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May 6, 2020 by reek bell

The theme is Vengeance, Three films for releasing rage, pursuing justice

Artblog’s film contributor reek bell rounds up three films for the month of May. The theme? Vengeance.

May 3, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Art exploited as propaganda after outbreak of bubonic plague in Jaffa in 1799

In the second post in a new series, “Art Following Epidemics,” Andrea Kirsh explores a propaganda painting commissioned by Napoleon during the bubonic plague.

April 30, 2020 by Beth Heinly

The 3:00 Book

April 29, 2020 by Dereck Stafford Mangus

On Dwelling, Anatomy and Architecture during Coronavirus

Dereck Mangus muses on the many different ways through time that the language of bodies and architecture have mirrored each other, and asks us to consider how our COVID-19 confinement has suddenly made us “strangers in a familiar land.”

April 28, 2020 by Andrea Kirsh

Il Redentore, a post-plague church in Venice

In a new series “Art following epidemics” triggered by thoughts during the COVID-19 pandemic, Andrea Kirsh refers back to her field of Art History to examine art made during or after other epidemics.

April 24, 2020 by Mandy Palasik

What feminist artist Natalia LL’s introspective work can teach us about social distancing

In this time of social distancing, Artblog’s Mandy Palasik reflects on the importance of feminist art pioneer Natalia LL’s controversial work.

April 23, 2020 by Beth Heinly

The 3:00 Book

April 23, 2020 by Naveena Vijayan

Sarah K Khan’s updates of resistance to Medieval Indian cookbook illustrations at Twelve Gates Arts

Naveena Vijayan interviews Sarah Khan about her exhibition, Undisciplined Pleasures: Vigilant Defiance at Twelve Gates Arts, which is now online due to COVID-19.

April 22, 2020 by guest writer

Artful humanism, a critical and personal tribute to Judy Gelles

Artblog guest writer Martin Rosenberg pays tribute to the late Judy Gelles, accomplished and beloved Philadelphia photographer and creator of “The Fourth Grade Project.”

April 20, 2020 by Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz

What’s next? Visual Arts on the downside of the Covid-19 curve

Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz co-author an essay about the aftermath of the Covid-19 closures on the arts community, and speculate on possible alternative models.

April 15, 2020 by Beth Heinly

The 3:00 Book

April 15, 2020 by Wit López

Curator Close-up, Lenise Logan

Wit interviews curator and philanthropist Lenise Logan about the work she does globally in the arts. Read further to learn more about Lenise’s global practice and how being laid off was the catalyst she needed to begin her international career.

April 13, 2020 by Natalie Sandstrom

A view from inside the closed museum system

Natalie Sandstrom shares her thoughts on the current state of being an arts administrator as institutions shutter their brick-and-mortar locations due to COVID-19.

April 13, 2020 by Oli Knowles

Socialist Grocery