Visual Art

Philadelphia

Comic Belief

Pearlstein Gallery exhibit reveals how cartoonists evade the claws of art-world co-optation.

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Nora Grace-Flood

4 Dec 2024 · 5 min read

New Haven

Something's Not Quite Right

Yale Peabody Museum neuroscience-art exhibit plays with perception.

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Brian Slattery

3 Dec 2024 · 8 min read

Philadelphia

How Does Your Garden Grow?

Mother-daughter exhibit gives birth to a floral take on acceptance.

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Nora Grace-Flood

26 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Wicked Wonders: What's The Harm in Some Charm?

"Wicked" makes an old story sing; the sequel will determine how Hollywood channels the horror.

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Juliana Tedeschi

25 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

The Art Of The Underpass

Gregory Prestegord brings an Impressionist lens to a Kensington bleakspace.

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Nora Grace-Flood

22 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Masking Up to Yell at God

Local bands lined up at West Philly's Satellite Cafe for a covid-cautious concert featuring air purifiers and PPE provided by United Musicians and Allied Workers.

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Izzy True

20 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Philadelphia

(Do!) Touch The Art

The word “haptic” is derived from the Greek "haptikos," which translates to “able to touch or grasp.” For anyone with a Disability that affects one or more of their five senses, the ability to touch visual artwork can be a key means of gripping the creator’s sense of style, intent and meaning.

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Clay Davies

19 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Swipe Not Right

Amiko Li's slide-deck photo exhibit captures the dark and light of dating-app culture.

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Nora Grace-Flood

18 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Tulsa

Tradition As Transmission

What if we thought about traditions as active, living things—less like ossified forms and more like natural organisms?

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Alicia Chesser

17 Nov 2024 · 5 min read

Philadelphia

Doing It Apocalypse Style

This week's round-up with a comic from Izzy True.

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Nora Grace-Flood, Izzy True

16 Nov 2024 · 1 min read

Oakland

Hovering Above the Baseboards, Peering Down from Above

The strange curation of this show lends to the exhibit’s whimsy and playfulness: delightfully eccentric and bizarro.

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Agustín Maes

14 Nov 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

DIY Love

A Mickalene Thomas exhibition inspired by French Black erotica from the 1950s shows It’s up to us to collage together the truths of our existence — and show everyone else what we’re made of.

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Nora Grace-Flood

11 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Rohrer or Rorschach?

Return to the Land puts the viewer to the test.

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Nora Grace-Flood

7 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Disabled Joy Hits The Runway

Oftentimes abled folks cannot conceive of Disabled joy without pity; they get lost in their own imaginations, stumbled by the disorders and wrongness they believe our bodies are burdened by. But on Saturday, celebration took center stage through flexibility of form and fashion.

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Clay Davies

3 Nov 2024 · 3 min read

Philadelphia

Place Show Win

As we travel through life, place echoes forward through us, making itself known no matter what.

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Nora Grace-Flood

30 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

Philadelphia

Rolling through Unseeing Eyes

I feel uneasy, and so does the boy in the photograph. He looks sick, on the edge of consciousness. He lays out on a chaise lounge, his face blank, while his twin brother holds onto his hand with an intensity I am familiar with when I am slipping unconscious.

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Clay Davies

28 Oct 2024 · 4 min read

New Haven

Through A Glass, Brightly

At Kehler Liddell Gallery's "overtones" and "bold as Love" shows.

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Brian Slattery

22 Oct 2024 · 3 min read

New Haven

Chopped Glass & Palm-Sized Homes

This weekend was the turn of artists at Willow Street's Marlin Works complex to invite the public in for Open Studios.

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Karen Ponzio

21 Oct 2024 · 4 min read