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Listomania!

Visited the winning "In Front of Strangers, I Sing: 72nd Annual Juried Exhibition" at the Woodmere Art Museum where there were as many artists, possibly more, than less-creative patrons.

The Inquirer's gallery critic Edie Newall agrees in her review.

The most dazzling piece, in our humble opinion, is Frank Bramblett's Accomplished, 324 to-do lists — accomplished over 13 years, the tasks scratched out — patched together like an obsessive's black-ink quilt and occupying an entire wall.

The artist noted, "a testament to more than a decade of fulfillment." Bramblett, a teacher at Temple's Tyler School of Art, has resolved to give up making lists while asking the existential question: "If I wean myself off lists, do I do only meaningful things?"

The show runs through Sept. "The Promise of Peace: Violet Oakley's United Nations Portraits" is also great and closed at the end of June.

--Karen Heller