Our features add context, depth and breadth to our reviews and make our community more connected to each other and to the art world.
We go to International Art Fairs and Biennials and cover important gallery and museum shows outside Philadelphia. We provide a platform for opinions in our Reader Advisor and essay features. We report on studio visits and public lectures by visiting artists. Our podcasts humanize art by introducing the voice of the artist. In 2014 we began commissioning original works by amazing Philadelphia comics artists. We are proud to support these artists! And we love providing a platform for their smart humor.
Lauren Whearty interviews Temple University graduate student Teaching Assistant Molly Burt-Westvig to discuss her abstract paintings and works on paper, which merge digital and real materials and are enhanced with surprising additions like chalk, steel, ground glass and LED’s.
Read MoreIn this feature by Clayton Campbell, we’re introduced (and for some of us re-introduced) to Stuart Netsky, a seminal Philadelphia artist and arts educator who has shown widely in the City, although not recently.
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh visits two Swiss museums recently, in Bern and Zürich, both of which presented exhibitions documenting their work with Swiss collectors and questioning how to handle works that entered their collections under ethically-questionable circumstances.
Read MoreLogan Cryer talks with artist and Tyler School of Art and Architecture professor Jesse Harrod, about the Canadian artist’s journey as an artist, from Nova Scotia, to Chicago, to Virginia and Philadelphia.
Read MoreElizabeth Johnson talks with Executive Artistic Director Genevieve Coutroubis at the Center for Emerging Visual Artists to learn more about the organization’s structure and programs.
Read MoreJulia Marsh talks with Temple Contemporary Director of Public Programs and Exhibitions, Jova Lynne, to find out the artist-curator’s plans for the gallery and programs.
Read MoreArtist Cheryl Harper writes an op ed piece in response to statements made in an Artblog podcast of Aug. 22, 2022, in which the exhibition, ‘What Are We Claiming?”, featuring Harper and rod jones ii, is discussed by jones ii and podcast host, Logan Cryer.
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