The current renovation of the Wedding Cake House in Providence, Rhode Island, provides an opportunity to consider the beneficial impacts of feminist architecture projects in the US.
Author Archives: Deborah Krieger
Deborah Krieger is currently a student in Brown University’s Public Humanities MA Program, the Curatorial Fellow at Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery, and a freelance arts and culture writer. Previously, she was the curatorial assistant at the Delaware Art Museum from 2017–2019, and a Fulbright grantee to Vienna, Austria, from 2016–2017.
A Photography Display Infused with the Scent of Flowers
The combination of photography with scent is a curious, if slightly unsettling one.
From Henry Clay Frick to Gilded Matzah, Observing the World in Glass Cases
PHILADELPHIA — Upon entering Joshua Reiman’s inventive new show Glass Houses at the Napoleon Gallery, the first thing that strikes you is one of sound rather than vision: a steady, persistent drip-drip-drip of water into a tank.
Securing a Place in History for a Forgotten Female Painter
PHILADELPHIA — Located in the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Quita Brodhead: Bold Strokes shines a welcome light on a painter who displayed a level of ingenuity and skill in a range of styles, one who strangely has little name recognition in the United States today.
A Visual History of Federal Art Spending in the United States
PHILADELPHIA — Art for Society’s Sake: The WPA and Its Legacy, on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts through April 6th, recalls an era in this country when the dissemination of art was a governmental duty, with the arts substantially funded on the federal level.