Our new contributor Cindy Stockton Moore reviews two activism-fueled exhibits in West Philadelphia, one on climate devastation, at the Annenberg School on the Penn campus, and one on gun violence, at the University City Science Center. She notes that both exhibits appeared outside a gallery setting.
Read MoreMartina Merlo sees an exhibition at the Fabric Workshop and Museum that moves them, and while the installation takes the form of a game, it is purpose-driven with a message about caregiving and receiving.
Read MoreVriddhi Vinay visits ‘Power/Play’ at Twelve Gates Arts and says the multi-media exhibit is “as aesthetically flamboyant as it is educationally daring.”
Read MoreJanyce Glasper reads a book she calls “unputdownable.” The book is a novel and its story, set in Italy, compares the lives of a Victorian-era Black artist (lightly based on that of Edmonia Lewis), and a contemporary Somali artist researching the earlier artist’s life.
Read MoreWe’re so happy to have music coverage on Artblog! Thank you, Alex Smith! Smith writes with the passion and insights of a music maker (which he is) and the wordsmithing of an artist and writer who loves sharing thoughts, ideas and commentary.
Read MoreLogan Cryer writes about Jayson Musson’s exhibit of new quilted wall works at Fleisher-Ollman, and says their materiality must be considered. With the use of many visible stitched lines factoring into the pieces and their reference to Gees Bend quilts to be noted, the work raises questions.
Read MoreCorey Qureshi sees the solo exhibition of Erin Murray at Peep Projects and comments on the technique of letting the design wrap the frame of the work so it continues the theme “beyond the artifice of structures.”
Read MoreSusan Isaacs sees a 50-year retrospective of works by Joyce J. Scott at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Scott is a Macarthur Award-winning artist, whose works deal with political themes of social justice
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