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March 9, 2016 by Tina Plokarz

Rodney McMillian’s sinister The Black Show at the ICA

The Black Show makes me think about José Saramago’s epic novel “Blindness” (1997), in which blindness invokes darkness, oscillating between sociopolitical misconception and human malice. “I don’t think we did go blind,” reflects one of Saramago’s figures at the end.

March 8, 2016 by Roberta

Renegade’s Beowolf at Mt. Moriah, Marta Sanchez’s Cascarones at PHL, Bruce Hoffman curates political at Fuller Craft, FJORD is back, Jayson Musson, 12th Meyer show at MLAC, Turrell’s Skyspace, Plus Mega-Opportunities list

Don’t miss The Review Show LIVE, this Thursday, March 10, 6PM – 7:30 PM at the Galleries at Moore. Join Artblog, The St. Claire and Moore Galleries for LIVE Art Reviews of 3 exhibitions – Rodney McMillian at ICA, Pepon Osorio’s reForm at Temple Contemporary and Ian Etter and Usha Farey at Practice. Panelists are Walter Robinson, Martin Peeves, Kelsey Halliday Johnson with Suzanne Seesman, moderator

March 6, 2016 by Anna Marie Gibertini

Helen Levitt’s street photography at Everson Museum of Art

Levitt’s work typifies the inner world of a person utterly and easily delighted with life—the lives of others, of objects, of despondent and celebratory moments. Her photographs portray a sensitive and honest world unclouded by the politics or social mores of her time.

March 4, 2016 by Peter Crimmins

Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere at the ICA

The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania has given over its second-floor galleries to the New York art team Valerie Tevere and Angel Nevarez. One of the galleries is simply a radio on a table. It plays an original radio play the duo wrote: a science fiction story about voice recognition technology.

March 2, 2016 by Jennifer Zarro

Theodore Harris on Artblog Radio

Harris is not afraid to investigate and offer in his collages and other artworks a new version of our national and cultural history, one which often illustrates a confounding unfairness we have all inherited.

March 1, 2016 by Roberta

Schomburg seminar at Taller Puertorriqueno, Lansdowne Arts Board makes waves, New Penn Design Dean, PMA gets big Dietrich collection, Plus Sid Sachs, Judith Schaechter, Pop Up Museum on Black Women’s Lives, Sad news of Joe Tiberino and Vaughn Stubbs, Plus Opportunities!

Congratulations, Taller Puertorriqueno on your 20th Annual Arturo A. Schomburg Symposium! A standing room only crowd turned out for talk about Afrolatinidad identity and issues related to indigeneity, racial identity and immigration/deportation. More forthcoming in a report.

February 29, 2016 by Michael Lieberman

Leroy Johnson’s fading neighborhoods at the University City Arts League

Although the theme is hardly predominant, Johnson’s work clearly touches upon the political history of African-Americans in this country. The work includes poignant scenes of death and despair in the African-American community, and suggestions of the oppression that the community has been subjected to.

February 26, 2016 by Roberta

The first LIVE Review Panel of 2016 – March 10 at Galleries at Moore!

Come participate in this LIVE event, as our distinguished panel of experts discuss and review three Philadelphia art exhibitions – from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Temple Contemporary and Practice Gallery (see below for more and links to those venues). This event is scheduled in conjunction with Walter Robinson: Paintings and Other Indulgences, featuring the work of the New York based artist and critic and on view at The Galleries at Moore through March 12, 2016.