Arts

In 2003, Pigford left his job at a hip, lucrative graphic design company to make fine art. Weird fine art — the kind that buzzes and moves and asks you to touch it. "Art shouldn't just be something you look at," he says. "It's something you experience. It's an interface."

Martin McNamara is excited to host the newest crop of fine art photographers at his gallery, without the responsibilities that come with representing artists long-term. He also likes taking a step, albeit a brief one, so far beyond the boundaries of what a commercial art gallery exhibits.

Five months ago, Darla Jackson created "A Miniature Ocean," inspired by a book she read that compared the growing belly of an expecting mother to a miniature ocean.

History comes into play when Group Motion Dance Co., as part of Hidden City Philadelphia's closing weekend, collaborates with abstract, site-based choreographer Wally Cardona and innovative performance composer Phil Kline.

Artists Ed Looram, Isaac Ramos, Jeremy Dean, Lorin Brown and Nick Hans remember a time before the words "iPod" and "Internet" were crammed into their vocabularies.

Dylan Vitone, in capturing the dreariness of depressed urban landscapes, utilizes ultrachrome prints produced from eight disparate images to render a 360-degree view.