Stop. Look. Listen.

Didn’t get to the Rumschpringe Very Short Film Festival last weekend? It’s begin reprised tonight and Saturday at Building Character, (details here) and there’s also a Sunday showing at Penn Cinema at 7 p.m.

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There’s a new event on the horizon: Artists’ Saturday, March 29. According to a press release from the Downtown Lancaster Improvement District, the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. event will feature gallery talks, demonstrations and works in progress. See LancasterARTS.com for more information and for a list of participating galleries. I’ll have more on this […]

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Lost TCM in Comcast’s latest switcheroo, haven’t hooked up your digital converter box yet and need a classic-movie fix? Check out this series at Penn Cinema, 541 Airport Road, Lititz. The theater has been partnering with Heart of Lancaster County for a Monday night film series at 7 p.m. The next one will be “Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan,” March 3; […]

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Giant diatoms? Artifacts of a vanished civilization? Whatever they are, the hand-built red clay creations in Shayla Marsh’s “Semantics,” one of four separate shows at the Lancaster Museum of Art nearing the end of their run, make a fascinating installation. The installation “explores the meaning of words” through the interplay of form, textures and colors. The positive-negative ceramic […]

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The New York Philharmonic’s concert in North Korea will be broadcast tonight (Thursday, March 28) on “Great Performances” on WITF at 9 p.m. On the program: Dvorak, Wagner, Gershwin.

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Read about the trip here and here. (And Alex Ross summarizes the opinions for you, here.)
Photo: The audience stands and applauds during a concert by the New York Philharmonic in Pyongyang, North Korea on Tuesday, Feb. 26. (AP)

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Subtly contrasting and beautifully modulated colors are the hallmark of the painter Brenton Good, whose works are now on view at the Infantree gallery in downtown Lancaster. The title of the show, “Chance & the Grid,” indicates the attractive opposites of Good’s paintings and monoprints. The monoprints, made by rolling ink over playing cards, are […]

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Dede Reed’s photographs of books hover just past the limits of legibility, resting on surfaces and in space that seem unbounded. In “Dede Reed: of Books and Memory” at the Gallery dePaul, fruit joins the books in soft-edge still lifes set against fields of intense, almost pastel-like colors. (Recipients of the exhibit’s postcard might be pardoned […]

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Three artists represented by three different fields of art have combined their inspirations for an event at Lebanon Valley College tonight. California Poet Sally McNall was inspired by six words - revenge, remorse, repentance, regret, remembrance and release - to write a poem called “Six Wooden Blocks.” The poem in turn inspired a painting by LVC artist-in-residence […]

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With the stepping down of Fidel Castro, there’s a certain timeliness to “Cuba: Through My Eyes,” a show of black-and-white photographs by Javier Machado, running through March 7 in the Rothman Gallery of the Phillips Museum of Art at Franklin & Marshall College. Photographs of street life show “the idiosyncrasies of the survivors of an underground […]

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