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by Marcus Civin
at Philadelphia Museum of Art May 5th, 2012 - August 12th, 2012
Posted 6/26/12

I dreamed about columns. As if pulled from the sea, solid pillars seemed to hover, a totem from some fantastic marshy planet. It had been a week since I’d wandered through Craft Spoken Here, curated by Elisabeth Agro at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Howard Ben Tré’s columnular Structure 23, 1984, was not the only work to haunt me; many works in the museum begged to be touched, handled, felt. Craft like this, made by hands, begs for hands. In the museum, I was glowering on the floor, who-knows-why-just-sen... [more]