Reviews

November 27, 2019 by Andrea Kirsh

And here you are, with Part 2 of Andrea Kirsh’s annual roundup of the best in art books! Get going on your holiday shopping by picking up one of these books, and don’t forget to check out Part 1 if you missed it!

November 27, 2019 by Andrea Kirsh

Books for holiday giving, Part 1

Part 1 of Andrea Kirsh’s annual roundup of the best in art books is here just in time for Thanksgiving! Don’t forget to check out Part 2!

November 23, 2019 by Susan Isaacs

A tale of two biennales, witnessing global art in Venice and Jerusalem

Artblog contributor Susan Isaacs shares her experiences with traveling to the biennales in Venice and Jerusalem.

November 13, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

Moore College of Art and Design honors the work of three visionaries

Artblog contributor Natalie visits Moore College of Art and Design to see the exhibition “Visionary Women.”

October 28, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

The terrible and the beautiful, Lugo and Tomezsko’s ‘Wynorrific Times’ at Wexler Gallery

Natalie Sandstrom visits Wexler Gallery to review a collaborative exhibition featuring new works by artists Roberto Lugo and Mat Tomezsko.

October 26, 2019 by Alex Smith

A shrine to Black Divinity, Temple of Sirius at Da Vinci Art Alliance

Alex Smith reviews Malachi Lily’s project, The Temple of Sirius, currently on display at the Da Vinci Art Alliance.

October 25, 2019 by Wit López

A Complex Composition, Bennett and Phillips’s new installation ‘Spitting Distance’ at Napoleon gallery

Wit visits new exhibition, “Spitting Distance” by Keenan Bennett and Heather Raquel Phillips at Napolean gallery, closing on Sunday, October 27, 2019.

October 22, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

New exhibition ‘Back and Song’ at Girard College explores medical discrimination and healing

Natalie Sandstrom reviews ‘Back and Song,’ an exhibition by filmmakers Elissa Blount Moorhead and Bradford Young installed at Girard College.

October 18, 2019 by Michael Carroll

Gabe Martinez’s ‘Bound to the Past,’ a revisiting of 1981, at Marginal Utility

Michael Carroll reviews the latest exhibition by local artistic genius “Gabriel Martinez: Bound to the Past.” The display is centered on the summer of 1981 and the importance of that point in time as a cultural and political moment in LGBTQ+ history. Martinez’s work will be on display through October 20, 2019 at Marginal Utility gallery located at 319 N. 11th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107.

October 11, 2019 by Alex Smith

How Are We Free? Lifelines Project pairs art by people in prison and artists outside, at Vox Populi

Alex reviews the project-based show at Vox Populi, “How Are We Free?” at Vox Populi through Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019.

October 9, 2019 by Natalie Sandstrom

Expanding ‘outside,’ Lisi Raskin and Jesse Harrod’s ‘Mending and Repair in Response’ at Fleisher Ollman

Natalie Sandstrom visits “Mending and Repair in Response,” an exhibition of works by Lisi Raskin and Jesse Harrod at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery. The show closes on October 26th, 2019.

October 2, 2019 by Sarah Kim

Mythological, entrancing and immersive, Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez’s ‘Feet First’ at Spillway Collective

Sarah Kim writes an enthusiastic review of “Feet First”, an interactive video, painting, and sculpture installation by Joseph Lazaro Rodriguez at Spillway Collective, closing on October 5th, 2019.

October 1, 2019 by Michael Lieberman

Richard Kagan’s nocturnal ‘photo-graphs’, meditations on ethereal Kyoto

Michael Leiberman visits Richard Kagan’s “Blurred Time: Sacred Places in Kyoto”, at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral. You can visit the show on weekdays between 11 AM and 1 PM, or by appointment, until October 27th, 2019.

September 26, 2019 by Levi Bentley

The buildup of a fine instrument, on Thomas Devaney’s ‘You Are the Battery’

Levi Bentley reviews “You Are the Battery,” a book of poetry by Thomas Devaney. Read further to learn why Bentley compares Devaney’s written work to the sculptures of Cecilia Vicuña.