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, Artblog’s art book aficionado, reviews two great books for reading and looking: Lorraine O’Grady’s “Writing in Space 1973- 2019” and “Gladys Nilsson Honk!; Fifty Years of Painting” published by Matthew Marks Gallery and Garth Greenan Gallery. This is a great place to start your 2021 New Year’s Resolution to read more. Happy New Year!
Read MoreMichael Lieberman reviews Slought’s exhibition ‘Atlas of Affects,’ an open-call archive project about personal experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreNew Artblog contributor, Corey Qureshi, pens a poetic review of the beloved Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s new book, “Wild Wild Wild West / Haunting of the Seahorse.”
Read MorePatrick Coue visits the Gilbert Lewis exhibitions at Woodmere Art Museum, Kapp Kapp, and William Way (virtual). Having posed for Gilbert Lewis himself, he has personal insight on what it feels like to be in the shoes of Lewis’s many subjects.
Read MoreMickalene Thomas’s installation “A Moment’s Pleasure” re-opens at The Baltimore Museum of Art with even more relevance to the community.
Read MoreAndrea Kirsh reviews Maya Stovall’s “Liquor Store Theatre” and Rotland Press Original, “The N-Word; Paintings by Peter Williams,” art books that examine racism and systemic inequality in Detroit and beyond.
Read MoreThe new book, Hotel Chelsea: Living in the Last Bohemian Haven by Colin Miller and Ray Mock tells of current residents and their struggle with the Hotel’s developer-owners and explores the history of this artistic incubator-cum-living space.
Read MoreNaveena reviews Timothy C. Winegard’s book “The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator,” which explains how mosquitos have affected both health and history.
Read MoreMichael Lieberman reviews Pulitzer Prize winner Inga Saffron’s ‘Becoming Philadelphia.’ The book, a selection of the architecture critic’s Inquirer articles from the past 20 years, tells an intricate story about Philly’s 10 year tax abatement and construction boom– both its part in revitalizing the city, and its part in harmful gentrification and increased inequality.
Read MoreMichael Lieberman virtually tours Rowan University Art Gallery’s “Tracing Origins,” artwork by Colette Fu, Claes Gabriel, and Hiro Sakaguchi.
Read MoreAt a time of deep isolation like ours, letter writing offers a breakthrough to a special closeness as shown in the book “Artists’ Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney.”
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