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January 13, 2020 by Morgan Nitz

What cannot be named, María Leguízamo on speech, gestures, asking for change

…fragility. Entities, bodies that can bend down their oppressor from their absolute difference with it. Most of the time, the smallest, most invisible, hidden, weakest, apparently irrelevant things are what…

December 6, 2019 by Wit López

Kara Hearn and Barb Smith on their duo show at Grizzly Grizzly

…also. I like how this took like a little metaphysical, little metaphysical bend. (laughter) I love it. So, in that vein, um, you mentioned, and I’m, I’m, uh- Why am…

June 14, 2019 by Artblog

Hank Willis Thomas at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Archiving LGBTQ history at The Print Center, Cheryl McClenney-Brooker passing, Gees Bend Quilters and Betty Leacraft, Plus Main Line Arts Opportunity

…permission Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates opening of the traveling Souls Grown Deep exhibition with panel discussion featuring Gees Bend quilters Essie Pettway and Mary Lee Bendolph and others. Gees…

June 4, 2019 by Julia Marsh

Lynda Benglis at Locks Gallery reflects the female in empowered feminist works

…forms reflect beauty and the uncanny; the spaces between; and the moments after. Her works are documents of making, in the squish or bend of clay, the turn or folding…

April 15, 2019 by Deborah Krieger

Imagining the end of the city, ‘After Cities’ at Fjord Gallery

…artist, Letha Wilson, focuses on the marks made on the landscape by human intervention. Letha Wilson, Volcano Aluminum Bend, 2019, UV print on Aluminum, 24 x 20 x 1.5 inches….

January 19, 2019 by Logan Cryer

Jennifer Packer’s beautifully obscured figures in Quality of Life at Sikkema Jenkins

…painting, “Laquan (2),” is of equal scale and blasts a hotter pink throughout. This time, desiccated roses and fronds fan across the canvas and bend towards the floor. Packer has…

October 13, 2018 by Michael Lieberman

Piece Together, The Quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph at Swarthmore’s List Gallery

…Bend: Oral Histories, interviews of several of Gee’s Bend residents by two Swarthmore students. References: Documentaries on the Gee’s Bend quilters include “The Quiltmakers of Gee’s Bend,” by PBS (referenced…

September 23, 2018 by Artblog

Marc Bamuthi Joseph builds a raft out of an Opera

…bend borders a little bit, and maybe you’re outside of them. IR: During intermission, an older white male critic turned to me and said: “So what happened? I mean, I…