Stop. Look. Listen.

In Art Harrington’s new March show at the Red Raven Gallery, the “2 Perspectives” of the title seem to apply to two groups of works on opposite walls. One group is colorful views of farmland and housing developments; the other is a group of more abstract mixed-media works on plexiglas. Aerial perspective mingles with medieval […]

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective” ends its run Jan. 10, and if you haven’t seen it yet, you should. It’s the very model of how an exhibition should be put together, illuminating Gorky’s awe-inspiring work and heartbreaking life and bringing a sometimes-marginalized figure into the forefront. My story here, and more information here.

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Luke D. Yocum, a native of Central Pennsylvania, has been to New York City and back, and now has a show at the Infantree Gallery, “Unchained and Melting Down.” While in New York City, he gained recognition as a street artist, selling small-format paintings on paper from clotheslines and tables in the Lower East Side […]

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For visitors center fans … there’s a new one at Monticello, opening Wednesday, April 15. Details here. 

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OK, the rain’s cleared up and I’m hopeful it will stay that way, because it’s First Friday and time to check out what the galleries have in store. As always, LancasterArts has its First Friday guide here. A few highlights: Live 1940s pin-up girls at Annex 24, 24 W. Walnut St. … Youth art, dance and […]

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The Colorado Quartet presented a very meditative, moving conclusion to the Gretna Music’s 2008-2009 season at Elizabethtown College Sunday evening with Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross.” The work is framed by an introduction and a dramatic finale, and four local clergymen — Father David Danneker, Pastor William N. […]

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The new Rosa Rosa Late Jazz club held a preview Thursday — here are a few scenes, featuring Mayor Rick Gray getting ready to cut the ribbon and the Max Puglia Quartet in performance. The club will open to the public tonight (Friday, March 27), with the Tim Warfield Band performing at 10:30 and Max Puglia […]

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“I’m making everyone work harder this time,” says Tim Nies, whose current show at the Mulberry Art Studios, “Dichotomy,” combines elements of installation, collage, found art and painting.
Dichotomy binds us together and tears us apart, Nies says in his artist’s statement: “Dichotomy describes plant and cell growth, astronomical phenomenon and the mutually exclusive contradiction of […]

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In “Paper, Light and Shadow,” artist A. Paul Lambert, inspired by Dale Chihuly and other glass artists, has created forms in paper that play off translucency and opacity in a similar manner, sculptures that are sometimes lit from within. “I really wanted the shadows to speak for themselves … I really like black and white,” […]

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My review of Sunday’s second Chamber Music Series concert is posted here. The next concert won’t be until May 17, with two big works planned: Brahm’s Sextet in B flat Major, Op. 18 and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence Sextet in D Minor, Op. 70. Details here. So far, so good: I hope the LSO does this […]

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