Stop. Look. Listen.

There’s still time to get a switchplate ready for  the Pfenninger Gallery’s annual charity exhibition and sale. Anyone can enter; the deadline is April 15, and guidelines can be found here. This year, the exhibition and sale will benefit Milagro House, which helps homeless women and children in Lancaster, Pa. And that’s not all: Lancaster […]

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The music fit the surroundings Sunday afternoon.
Violinist Christopher Brooks and composer/pianist Simon Andrews joined forces in a thoughtful performance of chamber works at Wheatland Presbyterian Church on Columbia Avenue in Lancaster. (The clear-glass windows and colonnaded area behind the pulpit convey an unusually neoclassical air to the spacious, resonant sanctuary.)
Chronologically, the program covered a huge […]

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There’s still some time left to catch up with the March shows before April moves in on us, and “Forbidden Firsts: Jazz at Marshall’s” is worth a second look before it closes in a week. The Demuth Foundation’s annual invitational show took as its theme this year Charles Demuth’s trips to New York city in […]

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News about exhibit opportunities. One is coming right up, so read on …
The Space is looking for artworks to be shown in storefront windows during Art Walk 2007. The project is open to all artists age 18 or over “within driving distance” of Lancaster, Pa. Proposals are due by March 23 (Friday). Check the link […]

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In its somewhat out-of-the-way location in southwest Lancaster, the Parlor Art Space is an appropriate spot for a set of quiet works by local artist Harriet Hacker, who teaches at Harrisburg Area Community College’s Lancaster campus.
The 15 works of “Transmutations,” her reflections on a transient culture’s effect on community, family and friends, are done in […]

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If you don’t have a wax figure somewhere in your home or office – and chances are, unless you
are Madame Tussaud, you don’t – here’s your chance to get one. Most of the contents of the
Discover Lancaster County History Museum will go on the auction block Saturday, May 19, with
previews set Sunday, May 6 and […]

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A visit to the Landis Valley Museum on a sunny Sunday Charter Day. It was packed with people watching the blacksmith at work, wandering in and out of the buildings, getting up close and personal with pigs and horses (and not so close to the sheep, who preferred to doze in the sun), checking out the pair […]

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Matt Chambers, watercolor painter and one of the Red Raven Art Company’s group of artists, has never shied away from a little humor in his work, but it has often been allusive and ambiguous – a dinosaur in the distance, a tiny dog in a boat afloat on a river.
In his new show, “Beyond Blue,” […]

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A view of a portion of the new show at the Pfenninger Gallery.

Opening night at the Julia Swartz Gallery on Prince Street last Friday.  

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During Friday night’s Lancaster Symphony Orchestra concert conductor Stephen Gunzenhauser advised the audience, in his introductory remarks to Tchaikovsky’s 6th Symphony, to not clap after the third movement, even though it sounds like the symphony is coming to a conclusion. The audience nodded meekly and did wait until the fading heartbeats of the fourth movement to […]

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