Michael reviews a film exploring the last years of a Japanese American grandfather’s life, filmed by his own granddaughter, which he only agreed to allow her to publish at the end of his life.
Read MoreChip investigates an exhibition featuring two artists searching to find healing and acceptance through their work, and says their approaches create diverse and lively visuals.
Read MoreIn the second part of a two-part series, Andrea reviews two books that tackle the status of performance art in the museum. Intended to be ephemeral, fleeting, time-bound, how does performance art fit in museum collection, which are by their very nature static?
Read MoreDonald reviews a collaboration between the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, in which paintings from the collection are paired with musical compositions they have inspired. While the idea of pairing music has the potential to provoke creative dialogue, the overall result fell short of those ambitions, he says.
Read MoreArtist Marlène Mocquet offers up a savage menagerie of creatures from the darkest corners of fairy tales at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris. The setting, a 17th-century mansion turned into a museum dedicated to the hunt, is eerily perfect for her ceramic creations.
Read MoreKitty immerses herself in the 3 new site-specific installations at Eastern State Penitentiary–Unconquerable Soul by Piotr Szyhalski and Richard Shelton, Hakims’s Tale by Erik Ruin and Gelsey Bell, and Sepulture by Jared Scott Owen. These 3 installations explore themes of surveillance, survival, and mortality that resonate with the original function of this 19th-century prison as well as our contemporary criminal justice system.
Read MoreTo Chance, To Wander at Fjord asks, what does it mean to get lost now? Bringing together work from 12 American and Chilean artists, the show explores the themes of place, identity, memory, and our relationship with the natural world. Ephraim says this is a show to take your time with and get a little lost – in a good way!
Read MoreMichael takes in Christopher Wood’s drawing-a-day project, Frequent Exceptions, on view at HOUSE Gallery. These subtle, resonant graphite drawings pull you into a meditative state of reflection on space, tone, and the passage of time, he says.
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