Interview – Sarah Stolfa on making your own opportunity and printing for Zoe Strauss

For the Daily News article on the Philadelphia photography community I talked with a number of artists and others in that community. Here’s the first of several interviews I’ll put up in the next week or so. Others coming up are Martin McNamara, Stephen Perloff, Grisha Enikolopov, Al Wachlin, Jr and Harris Fogel.  Note: this post is a re-publish of one that was somehow vaporized in our recent blog transition. The day I talked with Sarah Stolfa of PPAC, their website had briefly crashed from all the traffic they were getting from Living Social, a coupon site, where they had ...

We’re back! Check out our new look and tell us what you think

By libby and roberta

Hey, check out our new pages of great content, now in a fantastic streamlined form.  Our tech guru, Samantha Slade, and her design partner Angela Miles, of Two Scarves did a fantastic job with the design.  And we are looking for your feedback.  See anything that’s wobbly, or a link that’s broken, ...

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New changes coming to artblog!

By libby and roberta

Dear readers, we are excited to announce we’ve done a redesign and are going to debut it very soon!  The artblog will continue to serve up great content by our wonderful team.  And soon the content will be packaged in a cool, new format.  We will be transitioning the blog to the ...

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1967 and 2011 – Nadia Hironaka and Matt Suib at Locks Gallery

By chip schwartz

The gigantic first floor space at Locks Gallery is occupied this month by the massive, multi-channel video installation 1967 by Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib. The collaborative project by the husband and wife team uses appropriated footage from cinema and protest videos to raise questions about political dissent, utopian movements and the ...

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Rivane Neuenschwander in Dublin, Lygia Pape in London, and a book on Art under Conditions of Political Repression

By andrea kirsh

Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other opened at the New Museum, New York in June, 2010 and I caught up with it at its final stop, the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA, on through January 29, 2012). Organized by the two museums, the exhibition was also seen in in St. ...

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London Drops an H-Bomb or Two

By stefan zebrowski-rubin

It is difficult to commute on the Tube everyday without seeing some mention of the upcoming 2012 Olympics. In light of this increased global attention and the spirit of the world’s nations coming together, I’d like to consider this year’s museum offerings and the subsequent pressure to represent England’s national identity.  Of ...

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