Posts By roberta
Roberta pauses for refreshment in Karlsruhe and Paris
Dear artblog readers, I will be absent for two weeks for some R&R in Germany and Paris. Stay cool (if there’s a heatwave) or warm (if there’s a cooling spell). I will post some pictures periodically and will have a report when I return. Below are a couple shots from our apartment windows in Karlsruhe, where Steve is visiting professor for the summer and Stella and I are visiting the visitor. Steve’s apartment is on Turmbergstrasse. And when they use berg in that name they are not kidding. Its a minor mountain you have to climb to get up here. ... More » »
Mixed doubles at Fjord – Dona Nelson, Kelly McRaven and Shanna Waddell
The impulse to paint runs strong and deep in the three artists on view at Fjord this month. Dona Nelson, Tyler faculty and influential teacher for both McRaven and Waddell, is showing three works from the 1980s, which, if you know her abstract, process-fueled contemporary works, are a revelation. These three Nelson paintings provide figures, recognizable imagery and narrative to propel your mind along. They are lushly and loosely painted and deal with something more metaphysical than just a real story or place or object. “Knotted Tree” (1981), a small work in black and white, is arguably more about the ... More » »
How to get considered for our picks – post your stuff on the artblog art calendar!
We will be picking the our picks next Monday, April 29 (we always pick the our picks the Monday before First Friday). Since we are using the artblog art calendar listings to make our choices, we hope you are posting your shows/events/lectures/workshops/concerts and other wonderful stuff on the calendar. BE SURE TO GET THEM IN THE CALENDAR SUNDAY NIGHT, APRIL 28 TO BE CONSIDERED MONDY APRIL 29. Below are instructions on how to register and post your stuff. Do it now, do it each month. We want to consider your show! ———————————— How to register and post your show/event/opportunity ... More » »
New York in March – Weather outside is frightful but inside so delightful
It rained, sleeted and snowed even, but we walked the High Line, ate at a nice noisy bistro downtown and loved drying off inside looking at some art. All in all a pretty great 24 hours. Friday, Mar. 15, 2013: The listing in the New Yorker was so intriguing Cate and I had to check it out. Experimental Philosophy, with 3D videos by experimental video maker Ben Coonley, at NYU. What on earth is experimental philosophy, we wondered, and how would it be captured in 3D video? Was someone pulling someone’s leg? Was it an art project? What it turned ... More » »
Fjord members Lindsay Chandler and A. J. Rombach on curating and Citywide – an artblog radio podcast
Lindsay Chandler and A. J. Rombach moved to Philadelphia after graduating from art school (Lindsay, from RISD, and A.J. from Boston University). They didn’t know each other before moving here but became friends through their network of artist friends. The two artists helped co-found Fjord space on Frankford Ave. last Spring, with a mission to curate other people’s art into the space and not their own. They have studio space in the building’s second floor and the gallery spans the entire first floor. We spoke with them on Feb. 20, at Fjord, where the show on the walls was Wandering ... More » »
From the vault – July 2003 posts by Judith Schaechter, Gerard Brown and others talking about nostalgia
[Ed. note: In celebration of artblog's 10-year anniversary, we are bringing you content from our inaugural year, 2003. July, 2003, was a month when we had a lot of contributions by local artist/writers like Judith Schaechter, Eric McDade, Franklin Einspruch, Samantha Simpson, Gerard Brown, Sid Sachs and others. Below is a sample a short back and forth about nostalgia and its meaning for contemporary art.] And now a word about something old Post by Gerard Brown Originally published on July 19, 2003 This has nothing to do with anything y’all have been talking about, as interesting as it all has ... More » »
Primordial and meditative – Tacita Dean’s film JG at Arcadia University Art Gallery
It’s Tacita Dean season in Philadelphia. With her six films of Merce Cunningham performing a John Cage piece, STILLNESS, at the Fabric Workshop and Museum and the debut of her new film JG at Arcadia University Art Gallery, the British-born, Berlin-based artist and champion of 16mm filmmaking makes her case for the old school methods in a pithy and beautiful work. JG could be the poster child for the slow film movement, if there was one. The 26 1/2 minute meditation on landscape, time and death and life in the natural world, unfolds like time itself, speeding up or slowing ... More » »
Barefoot Artist Lily Yeh’s new documentary movie due out this year
Note: this article was written as part of Art Attack, the Philadelphia Daily News-Drexel University arts writing partnership, which recently ended before this story was published. Born in China in 1941, artist Lily Yeh experienced first-hand the ravages of that country’s civil war when her family became refugees, fleeing to Taiwan as the communists took over. That personal story and the story of Yeh’s global art activism with communities from North Philadelphia to Rwanda and China is the subject of a new documentary film, The Barefoot Artist, now in post-production and ready for viewing later this year. Co-directed by Yeh’s ... More » »
artblog’s origins in 2003 – The Wood Turning Center and the PMA gift shop
[Dear Readers, in our tenth anniversary year we will be re-visiting some of our early posts, bringing you interesting information from artblog's vast archive of published reviews, news and features. Below are two posts from June, 2003.] Inner Visions Originally published by Libby June 12, 2003 The power of internal secrets, and drawers filled with sacred treasures and scientific marvels emanate from the pieces in “Cabinets of Curiosities” at the Wood Turning Center. These finely crafted cabinets are not so much furniture as curiosities in and of themselves, with their secret spaces already filled, and their public faces allusive and ... More » »
Art for the public and for the youth at the new Juvenile Justice Services Center
The new Juvenile Justice Services Center in West Philadelphia was dedicated last month and I got a tour recently of the building from Dave Kyu of the Office of Arts Culture and the Creative Economy. While the finishing touches were still being put on the facility (no residents or staffers had arrived at that point), the Percent for Art projects by Sarah McEneaney and Leroy Johnson are installed and look fine. McEneaney’s painting, Philadelphia City of Parks, 2012, is a birds’ eye view of Philadelphia’s vast array of parklands. The artist visited ten parks, all with her sidekick Trixie, and ... More » »
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