With gorgeous color, ebullient natural imagery (birds, butterflies, flowers) and harmonious designs, Trudy Kraft’s “Emergence” at Gross McCleaf is pure visual happiness. Kraft’s third solo show at the gallery continues the artist’s exploration of the cosmic inter-connectedness of things. Influenced by cultural traditions in Japan, Africa, Thailand and India, Kraft’s easel-sized works on paper feature [...]

In January, when the sprinklers went off unexpectedly in Bambi Gallery and damaged some of its art, Bambi proprietress Candace Karch decamped, taking her February show to another location. Now, Karch says, Bambi will migrate permanently out of its location at the Piazza after her March show. But this is not the end of Bambi—the [...]

A Jayson Musson exhibit is a shock to the system for the sensitive art enthusiast who expects only well-behaved and friendly art in a gallery.   Musson’s word art, on posters and, for his new show at Marginal Utility, some newly-printed vacation-style t-shirts, is like a smack upside the head, delivering rants about the art world, [...]

Virtual Assistance is great, and a great rarity: political art that’s poetic and elliptical. Without being heavy-handed or preachy, the videos, photos, printouts and objects in the show deliver a story of successful human interaction in the face of globalization and a corporate-dictated power structure. Andrew Norman Wilson, a 27-year-old MFA candidate at the School [...]

Digital tools are not new to art.  But some artists are fascinated with the way these tools are changing art practices. “alterations,” a group show at Locks Gallery, takes a look at art and technology, and while this might not sound like a laugh-out-loud show to you, the mix of video and installation includes some [...]

Joan Jonas‘ “Reading Dante III” at the Fabric Workshop and Museum includes a 45-minute video of people reading excerpts of Dante’s Divine Comedy.  The lengthy, dreamy, stream of consciousness video also shows the artist drawing circles within circles  that suggest the poet’s description of Hell and Purgatory.   Despite these literal moments, however, Jonas’ installation on the [...]

Jay Walker’s sartorial-themed paintings, drawings and sculpture at James Oliver Gallery do not make for a cheery show although what’s on view is worth a visit.  The life-sized depictions of clothing in stark relief against voids of space are brooding and iconic.  In shades of black, white and grey, the hoodies, Matrix-like dusters, a hospital [...]

The Hover Project is an investigation into the liberties and terrors of wiki-history on the telling and inventing of narratives. It is a sandbox for written and image based works which will challenge the backward, forward, and sideways-ness of history.<br />
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The impetus for this project is an amalgamation of Dos Passos’ and a website based on the work of On Kawara (onKawara update). Both works explore the experience of history and time as a fragmentary object.<br />
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Submitted works will be reviewed between five minutes and god knows how long. Potential research resources are listed on the links page. Accepted works will appear on the calendar in relation to date. No years are allowed unless they come in teams, gaggles, or murders.<br />
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De-Nature, the seven-person group show at Jolie Laide, demonstrates how artists love to mess around, ie transform or de-nature things, on the way to creating something new. Guest curator Wendy White is a New York artist, and most of the artists are New Yorkers with track records exhibiting in and around the Big Apple.  So [...]

Silvia Popp is a video/action artist based in Zurich, Switzerland. Some of her recent projects include STUDIO ACTION, Pamela’s Boutique, Leerstand (Vacancy), and Liberation Station. STUDIO ACTION is collaborative initiative co-created by Zurich artists  Popp and Anja Moers. The group runs with the motto “Think. Talk, Act.” Lily Rossebo: “Action Art” is not a term [...]

A macroscopic look at the microscopic world, Troupe de Fetishe, a video installation involving a tiny flea circus projected onto the 100-foot-long, 25-foot-high east wall of the Icebox at Crane Arts, is just the latest in a string of entomological art that’s been exhibited in Philly.** Right now you can also see Jennifer Angus’ miniature [...]

It’s antihero time at Grizzly Grizzly—in video, two artists parody classic heroes with acts of mock-heroism against the non-monsters of clutter, trash and darkness. Chris Carroll’s short videos deal with the man/nature relationship, all ominous foreplay with no payback. In his Branta Branta series, a two-second clip of a goose attacking a goose decoy is [...]

Hundreds of shows open in Philadelphia this fall, far too many to include in this short roundup. Six shows caught my fancy, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg. Nowhere at Arcadia (Sept. 23-Nov. 7. arcadia.edu) Remember that map you drew on a napkin to direct a friend to your house? Its cousin, created [...]

Thanks.Frank, an outpouring of love for retired Tyler School of Art painting prof Frank Bramblett, honors a beloved educator and raconteur known for his wit, compassion and deep thinking about art, culture and society. (Full disclosure: In 2006, I co-taught one semester of senior painting studio with Bramblett and Libby Rosof.) Tyler alums put out [...]

new prints available including the “Do Not Enter signs”

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Mike Wallace at the Museum of Modern Art’s 1965 “The Responsive Eye” exhibition for CBS, Part 1
12:51 PM Update: Greg Allen, who originally came across the video, has done a massive, wonderful post about the history of the television program, its fabulous soundtrack, and the connection between MoMA and CBS.
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With an American flag at its heart and a jaunty colored brick road on the floor, Abigail DeVille’s Gold Mountain should be upbeat. But the dark, cave-like installation at Marginal Utility is a sorrowful piece, a shrine almost. And the flag and crazy brick road are degraded symbols. Gold Mountain is a hell on earth. [...]

Mosaic in Passerelle Plaza, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York. Photo: 16 Miles
August 23 Update: New York City Department of Parks & Recreation spokesperson Vickie Karp and John Krawchuk, the department’s Director of Historic Preservation, have confirmed that the mosaics were installed about ten years ago and were restored last year. Mosaic maker Michael Golden [...]

Most shows consist of unpacking some canvases and choosing where to put them and how to light them. Schoony’s upcoming group show ‘Boy Soldiers’ is totally different to this tried and trusted approach - he’s been busy mass producing well over…

Portugal Arte 10 is a new biennial show of contemporary art in Lisbon. One of the most spectacular works on display is Temple (2010), a site-specific environment by the Brooklyn-based artist collective FAILE (Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller). FAILE’s Temple is a full-scale church in ruins in Praça dos Restauradores Square, one of the major [...]