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First Friday Art Safaris coming soon! Sponsored by Knight Foundation and you!

We’re gonna do something really great with our new Knight Arts Challenge grant of $7,000 (plus an equal amount in matching funds–still to be raised)! artblog will help culture lovers explore the far-flung galleries and experimental spaces with our First Friday Art Safaris, guided tours by van to where so much of Philadelphia’s most exciting art lives. The two of us will lead the tours into the galleries. The safaris will start in the spring of 2012 and span four consecutive First Fridays.

News from our corporate headquarters

You may call us TheArtblog, Inc now.  It’s our official corporate title in the state of Pennsylvania.  Roberta is President and Libby is CEO of our new (soon-to-be) non-profit.  Here are the officers posing with their briefcases. We haven’t gone out to buy our power suits yet. : ) : )

Wilmington happenings–New! and baseball

There’s a confluence of two shows of note now up in Wilmington. I regard that as an occasion to say, here’s a good time to get down there. One is the New! annual juried show at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts (to July 25) and one is the Rules for Staying Young, a baseball themed show (to May 30) at the New Wilmington Art Association‘s current venue, 4 W. 5th St., Wilmington. I haven’t seen the latter, and Roberta juried the former, so there’s only so much I can say about the shows in all fairness. But surely ... More » »

Artist-friendly Wilmington, part 2

This is part 2 of a story about contemporary art and artists in Wilmington. After my tour of the new subsidized housing for artists at Shipley Lofts (great windows), I took some pictures of the changes going on nearby, including David Bromberg’s violin shop directly across from Delaware College of Art and Design (DCAD) and a WXPN makeover of the Queen Theater, another venue being built for World Cafe concerts in Wilmington.

Art Basel Miami Beach and Associated Art in Miami

This was the fifth time I’d gone to ABMB (Art Basel Miami Beach) and the multi-ring circus that includes the peripheral art fairs, local museums, collectors who run private museum spaces, temporary public projects and various lectures, performances, film showings and parties. I decided to take it easy and be guided by the interests of several friends who were also in Miami for the events, spending two days with tv news producer, Jake Haselkorn, who’s spent the past 20 years covering Asia and my good friend, Berta Sichel, Director of the Film Department at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, as ... More » »