“Las tierras pertenecen a sus dueños, pero el paisaje es de quien sabe apreciarlo. / The lands belong to their owners, but the landscape is from the one who knows how to appreciate it.” Upton Sinclair To appreciate nature is to know yourself, your most inner admiration of what is around you. Alison Daubercies is […]
One could say that sculptor Michael McGinnis has the looks of a wizard. A ring of gray hair encircles his head and he sports a fuzzy, salt and pepper beard that extends down his thin neck. Frameless, untinted glasses highlight the curious twinkle in his eye as he enthusiastically fields all the questions I hurl […]
Our Philadelphia winter was recently interrupted by unseasonably warm weather. Perfect timing to kick off my hunt for public installations associated with the Barnes Foundation’s Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, which opened on February 25th. The “flâneur” references Charles Baudelaire’s 1863 essay “The Painter of Modern Life” in which he describes […]
