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“Papa” Builds A “Sanity-Optional” Potato Volcano New Haven

“Papa” Builds A “Sanity-Optional” Potato Volcano

It may take you three nights to finish the "Taco Loco." It'll be worth it.

  • Go to the profile of  Samir Iydroose
Samir Iydroose
17 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Two translucent hand sculptures suspended by white ropes touch the sandy ground, leaving grooves in their paths. Their fingers are pointed toward each other. Gwangju

Hand Meets Sand

Jisu Sheen takes a close look at where hands are headed — and at stories drilled into the walls — in a lobby art installation.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
17 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Isaiah Philip Finds the Whole Person in a Single Coil Detroit

Isaiah Philip Finds the Whole Person in a Single Coil

The Detroit-based artist’s first solo show explores identity, vulnerability, and the diaspora.

  • Go to the profile of  Randiah Camille Green
Randiah Camille Green
17 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Stark, Funny, And Poignant, “Women’s Work” Stuns At Positive Space Tulsa

Stark, Funny, And Poignant, “Women’s Work” Stuns At Positive Space

The group show pulls no punches about women's place in art and society.

  • Go to the profile of  Becky Carman
Becky Carman
17 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Romare’s “Breathe” All Over

DJ Ryan’s New Release of the Week: Romare’s “Breathe”

The U.K. artist’s music feels like scraps of old, dusty records being pasted together.

  • Go to the profile of  Ryan Patrick Hooper
Ryan Patrick Hooper
17 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
(Ed) Fast Work On The Vibraphone Hartford

(Ed) Fast Work On The Vibraphone

Explores the range of influences of Latin jazz, at a tribute to the legendary Cal Tjader.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
17 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Kazoos To The Front As Knipple Turns Ten Tulsa

Kazoos To The Front As Knipple Turns Ten

The duo celebrated a decade in eclectic, genre-blending, banter-filled music at The Colony

  • Go to the profile of  Henry Roanhorse Gray
Henry Roanhorse Gray
16 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Tales Of A Mad Trad-Wife All Over

Tales Of A Mad Trad-Wife

Caro Claire Burke's "Yesteryear" offers a fictional, time-bending peek behind an influencer's facade.

  • Go to the profile of  Jenn McKee
Jenn McKee
16 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Baritone Defends The Truth Hartford

Baritone Defends The Truth

At Trinity "America @250" summer series concert.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
16 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
The Colors Of Water New Haven

The Colors Of Water

Artists dive in, at City Gallery "Sea Glass" exhibit.

  • Go to the profile of  Brian Slattery
Brian Slattery
16 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Protest Poetry Is Alive And Well In Oklahoma Tulsa

Protest Poetry Is Alive And Well In Oklahoma

At the Woody Guthrie Center, 12 writers delivered urgent messages about labor organizing, injustice, mass deportation, and the power of names

  • Go to the profile of  Portlyn Houghton-Harjo
Portlyn Houghton-Harjo
15 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
After Happily-Ever-After All Over

After Happily-Ever-After

Priya Guns' novel "Hustle, Baby" follows a amily of Sri Lankan refugees struggling in Toronto in the aughts.

  • Go to the profile of  Serena Puang
Serena Puang
15 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
Everything Was Delivered Philadelphia

Everything Was Delivered

When Bob Dylan swept into the Mann Center with Jimmy Vaughn and co.

  • Go to the profile of  Tyler Maxwell
Tyler Maxwell
15 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
The Young And The Restless Hartford

The Young And The Restless

At the Old State House, rising star Kalntyne serves up bubbly originals, and a new take on the Arctic Monkeys.

  • Go to the profile of  Jamil Ragland
Jamil Ragland
14 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
July 13: The Weekly Roundup Philadelphia

July 13: The Weekly Roundup

Welcome! You're reading a weekly wrap of articles from Philly Midbrow, which publishes daily reviews about arts and culture events happening across our city. We're taking

  • Go to the profile of  Nora Grace-Flood
Nora Grace-Flood
13 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
Sensus Mag Debates What Counts as Political Philadelphia

Sensus Mag Debates What Counts as Political

The latest edition of the hyperlocal arts publication asks: Do artists have a responsibility to the larger public?

  • Go to the profile of  Soleil Summer
Soleil Summer
13 Jul 2026 · 3 min read
Jejune Matures Into Act II Philadelphia

Jejune Matures Into Act II

The emo band's reunion represents all the '90s rockers that are reconvening to perform for younger generations of fans.

  • Go to the profile of  Pierce Jordan
Pierce Jordan
13 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Somewhat blurry/aged image of a person in a flannel reaching up, pinning a loose painting to a rod resting on wooden supports. Many scenes centering people protesting. Gwangju

Surviving The Fire

Jisu Sheen reports on a digitally restored 77-meter painted banner chronicling 100 years of pro-democracy Korean movements, burned by police in 1989.

  • Go to the profile of  Jisu Sheen
Jisu Sheen
13 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
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