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This week’s news has lots from The Arts League including their second artist convening and the announcement that their Executive Director, Zoë Rayn Evans is moving on and they are looking for a new E.D. Also, a couple outstanding exhibits are closing soon.
Read MoreIn the bold and beautiful paintings of Dona Nelson, Lane Timothy Speidel finds optimism and spring-time hope after a long hard winter. Speidel’s poetic review explains Nelson sees themself as an intermediary.
Read MoreMiles Orvell spends time unpacking the current Wind Challenge 2 at Fleisher Art Memorial. He says the artists are dealing with today’s existential dilemmas, and sums up the show this way: “In our topsy-turvy world, a time of moral, political, and technological upheaval, the Fleisher Wind Challenge 2 offers three wildly different assessments of the human condition and three powerful models of what it means to be an artist today.”
Read MoreSo much is going on this Spring, from charity fundraisers to festivals of music, theater and art! Plus, graduating artists thesis shows are beginning.
Read MorePete Sparber talks with Elizabeth Johnson about her solo exhibit at Gross McCleaf Gallery. Titled ‘The Cost of Sleep,’ the show presents large and small oil paintings that are dreamscapes of tornado-like swirlings, very beautiful, energetic, and a little terrifying.
Read MorePete Sparber sits down with Samantha (Sam) Connors, the Executive Director of Da Vinci Art Alliance to talk about the organization’s roots in the community, its history (93 years strong) and the future.
Read MoreCorey Qureshi visits Big Ramp in North Philadelphia for ‘Death Card,’ the inaugural exhibit. The gallery is a project of Jacob (Chris) Hammes and others, following the “death” of Pilot Projects, Hammes’s former and beloved experimental space.
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On a day of tragedy in Baltimore, caused by a container ship’s collision with the Key Bridge, the ensuing bridge collapse and loss of lives, we are thinking of the city and its people, and about other cities and peoples that depend on infrastructure that is fragile. How vulnerable we all are! Our Baltimore contributor Dereck Mangus, in a review written before this tragedy, will tell you about an exhibit that touches on tragedy — human and ecological.
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