Stop. Look. Listen.

The City Arts Market opens. Food, crafts, music and the Science Factory, too! Saturday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 308 E. King St.
Back to the Past Block Party, Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 300 block of North Queen Street. Performers include vintage rockers the Silver Hawks, the Bensens, Rufus J. Fisk, DJ Image, the Barnstormers’ Cylo, the Honkaphone Man (street performer contest winner) […]

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An improbable instrumentalist. (Thanks to the Collaborative Piano Blog)

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I hadn’t visited Gallery 141, 113 N. Water St., Lancaster, for a while, so last Friday I stopped by and found, not only a display of paintings by Jacques Abreu, but the artist himself, offering information on the Chabod Academy of the Arts and its upcoming performances (see below).
He describes his paintings as “the story of […]

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Want to take “an exciting journey through 300 years of music for solo violin — from Bach to Piazzolla?” That’s what violinist Odin Rathnam has planned for his recital 3 p.m. Sunday, June 1, at the Forum in Harrisburg. Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 for students, and $140 premium (which includes a private reception). […]

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There is an element of abstraction haunting the paintings of Philadelphian Arcenio Martin Campos, now at the Gallery dePaul, 226 N. Arch St., providing the space for the viewer to fill in the stories his figures tell. The realistic figures float in empty, but colorful, space, barely touching the ground, or emerging from murky backgrounds, with elements […]

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The boundaries between high art and small business, conceptualizing and everyday life, are broken in Cottage Industry, a new exhibit opening at Baltimore’s Contemporary Museum June 1.
The exhibit will feature 6 artists and artist collaboratives “that have merged art with business by creating small shops, business ventures and alternative cultural institutions,” according to a museum press release. From […]

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Senior Show at PCA&D. Closes Friday.
Big Brothers Big Sisters - Lancaster Through Our Eyes, at the Infantree. Closes Saturday.

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The Musser Park Civic Association is looking for crafters for the craft show at the park’s annual Olde Fashioned 4th of July event. More information is available here, along with an entry form.
Independence Day does fall on a Friday this year, and LancasterARTS wants to inform the public that downtown Lancaster’s First Friday will go […]

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Could a case in Montana provide a strategy for those fighting to keep the Barnes Foundation in Merion? Read more here.

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I wrote a review of this weekend’s Lancaster Symphony Orchestra concerts, which is being published in today’s New Era, but there were a few things I didn’t have room for. One was to note Ian Hobson’s encore, Sergey Rachmaninoff’s arrangement of Fritz Kreisler’s Liebesleid, in a performance that was one of the highlights of the […]

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