Stop. Look. Listen.

That’s right, Glass as in Philip Glass. Violinist Maria Bachmann, performing with Jon Klibonoff, piano, will be performing a new work, Duo No. 1 for Violin & Piano, Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg, part of the Market Square Concert series. The work was commissioned for the 70th birthday of Market Square […]

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art makes its case for Paul Cézanne as a painter of enormous influence in “Cézanne and Beyond,” a big exhibit opening Thursday which not only gathers 40 paintings and 20 watercolors and drawings by Cézanne and many more by artists inspired by him, but ranges across the 20th century and even into […]

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The RSO is going around the world — more info here.

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Youtube Orchestra in, Muzak out. (Links via Artsjournal.com)

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Already established in Harrisburg and York, Progressive Galleries has opened a Lancaster branch at 323 N. Queen St. in the Candy Factory space in the Keppel Building. Hours are Tuesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
 Tonight (Feb. 13) is the eighth annual HeART of Friendship benefit auction at Mulberry Art Studios; details here. Also […]

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New York City-based photographer Lori Nix has great fun setting up her tabletop dioramas of death and destruction and photographing them. Her large-format prints are on display through Feb. 20 at the Pa. College of Art & Design in “The City and Other Places.” I visited the exhibit Friday, Feb. 6 for an interview with […]

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Sue Coe will be giving a talk at Albright College Feb. 26 in conjunction with an exhibit of her prints at the college’s Freedman Gallery. Details here. Coe’s work deals graphically and expressionistically with oppression and injustice in the tradition of Goya and Kollwitz.

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…or, more First Friday snapshots.
Here’s Nicole Longenecker, emerging artist of the month at the Red Raven Art Company, 138 N. Prince St., with some of her mixed-media works. “Geometric Obsession” (right) features acrylic paint and fabric recycled from other sources (including an old pillowcase) hand-stitched onto the canvas, part of her continuing experiments with new textures and […]

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Andrew Wyeth’s last painting will be on display at the Brandywine River Museum through Sunday, Feb. 8.

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Opera fans take note: Lucia Di Lammermoor live Met broadcast at Penn Cinema 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7. Details here.
Market goes medieval: Veritas Academy students singing in the aisles at Central Market last Saturday promoting their Valentine Madrigal Feast, to be held Feb. 13 and 14 at the Inn of Leola Village. Tickets are $35 per person and can be […]

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