Pete Sparber talks with former Temple Contemporary Curator Jova Lynne about the upcoming exhibit, “Black Like That: Our Lives as Living Praxis,” which will reveal under-known Black history and people in Philadelphia in order to connect their histories with the community and make these stories part of the ongoing story of Philadelphia.
Read MoreSusan Isaacs sees a 50-year retrospective of works by Joyce J. Scott at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Scott is a Macarthur Award-winning artist, whose works deal with political themes of social justice
Read MoreElizabeth interviews Paradigm Gallery and Studio’s co-founder Sara McCorriston about their 14-year journey through several moves; buying a building; working hard; hitting a big benchmark ($1 Million sales!) and their commitment to artists, curators, collectors and casual gallery goers.
Read MoreKate Brock reviews the exhibition “The Highwaymen: Fast Painting the American Dream.” The exhibition includes works made by a group of 26 Black painters who came together to form the collective called The Highwaymen in the Jim Crow Florida.
Read MoreAlex Smith experiences Carolyn Lazard’s Long Take, an immersion in sound, poetry and dance in a darkened ICA with black screens alive with white words of poetry and the sounds of bodies moving but unseen.
Read MoreSusan Isaacs reviews three of the 10 installations that make up Nourish, an exploration of the sustenance that we all need at the Delaware Contemporary. The works and installation Isaacs focuses on offer up critiques of the role of women, in More Than a Woman, Adrian L. Burrell’s film and installation titled The Saints in Kongo Time, and the fantastical work of Miami based artists Federico Uribe. Each offers a different context for nourishment: the female body, the family and its history and the need to repair the plant.
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