Reviews

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!

April 17, 2019 by Julia Marsh

Not so ‘Quaint’, an exhibition of Lancaster artists at Little Berlin

Julia Marsh reviews “Quaint”, an exhibition of art by Lancaster artists, at Little Berlin until April 28th, 2019.

April 15, 2019 by Deborah Krieger

Imagining the end of the city, ‘After Cities’ at Fjord Gallery

Deborah Krieger reviews “After Cities” at FJORD Gallery in North Philadelphia, on display from March 14 – April 27, 2019.

April 11, 2019 by Andrea Kirsh

Artists united by opposition in ‘Artists Respond, American Artists and the Vietnam War 1965-1975’ at Smithsonian American Art Museum

Andrea Kirsh reviews “Artists Respond: American Artists and the Vietnam War 1965-1975” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, on view from March 15, 2019 – August 18, 2019.

April 3, 2019 by Mark Lord

Jasper Johns distills the past through the calm analytics of mind applied to memory, at Matthew Marks Gallery

Our contributor Mark Lord experiences the Jasper Johns exhibit at Matthew Marks, and finds the highly charged subject of the work (a 1965 photo of a U.S. combat soldier weeping at the loss he could not prevent of friends in the war). He talks about the intimacy and emotion of the subject and how Johns removes the emotion for a reading about the mind distilling memory over time. The show is up through April 6 at the New York gallery.