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Graceful abstract 49-inch-high steel sculpture. Lines tipped by small balls arch in many directions from a rectangular frame

The Delaware Art Museum presents Stan Smokler: Steel in Flux

A galvanizing show
Sculptor Stan Smokler, who has worked in Chester County for more than 20 years, comes to the Delaware Art Museum with Steel in Flux, whose found-object abstractions are almost impossible not to touch. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 3 minute read
Scene from the show. Zinkel sits and Lamm leans on an ornate couch, both looking to the side, Zinkel blissful, Lamm skeptical

People’s Light presents Paul Osborn’s The Vinegar Tree

American intellectual comedy
People’s Light revives The Vinegar Tree, a rarely staged comedy of manners by a playwright who was America’s answer to Shaw and Coward. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 4 minute read
The book cover. The title, in large white letters, is superimposed on a painting of a woman’s face.

Five-Part Invention, by Andrea J. Buchanan

Parents are people, too
Trauma and abuse, as well as the practice of healing, reverberate through five generations of women in Five-Part Invention, a new novel by Philadelphia writer Andrea J. Buchanan. Kirsten Bowen reviews.
Kirsten Bowen

Kirsten Bowen

Reviews 3 minute read
Fine-lined black-and-white print of a close-up view of an amaryllis flower, resembling a lily.

Penn’s Ross Gallery presents From Studio to Doorstep: Associated American Artists Prints, 1934-2000

Democratizing American art
This new exhibition of diverse and notable 19th-century prints explores an important corner of American art, when a Depression-era brainstorm made buying fine art accessible to the people. Pamela Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read

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Four rows and four columns of a tree-like shape stenciled with various shades of black and gray, the title 'thrum' is in red

thrum, by Jon Chaiim McConnell

A timely take on contemporary crisis
The debut work from the Delaware-based author takes on climate change with interweaving dystopian but contemporary stories. Nick Joseph reviews.
Nick Joseph

Nick Joseph

Reviews 4 minute read
A view of the gallery: bright white room with windows and plants on a center table. Dozens of news clippings on the wall.

The Print Center presents A Brand New End: Survival and its Pictures

Women’s (liberation) work
With A Brand New End: Survival and its Pictures, the Print Center takes a deep dive into a visual archive of how domestic abuse survivors and advocates support each other and work for change. Pamela J. Forsythe reviews.

Pamela J. Forsythe

Reviews 5 minute read
Book cover. On a peach background, title & author appear in pale green, with a black & white illustration of 2 people kissing

Little Rabbit, by Alyssa Songsiridej

Power plays
Intimacy, identity, and class complicate the relationships of the artists at the center of Little Rabbit, a novel by Philadelphia writer Alyssa Songsiridej. Kirsten Bowen reviews.
Kirsten Bowen

Kirsten Bowen

Reviews 3 minute read
Rehearsal. In a sculptural pose, 5 dancers lift a 6th up. She balances with her arms outstretched. They wear black leotards

Anne-Marie Mulgrew & Dancers Company presents Beautiful Chaos

The possibility of uncertainty
AMM & DCO explores the beauty, hope, and connection that can emerge from chaos in its Home Season Concert Project 35, featuring the premiere of the full-length work Beautiful Chaos. Melissa Strong reviews.
Melissa Strong

Melissa Strong

Reviews 6 minute read
A Grandma Moses work shows rolling hills crisscrossed by woods and farms, like a quilt, and 2 black horses in the foreground

The Brandywine River Museum of Art presents Dawoud Bey and Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America

Making their presence known
Two exhibitions at the Brandywine River Museum of Art demonstrate bold curatorial vision, with Dawoud Bey: Night Coming Tenderly, Black and Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America. Gail Obenreder reviews.
Gail Obenreder

Gail Obenreder

Reviews 5 minute read
Stage scene: 3 actors, a white man, a Black man, and a white woman, stand in a 70s kitchen. McCall holds a lamb in his arms

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class

Still a giant of the genre
EgoPo Classic Theater finally concludes its survey of Sam Shepard with his brutal, bitingly funny Curse of the Starving Class. Cameron Kelsall reviews.
Cameron Kelsall

Cameron Kelsall

Reviews 3 minute read