In 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.”
Read MoreOur 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.
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