January 2012 Archive

Last call for Safari tickets. Better hurry!!!!

Artblog Art Safari tickets are going fast–only six seats remain on the June 1 tour. The other three safaris are sold out. But the good news is we’ve got a special guest coming along on that June 1 tour, Philadelphia Chief Cultural Officer Gary Steuer. Here’s his blog. To reserve your seat, contact us quick at libbyandroberta@gmail.com. Put SAFARI TICKETS in the subject line to insure prompt attention to your request. Only $20/ticket.  

A newsier artblog–it’s better!

People have said to us they like the flow of the new artblog.  We like it too! Here are some of the great, useful new features of our new redesign in a tick list to help you go with the flow so to speak: News posts always at the top left of the front page–We’ve been bringing you news tidbits on Fridays, since last April, with opportunities for artists, news of Philly artists showing out of town, and news of happenings mostly in town but occasionally beyond. People seem to like these posts a lot. So we’ve put them in ... More » »

New podcast – Tim Belknap on teaching kids about space as Astronaut Tim

In early December Tim Belknap set up a small, pretend space station inside Temple Gallery that was an almost-convincing replica of the real thing. He called the set piece Destiny Module, a reference to the US Space Station’s Science Lab.  Destiny Module was part of Belknap’s project to beam himself as Astronaut Tim into a Philadelphia 4th grade classroom for a science talk.  All this would be done via the magic of a live Skype video feed.  Tim — who is not an astronaut but an artist and Fleisher Challenge winner with a mischievous sense of play and a self-created ... More » »

Vox’s four January artists – Investigators of things great and small

[This post was scheduled to go up yesterday but couldn't because of our hosting outage. Hope you got to see the show-yesterday was its last day.] The four featured artists at Vox Populi this month present four discrete bodies of work in each of Vox’s four gallery spaces. If there is a commonality it’s that the artists all seem to be seekers, after some truth–psychological or cosmic. That, and they all have MFAs from high powered institutions (Yale, Columbia, VCU). Perhaps the most engaging, because of its accessible narrative edge and cartoonish style, is Guy Ben-Ari‘s mostly grizaille paintings. With ... More » »

After an 18-hour outage, we’re back again!

Dear all, if you visited us yesterday you know we were not around.  Our hosting service had a big crash that took 18 hours to fix.  But hooray, they fixed it and we are back.  It was a very frustrating day but onward!

The real Zoe Strauss show

[Note: This is a republish of a post that got lost in the transition to our new format.] Billboards, dances, office hours, Megawords installation, the artist’s own blog–these may seem like the sideshow for Zoe Strauss’ photography exhibit, 10 Years, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. But we think it is an integral part of the art itself. After all, Strauss conceived of her Under I-95 exhibits, which lasted 10 years, before she even owned a camera.   The photographs were a part of something bigger, part of a grand vision of uniting all the people of Philadelphia–especially the forgotten, ... More » »

News – FiberPhiladelphia, new Woodmere curator, art replaces nightclubs, and more!

News FiberPhiladelphia gets underway March is fast approaching, and so are a number of events as part of FiberPhiladelphia, the annual Philadelphia textile and fiber arts festival. In fact, Mayor Nutter will kick off the March 2 ceremony at Moore College of Art and Design by proclaiming March 2012 as Fiber Arts Month. The first event is the opening of In Material: Fiber 2012 on Friday, January 27 at Arthur Ross Gallery. New curator at Woodmere Matthew U. Palczynski is the new curator at the Woodmere Art Museum. Palczynski was most recently the Staff Lecturer for Western Art at the Philadelphia Museum of ... More » »

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 ... More » »

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

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, send us a note or put it in comments.  Comments are now working!  Your friends, Libby and Roberta

New changes coming to artblog!

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 new design today–so we won’t be accepting comments for the next 24-36 hours.  Come back tomorrow for delicious content in our brand, spanking-new design!  And thanks for reading artblog.  Your friends, Libby and Roberta