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In this sprawling and wonderful interview, Susan Isaacs talks with Michael C. Thorpe about his varied art practice that includes quilting that uses fabrics as a palette of choices like a painter uses paints.
Read MoreMiles Orvell says the show at Cherry Street Pier with works by Laurence Salzmann reveal a wide-ranging body of works, from ethnographic and documentary photographs from the artist’s anthropological visits in Romania, Peru and elsewhere, to his more abstract photographs that weave together landscape and suggestions of the human presence.
Read MoreTasso Hartzog chronicles the high drama and steely nature of Judith Joy Ross’s photographs and sitters. Witness photos spanning from the Northeast of the United States to Paris, France exploring the nature of her subjects. See the 200 or so photos through August 6th at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Read MoreRami George dove into the John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at the William Way Center in hope of uncovering the histories of under-known queer communities in Philadelphia, from trans, non-binary, lesbian, POC and disabled peoples.
Read MoreMiles Orvell writes an essay diving deep into photographer Laurence Salzmann’s photo essays about humans and their relationships to animals– shepherds and sheep; dogs and their owners– select photographs from which are currently on view in “Creatures Real and Imagined” at Art on the Avenue, thru on April 30, 2022. The exhibit also features etchings by celebrated artist and friend of Salzmann, Holley Coulter Chirot.
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