. The play reflects on themes of financial class, sexuality, and mental health.
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