“Remembering, Repeating, and Working-Through” is a short but extraordinary paper written by Sigmund Freud in 1914. I have been reading it for years with unshaking enthusiasm.
Read MoreFor the museum, this exhibit of Indian contemporary photography is a great complement to the PMA’s commitment to Indian art. For Philadelphians, the show is a great introduction to work that has not been widely exhibited here before.
Read MoreThe color combinations of these works create an illusion of depth, opacity, and even motion: the orbs seem to pulse.
Read MoreThe political art product might not be an immanent active one, but its power seems to lie in the possible artistic influence to gradually transform social-political thinking.
Read MoreThe works of Meksin, Sack, and DeMuro are introspective, thought-provoking, and push against some of the boundaries that the curators sought to explore. However, I thought that Kati Gegenheimer’s drawings, although pleasing in their own right, did not fit in.
Read MoreWick’s work invokes feelings about the earth we inhabit, about our fragility and vulnerability, about our fears and our passions, and about what we are doing to the earth and to each other.
Read MoreHouse of Escaping Forms is a project of the Los Angeles-based collaborating couple, Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson, who actually live in a hilltop abode populated, of necessity and by choice, with their functional, found-object creations and hand-made objects.
Read MoreTanner’s works on paper are initially gorgeous, a respite for the senses. But fragile, awkward moments point to uncomfortable relationships between forms.
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