Nora Grace-Flood

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News Reporter at New Haven Independent

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Articles

If, Ands & Butts

2 weeks ago | midbrow.org | Nora Grace-Flood

Total ModelingStudio 344522 Baltimore Ave. PhiladelphiaSeen April 3, 2025Showing April 3 and 4Is this guy gonna flash us? That was my dominating thought while watching “Total Modeling,” a cybernetics-themed clown show running for two days at Studio 34 as part of Philly Theater Week. Spoiler alert: You do get a direct look at Benjamin Stieler’s butt by the end of the performance. You fortunately don’t have to worry about facing a frontal view.
The Eggbeater Revolution

3 weeks ago | midbrow.org | Nora Grace-Flood

Wanda Gag: Art for Life’s SakePhiladelphia Museum of Art2600 Benjamin Franklin PkwyPhiladelphiaShowing through June 1, 2025Seen March 31In Wanda Gag’s world, an eggbeater is more than a blender — it’s a centerpiece. Eggbeaters, kerosene lamps, sinks and soap dishes are the kind of mundane subjects that the artist sought to bring alive through her rolling and lively black-ink style developed during the early 20th century.
Pizza and Tums

3 weeks ago | midbrow.org | Nora Grace-Flood

Performance artist Francesca Montanile Lyons took to the stage in an oversized tee shirt, hair piled in a messy bun and nails drying a wet shade of blue, and binge ate an entire pizza while blasting Gilmore Girls and making baggy eye contact with the crowd. “It’s you!” my roommate whispered into my ear. “Uh, no it’s not,” I stuttered back in self-defense.
Life Off Earth

1 month ago | midbrow.org | Nora Grace-Flood

Alfred Rosenbluth: "Heaven Above, The Lake Below"Pentimenti Art Gallery145 North Second St.PhiladelphiaSeen March. 25Showing March 21 — May 3, 2025Some things are not meant to make sense. That philosophy could be extended to the absurd nature of life itself; or to Alfred Rosenbluth’s surrealist art exhibit, “Heaven Above, The Lake Below,” currently showing at Pentimenti Art Gallery.
Dreams Of Earth And Sky

1 month ago | midbrow.org | Nora Grace-Flood

Liisa Nelson, "Dreams"The Clay Studio1425 N American St.PhiladelphiaSeen March 12, 2025Showing from January 15 - March 30, 2025I have no dream car, but I’ve found my fantasy vanity plate. I discovered the vehicle tag for sale while visiting The Clay Studio, and hallucinated how I'd drive with it attached to my back. The license plate is all letters, no numbers. Six characters spelling “SPECIAL” in metallic uppercase. A gold glob of a star on top, alluding to my snowflake state of being.
Where The Sidewalk Cracks

1 month ago | midbrow.org | Nora Grace-Flood

An Adult Evening of Shel SilversteinSkinner Studio1714 Delancey PlacePhiladelphiaSeen March 10Showing March 10 - March 14Buy tickets here“If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer… if you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire. For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!” That’s the generous introduction to Shel Silverstein’s famed poetry collection, Where the Sidewalk Ends.
Spoiled Flora

1 month ago | midbrow.org | Nora Grace-Flood

Philadelphia Flower ShowPennsylvania Convention Center1101 Arch St.PhiladelphiaVisited March 1Showing through March 9, 2025I briefly believed I had been born again when I stepped off the Septa into a mossy oasis of Japanese forest regeneration — until I woke up to pathways blocked by silver trophies and realized I misread the trail signage as litter.
DIY Crowd Control

1 month ago | midbrow.org | Nora Grace-Flood

Openers can be headliners, too. Even, or especially, at a record release. Carnatic rock crew KulfiGirls, whom this site has previously lauded for their genre-sweeping examinations of pop n’ roll, celebrated the publication of their debut album at Johnny Brenda’s on Sunday by sharing the spotlight with two other local bands: Kikashima and Kelsey Cork & The Swigs. It was “K” to the third power, and the party was unrelenting.
Spore One For Subtlety

2 months ago | midbrow.org | Nora Grace-Flood

Cerulean Arts Gallery1355 Ridge Ave. PhiladelphiaSeen Feb. 20, 2025Showing from Jan. 29 - Feb. 23Wallflowers might go unnoticed, but they hold hidden worlds within. Andie Olsen’s intricate floral compositions are a testament to that truth. They’re now on display as part of a three-person show at Cerulean Arts Gallery titled, “A World of One’s Own.”At first glance, the energetic sketches of leaves, blossoms and mushrooms look like samples of ornate wallpaper.
Smokestack Romance

2 months ago | midbrow.org | Nora Grace-Flood

John Moore: CharcoalsLocks Gallery600 S. Washington SquarePhiladelphiaFeb. 18, 2025If there’s one architectural motif I’ve come to associate most closely with Pennsylvania, it’s smokestacks. As our image of Philadelphia expands into late capitalist contemporaneity, the state’s industrial past remains a familiar fixture forever visible on the city’s skyline. Factory chimneys were also the first feature I noticed in artist John Moore’s portraits of post-industrial America.