Posts By libby and roberta

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 » »

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 » »

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  

Tim Belknap, next up on our podcast series, artblog radio

In early December Tim Belknap set up a small, brightly-lit open-walled cube inside Temple Gallery that was an almost-convincing replica of a space capsule. The cube, no longer there, was called the Destiny Module, a reference to the US Space Station’s Science Lab, and was part of Belknap’s project to beam Astronaut Tim via Skype video into a Philadelphia 4th grade classroom for a science talk.    Tim — who is not a scientist or astronaut but an artist and Fleisher Challenge winner with a mischievous sense of play — harnessed himself to a cable attached to heavy metal beams ... More » »

Podcast redux–no such thing as too much Zoe Strauss

Missed our interview with Zoe Strauss? Here it is again–in honor of her show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that opened Saturday: Artist Zoe Strauss was preparing for her important mid-career retrospective, Zoe Strauss: Ten Years, when we talked to her at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  The exhibit opens at the PMA Jan. 14, 2012, but Strauss was hard at work in August, getting ready. As excited as she was about the upcoming show, she was even more excited about the part of the show that was going to go up on billboards around Philadelphia, where the general ... More » »

Josh Mosley, the thinking-man’s animation artist–on artblog radio

Joshua Mosley’s animations are often of anti-heroes puzzling out the challenges of what it means to be human and to think. Charming and challenging all at once, his videos were shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale and in museums around the world. Here in Philadelphia he has shown at the ICA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The work begins with a real world presence–sculptures and drawings. But then the animations go into the computer. As in his videos, in conversation he rarely grabs for easy answers. Below is a short clip from the interview. Click “read more” for the ... More » »