Philadelphia is jam-packed with news and events and exhibitions this Fall. How wonderful, it’s almost like we’re coming out of a pandemic or something!
Read MoreHi, lots of new shows are opening in the first few days of May. Including Our House is on Fire and Pandemic Flowers. at the Da Vinci Art Alliance with Exciting news comes with the newest exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Judith Joy Ross’s traveling retrospective visits its only U.S. venue here in Philadelphia. Hot Bed is hosting a talk with artists Su Knoll Horty and Krista Dedrick-Lai from the Leading a Colorful Life group show this Friday. Hope you’ll find something to interest you.
Read MoreAll cities have their quirky old buildings, and Dereck Mangus rounds up five that stand out in Baltimore for their long upstanding facades, which stayed the same as the world changed around them and sometimes their “innards” were made fresh for the times.
Read MoreDereck Mangus tells us about six towers in Baltimore that were built by various people for various reasons, most of them not utilitarian reasons. Dereck calls them “humbler, more endearing towers, popping up throughout Charm City like exotic little mushrooms.”
Read MoreOur contributor Dereck Stafford Mangus’s day job is museum guard at the Baltimore Museum of Art, but Dereck also works as a member of the museum’s conservation crew dusting the sculptures in the sculpture garden. Recently, the dusting tasks came up against the demolition of a building next door to the museum, on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, triggering Dereck’s thoughts about demolitions in general and the labor of artists and conservators. Enjoy this behind the scenes look at a different kind of museum work. All photomontages by Dereck Stafford Mangus.
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