Besides contemporary art, his particular interests are photography, American art of the 19th Century and crafted art of all periods and cultures. Before becoming a critic, he taught college-level writing and worked as a graphic designer.
Award money goes extreme, the competition criteria and selection processes dubious.
When I learned that Ryan Trecartin was one of three finalists for the $150,000 Wolgin art prize - awarded for the first time last month - I should have put down a bet with someone that he would win. His exhibition in May at the Fabric Workshop and Museum indicated he should be the odds-on favorite.
Barkley L. Hendricks' portraits of African Americans capture a changing culture.
Barkley L. Hendricks has achieved something relatively rare among artists: He has created paintings that capture the essence of an American cultural transformation.
- Photographer Frederick Sommer at the Art Museum.Among the various photography exhibitions in town, the show for Frederick Sommer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art may be the most elegant, the most concise in terms of defining a career, and the most memorable in terms of its creative invention.
- The powerful paintings from a brilliant, brief life form a masterful, must-see exhibit at the Art Museum.Make the strongest effort to see the spectacular Arshile Gorky exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Not only does it contain an abundance of powerful, lyrical abstract painting, it tells a poignant and ultimately tragic story of how a poor, proud immigrant methodically and diligently transformed himself into one of the most influential artists of the last century.
- Fabric Workshop brings together artists with a broad ethnic and geographic range.'New American Voices" is the kind of exhibition we have come to expect from the Fabric Workshop and Museum, in that it features a relatively few large, sometimes complex, works. Three of the five featured artists represent minorities - two are American Indian and one is Latino - and consequently offer a less-familiar cultural bias.
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It's curious that none of the three finalists for the first Jack Wolgin international fine arts prize of $150,000, to be awarded Oct. 22, works in traditional art media. The prize was announced last year as intending to reward "new ways of working within the mediums of painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, metals, glass and/or fibers."
- Art Museum salutes '60s and '70s; Woodmere's Triennial surveys current work.Photography is making waves in Philadelphia this fall, which is as it should be, given the city's contributions to the medium over the decades.
- An exhibition shows the enduring legacy of Julius Rosenwald in black art history.Grants and fellowships for artists have become so ubiquitous that for the younger generation, at least, it must seem as if they have always existed. But of course they haven't - otherwise, Picasso and his ilk wouldn't have had to scuffle to survive until they became commercially viable.
- An ICA program explores how video, as the sole audience, influences performance.Dancing usually presumes an audience capable of responding to a performance in real time, perhaps even energizing the dancers with their enthusiasm. But what happens when the "audience" is a machine - specifically a still, film, or video camera? What kind of result does that circumstance produce?
- A Delaware show shines a light on the theft of ideas - not a felony in the art world.Among writers, copying someone else's work is called plagiarism, and is considered dishonorable. In art, however, stealing ideas is called "appropriation," and is considered legitimate, even clever.
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Meandering through "Locally Localized Gravity" at the Institute of Contemporary Art is like visiting a summer art camp while all the kiddies are at lunch. There's a makeshift stage mounted on plastic milk crates, television sets scattered throughout that play continuously, and lots of signs hanging from wires and pinned to the walls. Some have been made by visitors, and you're welcome to add your own contribution.
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