With our reviews, we lead the discussion about what is valuable and why.
Our writing team covers exhibitions and performances in Philadelphia and elsewhere. We also cover books and movies. We look, take notes, ask questions and listen. We take pictures, make video and audio recordings. We think about what we see and have opinions. And we write our hearts out, every day.
Andrea Kirsh sees a show of works in homage to Yard Art, those personal outdoor installations, some with religious figurines, or ceramic gnomes or plastic deer or pink flamingos, that people put into their personal outside space.
Read MoreArtblog’s new contributor, Alicia Link, sees an exhibit at AUTOMAT that raises thoughts about the weight of things, emotional, physical and even institutional, calling attention to the fact that the five artists in the exhibit, who are very involved in the Philadelphia arts community, have also been faculty, staff or guest critics at PAFA, whose weighty decision to close their degree programs left many reeling.
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh sees an exhibit by Nancy Hellebrand at The Print Center and found the exhibit, “beautiful and surprising, revealing and provocative, and likely to resonate in memory long after viewing it.”
Read MoreIn her review of Marianne Bernstein’s new photo book, ‘Theatre of the Everyday,’ Sharon Garbe comments that the book is a tasteful venue for the photographer’s works. She speculates on the book’s title, declaring that perhaps “Bernstein’s reference to the theater is a declaration of photography’s artifice, its subjectivity.”
Read MoreSharon Garbe sees the sculptural installations in the exhibit, “In Pursuit: Artists’ Perspectives on a Nation,” and welcomes the works that are both political and personal that critique the American presence in the geo-political universe.
Read MoreRuth Wolf sees an exhibit at Rosemont College’s Patricia M. Nugent Gallery and talks about how the works of Christine Stoughton and Anne Marble are in synchronicity. Wolf says the show (recently closed) was “an intimate, serene, introspective world where ephemera is presented in all it simply-complex splendor.”
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