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Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz visit the Art on Paper Fair in New York and report on good booth presentations by Philadelphia Galleries like Stanek, Commonweal and Bertrand Productions — and by Billy Dufala’s project curated by Nato Thompson and presented by Fleisher Ollman Gallery. Commonweal’s booth showcases drawings by Anne Minich, and the booth was a hit with Hyperallergic and the Art Newspaper. Take a little trip into the art fair with the photos and fresh commentary. You will enjoy it!
Read MoreLauren Whearty interviews members of the artist run space, Fjord, now celebrating their 10th year in operation. Members have changed through the years and so have their rented gallery space — in separate locations in the Kensington/Frenkford area.
Read MoreMiles Orvell says the show at Cherry Street Pier with works by Laurence Salzmann reveal a wide-ranging body of works, from ethnographic and documentary photographs from the artist’s anthropological visits in Romania, Peru and elsewhere, to his more abstract photographs that weave together landscape and suggestions of the human presence.
Read MoreSharon Garbe spends time with Glen Foerd Artist in Residence, Sarah Peoples, and writes about Peoples’s theatrical tableaux on the wooded and grassy grounds outside the mansion.
Read MoreOur new contributor, Ruth Wolf, has been thinking about and looking at AI art, and reading the book, “Your Brain on Art.” She brings her thoughts together on both topics in this post. Enjoy!
Read MoreKate Brock interviews artist Jane Irish days before new exhibition Eureka: New Works by Jane Irish opening at Locks Gallery. They speak about Vietnam War Veterans Against War, Edgar Allen Poe, and Artist’s roles for the future. Read the interview then see the exhibition and share what you think with us!
Read MoreI met with five members of Grizzly Grizzly on Zoom, at the time when they had just deinstalled the show by David Herbert and were prepping the next exhibit, Freed from Necessity, a two-person show featuring the work of Philadelphia-based sculptor Matthew Speedy and interdisciplinary artist Halo Lahnert. Grizzly members Erin Boyle, Amy Hicks, Diedra Krieger, Connor Longo and Jayne Struble participated in the conversation.
Read MoreSharon Garbe sees a live garden gnome in action at Glen Foerd. As portrayed by 2023 Performance Artist in Residence at the historic mansion, Alex Tatarsky’s fictitious gnome is punny, funny, morose, musical and politically awake to their plight as a working class anomaly in the garden of a mansion.
Read MoreLane Timothy Speidel is an artist and writer, currently showing work at Data Nation at the National Liberty Museum. They uncover the promising uses of AI, for accessibility and representation, for underrepresented peoples. They also give warning about AI being used in exploitative ways, ultimately saying that in the art sphere it could never “replace” the artist.
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