Pair Jerry Saltz, everyone’s most beloved (or disliked, Robert Storr?) art critic with Baltimore stand up comic Stavros Halkias and let them talk about a bunch of things like art, humor, performance, criticism and what do you get? A little anarchism, a little fun.
Read MoreTyler Kline is both metaphysical in his thinking and materials-focused in his making. The two go very well together in works whose subject deals with time going forward and back and realms from the primordial to the digital.
Read MoreWith hints of Margaret Keane’s “Big Eyes” paintings, Dr. Seuss-ian colors and creatures, Adventure Time illustration, and few dashes of Tim Burton’s influence and Gustav Klimt-esque patterns, …the better to hold you with, my dear… comes to fruition.
Read MoreThe Internet exists somewhere between the real and the theoretical: a new digital plane of existence. Now on view at Fjord Gallery, Interface presents a spectrum of art that reflects and considers the role of the technology user.
Read MoreThe unity and divide between man and nature is and has long been a prevailing theme of many artists and curators. Open Field at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA) draws on the functions, failures, and artifices created between nature and culture to explore aspects of the great man/nature divide.
Read MoreThe current Philadelphia weather could not be more apropos for Automat’s light-hearted collective show titled, It’s the Humidity that will Kill You. Curated by Scott Schultheis and C.J Stahl, the exhibition brings together works that attempt to capture the heavy and almost tactile weight of late-summer heat.
Read MoreWhether you know his name or not, you have absolutely seen the work of Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920-1991). His depictions of thick, muscled bodies with their bulging thighs and arms; high pectorals and bubble butts; and sweet Teutonic faces playing the role of every desirable type of macho man under the sun have exaggerated the male ideal to comical proportions.
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