November 13, 2024 by Ryan deRoche and Roberta

Midweek News, Temple Glass is 50, Black Like That, Nosebleed in print, Frances Beaver, Closer Together, Coronation Drag King, Heather Cox Richardson and more

March 11, 2022 by Roberta

Kristal Sotomayor on ‘Expanding Sanctuary,’ an Added Velocity Spotlight Interview

Kristal Sotomayor is the subject of our fifth and final Added Velocity 2021-2022 spotlight interview series! Her project “Expanding Sanctuary” was first funded through Velocity Fund in 2020, and now with $15,000 in additional funding through Added Velocity, she will further her 26-minute documentary “about the campaign to end the sharing of the police database with Immigration and Customs Enforcement led by Juntos and the Latinx immigrant community in South Philly.” Learn more below!

September 10, 2021 by Deborah Krieger

Netflix series ‘This is a Robbery’ about Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art heist is sluggish, overlong, and fails to deliver a great story

Deborah Krieger indulges her “Gardner Fever” and reviews ‘This is a Robbery,’ Netflix’s documentary series on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist of 1990 that stole a Vermeer, Rembrandt and other works. Deborah says Netflix’s decision to ride the “true crime format” wave was a disservice to the Gardner museum story, and as a result it was overly long and overly dramatic.

May 28, 2021 by reek bell, Morgan Nitz and Roberta

Artblog previews Philadelphia Latino Film Fest’s 10th year festival, a conversation

Now in its 10th year of programming, the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival provides a great roundup of documentaries, narrative films and shorts. In this 48-minute podcast, our film reviewer, reek bell joins Morgan and Roberta to discuss some of the selections they all watched. The festival is online – ticket information is in the post.

January 29, 2021 by Roberta

‘Andy Can You Hear Us?’ Madelyn Roehrig’s book archives her community project with Warhol

Roberta, a participant in the “Andy Can You Hear Us” project, reviews the first volume of Madelyn Roehrig’s “Andy Can You Hear Us? – Communing with Andy Warhol at His Gravesite.” We love this whimsical and serious project and all that Roberta has to say about it!

September 30, 2020 by Susan Isaacs

Dan Keplinger talks about art, his life-long activism and ‘King Gimp’ his Oscar-winning movie

Susan Isaacs interviews Dan Keplinger, her former student and the subject and co-creator of the film “King Gimp,” which observes Dan’s life as an artist with Cerebral Palsy.

August 3, 2020 by reek bell

The theme is Community, Four films on intimacy, vulnerability

Artblog contributor reek bell rounds up four films for the month of August. This month’s theme is community, in all of its complexity. As reek says below, “Community can break your heart, community can feed you, clothe you, house you, love you, and leave you.”

July 30, 2019 by Oli Knowles

Socialist Grocery