Our features added context, depth and breadth to our reviews and made our community more connected to each other and to the art world. (Artblog 2003-2025)
We provided a platform for opinions. Our own and others. We reported on studio visits and public lectures by visiting artists. Our podcasts humanized art by introducing the voice of the artist. In 2014 we began commissioning original comics by amazing Philadelphia comics artists. We are proud to support these artists! And we love providing a platform for their smart humor.
Artblog contributors, Lane Timothy Speidel and Logan Cryer get into a lively conversation via email about the practice of art writing, its importance, and their thoughts about Artblog closing.
Read MoreOli Knowles, artist and comics artist, sits down with Gina Dawson and Tom Marquet to talk about their shop, Partners and Son, which opened in 2020 after they moved to Philadelphia, and which specializes on comics, zines, graphic novels and related materials, along with art made by comic artists, which is hung on a dedicated gallery wall in the shop.
Read MoreWe are delighted to provide you with Sarah Kaizar’s ‘AT feed,’ a humorous look at today’s climate change media postings online. Made with the magic assistance of AI, Sarah requests ChatGPT to write one article from many headlines she feeds it. The resulting article, is it an AI hallucination? Is it for real? Who and what do we trust? These and other questions are raised by the project, which will run bi-weekly on Artblog. Send your feedback to us at editor@theartblog.org.
Read MoreBrigid O’Brien interviews Phoebe Bachman about her creation, The People’s Budget Office, a community art project established to help raise awareness of the Philadelphia budget and how the departments that serve the city (and its citizens) are funded. The PBO Operates for part of the year from a shipping container in Love Park that is open to the public and distributes pamphlets and collects information from people about their city budget priorities.
Read MoreRuth Wolf expresses consternation and concern about what’s going on in the world today. She is worried “about the safety and the direction of our country.” She asks what role can and does art play and answers that art is an act of resistance. Her exhortation at the end is a call to make art, “Inhale courage, exhale art.” We agree.
Read MoreJanyce Denise Glasper bids a fond farewell to Artblog. The artist and writer has been part of the Artblog team for eight years, and in that time has written 22 reviews and features that have expanded enormously our coverage of Black women artists and creatives.
Read More
